1.
Laws relative to the Embargo. Without name of place or printer [
1808].
8vo. 10 leaves.
Sabin 22413.
Johnston 37.
Contains the acts of December 22, 1807, January 9, 1808, March 12, 1808, April 25, 1808, April 22, 1808, all
Approved, Th: Jefferson.
On the last page is pasted down a slip with a Circular signed by Albert Gallatin, dated from the Treasury Department, May 11, and tipped in is another dated May 20th, with the signature cut away.
With regard to the first mentioned act, on the day of its passing, December 22, 1807, Jefferson wrote to Thomas Mann Randolph:
“
I have this moment signed the bill for a general embargo on all
American
vessels. it passed by 82. against 44. the latter were one half Federalists, ½ of the little band, the other fourth of republicans
happening to take up mistaken views of the subject . . .
”
Inserted between this and the next tract is
An Act to enforce and make more effectual an act, entitled, “An act laying an embargo on all ships and vessels, in the ports
and harbors of the United States,” and the several acts supplementary thereto.
Without name of place or printer,
1809.
Folio. 2 leaves, folded to 8vo. size.
Approved, January 9, 1809. Th: Jefferson.
Paragraph headings written in ink in the margins by Jefferson.
Inserted between the two leaves is a Circular from the Treasury Department, January 14, 1809. 4to. 2 leaves, the signature of the Secretary of the Treasury (Gallatin)
cut away.
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2.
Resolutions of the Democratic Meeting of Delegates of Washington County; and the Address of the Committee appointed by that
Meeting.
Washington: (Pa.) Printed by
Brown & Sample. n.d. [
1808.]
Sm. 8vo. 10 leaves.
Sabin 102011.
Not in Johnston.
The meeting was held on July 26, 1808; the address signed by Thomas Patterson, Alexander Murdoch, William Ramsey, Thomas Acheson.
In support of the Embargo. Contains several mentions of Jefferson.
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3. PICKERING,
Timothy.
A Letter from the Hon. Timothy Pickering, a Senator of the United States from the State of Massachusetts, exhibiting to his constituents a view of the imminent danger
of an unnecessary and ruinous war. Addressed to His Excellency James Sullivan, Governor of the Said State.
Boston: Printed by
Greenough and
Stebbins,
1808.
First Edition. 8vo. 8 leaves; the address To the Reader dated from Boston, March 9th, 1808.
Sabin 62652.
Johnston, page 36.
An Anti-Embargo letter, dated from Washington, February 16, 1808.
Inserted after the title-page is an AL (anonymous) reading:
To the President of the United States.
Read the within. Who are the enemies of this County? [sic]
Its Rulers. What do they deserve? Hell. Avaunt thou Tyrant. If thou canst not be saved by reformation go to hell as thy proper
abode. ‘O thou disturber of the peace--thou destroyer of thousands.’ what hast thou done? Ask Bonaparte: Ask the Devil. Thy
grave will not secure thy bones from burning.
A Citizen among ten thousand
NB. We shall have a Civil War soon.
Timothy Pickering, 1745-1829, a Federalist, succeeded Edmund Randolph as Secretary of State in 1795, but was removed from that office in 1800.
He opposed most of the policies of Jefferson and Madison.
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