Jacob

30295 — <p>Quarto 4 pages paper worn edges frayed some worn areas with some loss stained silked at some point the bulk of text is extant and legible good condition. </p><p> Read born in Hobcaw South Carolina was a Revolutionary war soldier lawyer delegate to the Continental Congress South Carolina legislator and congressman. Speaker of South Carolina House of Representatives 1787-1794; U.S. Senator Federalist 1795-1801. One of the "midnight judges" of 1801. He died in Charleston in 1816.</p><p> Read writes from his summer home in Newport Rhode Island discussing amongst other topics the Burr-Hamilton duel and Napoleon:</p><p> "My Dear Sir</p><p> We made sail at 5 OClk on Friday from New York & proceeded a few miles thro Hell Gate passage when the wind died away& we barely drifted with the ebb tide during the night. … We hove about once in the morning got within the light house … and the very Dangerous reef of rocks called Brewster's reef… We finally let go our anchor & brought up in 16 faths water a most disagreeable high sea was brewing & we tumbled about for four hours in as dark & uncomfortable a situation as you can well conceive ….</p><p> We heard by the arrival of Cahoone yesterday afternoon of the mortal wound given to poor Genl. Hamilton by Col. Burr. This event has occasioned a great sensation here. I shall be much obliged to you for the particulars of this unhappy business – a truly great & sensible man in the opinion of <u>all</u> <u>parties</u> is thus I fear taken off by one not esteemed by <u>any party</u>. </p><p> We also see that the anarchical visionary Republic has given place to a despotic military Government not only in Fact but now also in name and that the Philosophists of that unhappy country have exchanged the mild rule of a Native virtuous & noble Prince for the Iron Government of an upstart sanguinary despicable adventurer & he too a Foreigner whose very country & it's <u>name</u> has from all ages been a reproach. Corsican having ever been a synonym for freebooter and <u>Corsair</u>being a derivative from Corsican pirate. …" </p><p>$ 300.00</p><p> <i>Dictionary of American Biography </i>volume VIII p. 425</p> books