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Austin’s National Barley-cake.
AUSTIN,
David.
The National “Barley Cake,” or, the “Rock of Offence” into a “Glorious Holy Mountain:” in Discouses and Letters. By David Austin, A.M. Late Resident Minister at Elizabeth-Town . . . Submitted.
Washington, District of Columbia:
Way and
Groff,
January 14, A. D. 1802.
First Edition. 8vo. 40 leaves collating in fours.
Sabin 2404.
Dexter IV, page 95, no. 9.
Sprague II, 195.
This pamphlet having been published on January 14, it is probably the publication referred to in a letter from the author
to Jefferson, written from Washington on January 29, 1802: “You was obligingly disposed to say, that tho’ you did not subscribe, you would receive a copy of the public
a. in hand.--The Boy waits on the President with two copies--The price is
fifty cents each. If the President accepts the two, it will be the more obliging: as I have little other means of living but from the
avails of the truth I publish to the world.
"If the President could accomodate me to the situation of Librarian, it would be a favor long to be remembered.”
David Austin, 1759-1831, Congregational clergyman. This work contains five discourses written and delivered in Washington and nine letters
addressed to individuals and Congress.
The above quoted letter was not Austin’s first application for the position of Librarian to Congress, and on January 21, only
eight days before his letter to Jefferson, the latter had written to him with regard to that and to his predictions on the
millenium: “
Having daily to read voluminous letters & documents for the dispatch of the public affairs, your letters have consumed a portion
of my time which duty forbids me any longer to devote to them. your talents as a divine I hold in due respect. but of their
employment in a political line I must be allowed to judge for myself, bound as I am to select those which I suppose best suited
to the public service. of the special communications to you of his will by the supreme being, I can have no evidence, and
therefore must ascribe your belief of them to the false perceptions of your mind. it is with real pain that I find myself
at length obliged to say in cogent terms what I had hoped you would have inferred from my silence.
”
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The Witness bearer.
The Witness bearer. Without name of place or printer, n.d. [
1801.]
8vo. 17 leaves including a half-title, but no title. At the end:
Written by an American born, who must subscribe himself, A Stranger and Pilgrim. America, March 1801; an added paragraph is signed
The Stranger.
Not in Halkett and Laing.
Not in Sabin.
Presentation copy from the author who has written on the half-title:
Thomas Jefferson President of the United States of America.
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Minutes of the Presbyterian church in the U.S. 1803.
Extracts from the Minutes of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America; A. D. 1803.
Philadelphia: from the press of (the late)
R. Aitken;
Jane Aitken,
1803.
8vo. 18 leaves collating in fours; on the blank page of C
2 verso is written a list of the Trustees of the General Assembly Funds, 10 names headed by Elias Boudinot.
Sent to Jefferson by David Jackson who wrote from Philadelphia on August 6, 1803: “I enclose you for your perusal, & satisfaction, the printed Extracts of the Gen
l. Assembly of the ”
