17.
Debate in the House of Representatives of the Territory of Orleans, on a Memorial to Congress, respecting the Illegal Conduct
of General Wilkinson.
New-Orleans: Printed by
Bradford & Anderson,
1807.
21 leaves, double columns; publisher’s advertisement at the end.
Sabin 53321.
Not in Wandell.
Sent to Jefferson on May 19, 1807, by General Claiborne, the Governor of Louisiana, who wrote: “. . . I inclose you the debate in the House of Representatives on a memorial to Congress.--A greater tissue of falsehood I
will be bold to say never before disgraced the deliberations of a legislative body; the rejection however of the memorial
was grateful to
those, whose feelings it so unjustly lacerated, and whose conduct it so cruelly misrepresented . . .”
The pamphlet has marginal annotations in ink by Claiborne. The first one explains that Edward Livingston was the author of a memorial read at the beginning of
the Debate.
At the end, Claiborne has written:
Note. To correct the various Errors in this pamphlet, & to expose the many falsehoods introduced, it would be necessary to
write a Book. I am unused to Book writing; but when my business permits, I believe, I shall write the volume.
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a. WILKINSON,
James.
Four leaves including the last blank, without name of place or printer,
1807, with copies of the following documents:
A. A letter from
General James Wilkinson to The hon. John Randolph, Washington, December 24th, 1807.
B.
John Randolph to Brigadier Gen. Wilkinson, Dec. 25, 1807.
C. A statement by the Baron de Carondelet to
Thomas Portell, certified by the latter, 1796, 20th Jan. and 27th
June.
D.
A letter from General Wilkinson to Manuel Gayoso de Lemos, 6th of February, 1797.
E. Extract of
a letter signed T. Power, October 24, 1807.
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18. NUGENT, H. P.
A Letter to His Excellency William C. C. Claiborne, Governor of the Territory of Orleans. A Letter to James Brown, Esquire,
Counsellor at Law. A Defence of the Honorable John Rowan and Daniel Clark, Members of Congress, against the Slanders of the
Tergirversant Redacteur of the Courier. By H. P. Nugent.
New-Orleans: Printed for the Author,
1808.
4to. 3 parts in 1. 26 leaves, printed on blue paper; at the end are verses entitled:
A Quibbling Elegy on the Death of the Worshipeul [sic]
Judge Boat.
Sabin 56303.
McMurtrie 121.
Refers to the Batture case. Jefferson is mentioned on page 29:
Upon the whole, the only argument of Mr. Thierri’s, that appears to me to have the least plausibility, is that Mr. Jefferson
(n’avoit pas tardé d’apprécier un homme de cette espece) soon appreciated a man of Mr. Clark’s character. Mr. Jefferson has,
indeed, by his appointments of governor and judges in this territory, proved himself so accute an appraiser of merit, that
I would not have ventured to say a word in defence of my friend Mr. Rowan, had Mr. Jefferson written his name in the book
of reprobation . . .
Claiborne fought a duel with Daniel Clark, and wrote to Jefferson a full account of the circumstances (in the Jefferson Papers in the Library of Congress), followed by printed documents.
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a. [NUGENT, H. P.]
To the Members of the Legislature. [
New-Orleans: Sold by
H. P. Nugent,
1st of March 1808.]
