First Edition. 8vo. 38 leaves colating in fours; advertisement of
War in Disguise
at the foot of the last page.
Halkett and Laing I, 106.
Sabin 50827.
Rebound in a half-binding.
by Gouverneur Morris written on the title by Jefferson, who has also written his initial T at sig. I. A small manuscript correction by the author on page 38.
Gouverneur Morris, 1752-1816, statesman and diplomat. This work was reprinted in London in the same year. Morris married the sister of Thomas
Mann Randolph.
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Allen’s case of the Olive branch. 2
d. v.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 85, unnumbered [Allen’s case of the Olive Branch, 2d vol. 8vo] Post 24, No. 298.
This work was placed in this chapter by Jefferson, but will be found in chapter 24, in accordance with the Library of Congress 1815 catalogue.
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Cooper’s Opinion on Sentences of foreign courts of Admiralty.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 85. no. 11, as above.
COOPER,
Thomas.
The Opinion of Judge Cooper, on the effect of a sentence of a foreign court of admiralty. Published (with his permission) by Alexander James Dallas.
Philadelphia: Printed for
P. Byrne,
1810.
Law 193
First Edition. 8vo. 44 leaves: The Introduction signed: A. J. Dallas. Philadelphia, 14th May, 1810.
Original half binding. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I. On the title Cooper has written:
Mr Cooper to Mr Jefferson. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Presentation copy from the author, who wrote from Northumberland, May 10, 1810: “. . . While I was in Philadelphia, I printed an Argument which I delivered in the Court of Errors and Appeals, on the Question
how far the Sentence of a foreign Court of Admiralty or Vice admiralty is conclusive evidence between the Insurer and the
Underwriter. I stood alone in that Court; and the decision of the Supreme Court of our own State and of the United States
was against me: but the Bar of Philadelphia, having expressed a frequent wish for my argument, I printed it, and so soon as
Mr Dallas can find time to finish a preface to it, it will be published. When it is I will transmit you a copy . . .”
Jefferson acknowledged the receipt of a copy from Monticello on August 6: “
. . . I thank you for the case of Dempsey v. the Insurers, which I have read with great pleasure, and entire conviction. indeed
it is high time to withdraw all respect from courts acting under the arbitrary orders of governments who avow a total disregard
of those moral rules which have hitherto been acknoleged by nations, and have served to regulate and govern their intercourse.
I should respect just as much the rules of conduct which governed Cartouche or Blackbeard, as those now acted on by France
or England. if your argument is defective in any thing, it is in having paid to the antecedent decisions of the British courts
of Admiralty, the respect of examining them on grounds of reason; and the not having rested the decision at once on the profligacy
of those tribunals, and openly declared against permitting their sentences to be ever more quoted or listened to until those
nations return to the practice of justice, to an acknolegement that there is a moral law which ought to govern mankind, and
by sufficient evidences of contrition for their present flagitiousness, make it safe to recieve them again into the society
of civilised nations . . .
”
On June 27, 1810, Jefferson sent Thomas Cooper’s letter to Joseph Carrington Cabell: “
I inclose you a letter from Judge Cooper of Pensylvania, a political refugee with D
r. Priestley from the
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