“
speeches, who, could they rise from the dead, would not recognise themselves in these speeches. Hume’s method is the correct
one. he says on such occasions that it was argued so
[
and so,]
on one side, and so and so on the other, summing up the propriate reasonings on each side without ascribing them to particular
persons by name. the great value of the rest of Botta’s work, fully compensates this small error of judgment . . .
”
References to Jefferson occur in the text of the work, in connection with the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
Carlo Giuseppe Guglielmo Botta, 1766-1837, Italian historian, eventually became a French citizen.
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account of the internment from the Prison ships by the Wallabout comm
(
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)e.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 24. no. 9, Historical account of the Wallabout, 12mo.
An Account of the Internment of the Remains of 11,500 American Seamen, Soldiers and Citizens, who fell victims to the Cruelties
of the British, on board their prison ships at the Wallabout, during the American Revolution. With a particular Description
of the Grand & Solemn Funeral Procession, which took place on the 26 May, 1808. And an Oration, delivered at the Tomb of the
Patriots, By Benjamin De Witt, M.D., a member of the Tammany Society or Columbian Order. Compiled by the Wallabout Committee.
New-York: Printed by
Frank, White, & Co.,
1808.
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12mo. 48 leaves.
Jefferson’s copy was a presentation from the Wallabout Committee, sent on August 2, 1808, through Samuel Cowdrey, one of the
members, who wrote: “I am directed by the Wall-about Committee, to transmit for your Excellency a Copy of the publication issued by them, on the
subject of their Appointment. This duty I perform with high personal gratification . . .”
Jefferson replied from Monticello on August 9: “
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to m(
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)
Cowdrey and his thanks to himself & the Committee of the Wallabout for the copy of their publication which has come safely
to hand. if the records it contains can inculcate in nations a due regard to humanity even towards their enemies, and the
advantages as well as the duty of lessening the evils of war, a great good will be effected.
”
The book was published by the Tammany Society, which was responsible for the burying in a vault near the Navy Yard of the
martyrs from the
Jersey, the largest of the prison ships at the Wallabout.
Benjamin De Witt, 1774-1819, scientist.
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Ramsay’s life of Washington.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 25. no. 62, as above.
RAMSAY,
David.
The Life of George Washington, Commander in Chief of the Armies of the United States of America, throughout the War which
established their Independence; and First President of the United States. By David Ramsay, M.D. Author of the History of the American Revolution.
New York: Printed by
Hopkins & Seymour, and sold, wholesale and retail, by
Geo. F. Hopkins [and others], sold likewise, wholesale only, by the Proprietor,
E. S. Thomas,
Baltimore,
1807.
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