“Herewith you will receive a copy of an oration, which was pronounced by me on the 4
th. Ultimo. In forwarding to you this my first publication, I have no Motive but the offer of a small testimony of that respect
& esteem, which I have uniformly professed for your conduct as a Statesman and your character as a man. Considering the production,
as coming from a youth of twenty years of age--composed at a very short notice, under the pressure of professional business--your
candour will doubtless afford some apology for its numerous defects. In reliance upon this hope I have presumed to submit
it to your inspection . . .”
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STORY,
Joseph.
An Oration, pronounced at Salem, on the Fourth Day of July, 1804, in Commemoration of our National Independence. By Joseph Story, Esq . . .
Salem: Printed by
William Carlton.
1804.
E286 .S16 1804
8vo. 18 leaves, the last with a
Song, composed by Mr. Story, and sung at the close of the performances in the Meeting House.
Jefferson’s copy was sent to him by Jacob Crowninshield, one of the Committee of Arrangements, mentioned in the postscript
to a long letter written on July 14, 1804: “. . . I take the liberty of transmitting to you, accompanying this communication, an Oration pronounced here on the 4
th. inst. by Joseph Story Esq
r which I think you will consider as the work of a master, and you will oblige me by shewing it to my friends M
r. Randolph and M
r. Eppes to whom I beg my best respects may be presented.”
Jefferson replied to Crowninshield’s letter on July 21: “
I received last night your favor of the 14
th. and have to thank you for the Halibut and tongues & sounds . . .
”
Jacob Crowninshield, 1770-1808, was a friend of Jefferson, who in 1805 invited him to succeed Robert Smith as Secretary of the Navy.
For another work by
Joseph Story, 1779-1845, jurist, see no. 2156.
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BARLOW,
Joel.
Oration delivered at Washington, July Fourth, 1809; at the Request of the Democratic Citizens of the District of Columbia.
By Joel Barlow.
Washington City: Printed and published by
R. C. Weightman.
1809.
E286 .W22 1809
8vo. 7 leaves.
Sabin 3425.
Howard 422.
Dexter page 15, no. 19.
Concerning this Oration, Jefferson wrote to Barlow on October 8, 1809: “
It is long since I ought to have acknoleged the reciept of your most excellent oration on the 4
th. of July. I was doubting what you could say, equal to your own reputation, on so hackneyed a subject. but you have really
risen out of it with lustre, and pointed to others a field of great expansion . . .
”
For
Joel Barlow, see the Index. Barlow’s first Fourth of July Oration was delivered at the North Church in Hartford at the Meeting of the
Connecticut Society of the Cincinnati in 1787.
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CHEVES,
Langdon.
An Oration, Delivered in St. Philip’s Church, before an Assemblage of the Inhabitants of Charleston, on the Fourth of July,
1810, in Commemoration of American Independence; by appointment of the Seventy-Six Association, and Published at the Request
of that Society. By Langdon Cheves, a Member of the ’76 Association.
Charleston: Printed by
E. S. Thomas, No. 115, East-Bay. n.d. [
1810.]
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