In the Appendix, in a letter from Bedinger to Smith, February 15, 1808, page 30, Exhibit XXXXI:
. . . The Navy Department is now entirely freed from every particle of democracy; and you, sir, have certainly the credit
of being very happy in your selections. Excellent federalists all! Of whose devotion and attachment to Mr. Jefferson, (both
personally and politically) much might be said . . .
Jefferson is also mentioned several times in a letter from Bedinger to Thomas Newton, February 21, 1808, page 31, Exhibit
XXXIII.
Daniel Bedinger, Navy agent at Norfolk, sent copies of certain correspondence between him and Robert Smith to Thomas Jefferson and these are now in the Jefferson Papers in the
Library of Congress.
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13. OLMSTED,
Gideon.
Sundry Documents, relative to the Claim of Gideon Olmsted, against the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Respectfully submitted to the Consideration of the Members of the Legislature
of Said Commonwealth.
Philadelphia: Printed by
Robert Cochran,
1808.
First Edition. 8vo. 14 leaves and one folded leaf inserted.
This edition not in Sabin.
Sent to Jefferson by Olmsted, who wrote from Washington on March 7, 1808 [spelling unedited]: “I take the Liberty to inclose a pholphlet as it may be devirting to read at a leasure hour in looking back 30, years at the
tyme your Exconely were in Congress I think it might be a pleasure that the Honorable Congress got a long as well as thay
did when the Legislator of one of the states had it in thare power to debar the Congress of the U N States doing justice to
thare Cittizens . . .”
Gideon Olmsted, 1749-1845, mariner, brought suit for prize money against the Commonwealth, the litigation of which lasted over thirty years.
The inserted leaf is dated in ink February 16th 1808.
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14. BURR,
Aaron.
The Examination of Col. Aaron Burr, before the Chief Justice of the United States, upon the Charges of a High Misdemeanor, and of Treason against the United
States; together with the Arguments of Counsel and Opinion of the Judge. To which is added an Appendix, containing the opinion
of the Supreme Court delivered by Chief Justice Marshall, in the case of Bollman and Swartwout.
Richmond: Printed & sold by
S. Grantland,
1807.
8vo. 23 leaves, the last 4 for the Appendix.
Sabin 9426.
Swem 679.
Wandell, page 96.
On the title, in the handwriting of William Waller Hening, is written in ink:
taken by W
m: W: Hening & W
m: Munford
.
Several accounts of the trial of Aaron Burr will be found in this catalogue. In a letter to Charles Clay written on January
11, 1807, Jefferson mentioned that: “
Burr’s enterprize is the most extraordinary since the days of Don Quixot.”
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15. THOMSON,
William.
A Compendious View of the Trial of Aaron Burr, (late Vice-President of the United States), charged with high-treason: together
with biographical sketches of several eminent characters. By William Thomson, attorney at law, Abingdon, Virg.
From the press of
the Holston Intelligencer,
1807.
