( conjectural )
17 Apr. 1800
Original paper slip text:17 April 1800?
to with 1 enclosure
2 p.
- Archival Note: This document has been tentatively dated according to information in An Account of the Trial of Thomas Cooper (Philadelphia, 1800), p. 12; and Dumas Malone, The Public Life of Thomas Cooper 1783-1789 (New Haven, 1926), p. 122. 17 April is the Thursday after the case was called on 16 April. For the entire controversy, see Wharton, State Trials, p. 392-457. See also James Morton Smith, "President John Adams and Sedition: A Case Study in Suppression," MVHR, XLII, No. 3 (Dec. 1955). Entered by ER 11/20/2015
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