of May, 1804. By Abraham Bishop. [
New Haven:] Printed for
the General Committee of Republicans. From
Sidney’s Press,
1804.
E331 .B62
8vo. 12 leaves.
Sabin 5596.
Dexter IV, 22, 8.
Begins:
We are not convened to do homage to a tyrant, nor to parade the virtues of a President and Senate for life,
nor to bow before a First Consul, nor to bend the knee before a host of privileged orders; but we have assembled to pay our
annual respects to a President, whom the voice of his country has called to the head of the freest and happiest nation on
earth.
For a biographical note on Bishop see no. 3235.
This pamphlet is largely concerned with the abuses of the Connecticut government. The penultimate paragraph reads:
While we rejoice in the administration of President Jefferson, in the assurance of his re-election, and in the acquisition
of Louisiana, let us look firmly at the obstacles which oppose us, and resolve that another year shall give us occasion of
triumph in the restoration of this state to the constellaion from which it is now a fallen star.
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6. RAMSAY,
David.
An Oration, on the Cession of Louisiana, to the United States, delivered on the 12th May, 1804, in St. Michael’s Church, Charleston,
South-Carolina, at the request of a number of the inhabitants, and published by their desire. By David Ramsay, M.D.
Charleston: Printed by
W. P. Young,
m.dccciv
. [1804.]
E333 .R17
First Edition. 8vo. 14 leaves.
For other works by Ramsay, see the Index.
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J.
[Louisiana tracts continued.
]
ii. 1815 Catalogue, page 105, no. 396, The Case of the Batture at New Orleans, 4to; no. 305, Do. 8vo. 2 v.
The tracts in this collection were used by Jefferson in the suit brought against him by Edward Livingston for the recovery
of his property in the Batture at New Orleans. The volumes were originally bound for Jefferson by Milligan, and two of them
are still in Milligan’s bindings, with a list of the contents of both volumes written by Jefferson on the fly-leaf of the second.
The collection consists of one quarto volume, one unbound and four bound volumes in 8vo. A notation in the working copy of
the Library of Congress 1815 catalogue, used to check the books, reads
3 irregular volumes.
With the exception of his own pamphlet and Livingston’s reply, all these tracts were lent by Jefferson to his attorney, George
Hay, who returned them on January 29, 1812, and appended a list to his covering letter. The manuscript documents concerned in the case were borrowed by Jefferson from the State Department and duly returned by
him.
1. Nine pamphlets bound together in one volume 4to., calf; later labels on the back lettered Miscellaneous / Pamphlets. /
529. / Originally bound for Jefferson by Milligan on March 8, 1809, price .75. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
AC901 .M5 vol. 529
i. [DERBIGNY,
Pierre Auguste Charles Bourguignon.]
Mémoire a Consulter, sur la Réclamation de la Batture, située en face du Faubourg Sainte-Marie de la Nouvelle-Orléans. A la
Nouvelle-Orléans: Chez
Jean Renard,
1807.
4to. 12 leaves, the last a blank,
English and
French text in parallel columns. Signed at the end:
P. Derbigny; dated from New-Orleans August 21, 1807.
McMurtrie 104.
Not in Tinker.
On the title-page Jefferson has written the name of the author,
Derbigny. An inscription in another hand in the upper margin has been partially cut away.
Pierre Auguste Charles Bourguignon Derbigny, 1767-1829, was born in France, which country he left about 1793, and eventually settled in Louisiana where he became a French
colonial official, and later the official interpreter of the American territorial government under Claiborne. He was associated
with Livingston and Moreau de Lislet in the publication of the revised Civil Code of Louisiana. Derbigny was Secretary of
State of Louisiana from 1820 to 1827 and Governor in 1828.
For a Refutation of this
Mémoire see no. 3492.
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