Jefferson sent a copy of Edwards’ letter to James Lyon, now in Carthage, Tenn., with an explanatory covering letter, dated
September 5, and requesting from him a letter: “
bearing testimony to the truth of my never having made to you, or within your knolege or information, any such promise to
yourself, your partner Morse, or any other.
”
James L. Edwards was a newspaper editor in Boston. In 1811 he was the editor of The Scourge and in 1812 of The Satirist. Previously he had edited the North Carolina Journal and the Virginia Mercury.
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xiii. Another newspaper could be the “
Federal Ark
” concerning which John Warner wrote to Jefferson from
Wilmington, Delaware, on March 14, 1803: “I take the liberty to enclose for your perusal a number of the “Federal Ark,” a paper lately removed from
Dover to this place. It is generally believed that no paragraph of a low political nature, more particularly, is ever inserted
in it without the approbation of the Collector of this port; this number may serve as a specimen of the manner in which this
paper is conducted;--perhaps none on the continent, as far as the abilities of
all its editors combined could contrive, has been more filled with misrepresentations and falsehood . . .”
And again on March 16: “As further establishment of the fact stated in my communication of the 14
th Inst, I take the liberty to enclose two more numbers of the “Federal Ark.” I have reason to believe the Collector, perhaps
from the Postmaster of this place, knows that a number of this paper has been sent to you in consequence of which the first
paragraph under the Wilmington head is inserted. The intent is obvious.”
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2. 1831 Catalogue, page 66. no. J. 224, Greenleaf’s Journal, Time Piece, Delaware Gazette, Independent Chronicle, Fenno’s
Gazette, &c. &c., 1797, 1 v. folio.
i.
Greenleaf’s Journal.
[See no. 541 above.]
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ii.
The Time Piece, and Literary Companion.
New York: Printed on Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings at the offices of
P. Freneau &
A. Menut,
1797.
Tri-weekly. Published by
Philip Freneau and
Alexander Menut.
Parsons, page 200.
Brigham, page 695.
Jeffersonian. Established on March 13, 1797. In 1798 the proprietors were
John D. Burk, the author of the
History of Virginia
, and Dr.
James Smith. Burk was arrested under the Alien and Sedition Act but left New York without waiting for the trial and the Time Piece was
discontinued.
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iii.
Delaware Gazette.
[See no. 546 above.]
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iv.
Independent Chronicle.
Boston:
Adams & Larkin,
1797.
[See no. 589.]
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v.
Fenno’s Gazette.
[See no. 542 above.]
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3. 1831 Catalogue, page 66. no. J. 225, Dunlap’s Pennsylvania Packet, June and July 1775; General Advertiser, Nov. and Dec.,
London, 1778; London Evening Post, Nov. 1778, 1 v. folio.
i.
Dunlap’s Pennsylvania Packet, or, The General Advertiser.
Philadelphia:
John Dunlap,
1775.
Weekly.
Parsons, page 228.
Brigham, page 942.
Established by John Dunlap in 1771. The first issue with his name was that of October 25, 1773.
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ii.
General Advertiser:
London:
November and December, 1778.
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