Enclosure: Notes on Publications, 18 May 1805
Enclosure: Notes on Publications
Notes on the enclosed publications.
| No 1. | Cato—G. Poindexter | |
| No 2. | Anti-Cato, | in his first attempt, failing to moderate the glowing zeal of Cato, has availed himself of the imprudent temper of his antagonist, and by a few squibs (too trifling to send) has fretted him quite from the field. |
| No. 3. | Its authors are exposed in | |
| No. 4. | Castigator— | Gener, E. Turner, the ex-Register, the son-in-law of Cato West; |
| Pugil, D.W. Brazeale, an unprincipled coward. | ||
| Poëtaster, John Shaw, Post master at Greenville who sometimes writes bad verses. | ||
| These three form the Secretary’s privy-council. | ||
| Castigator has stated facts. | ||
MS (DLC: TJ Papers, 149:26089); in Briggs’s hand; undated. Enclosures not found.
In his 11 May letter to TJ, Briggs observed that an “ebullition of turbulent spirits” had commenced in the local press and promised, by the next mail, to “send thee all the pieces, to that time, with explanatory notes.” The two newspapers in the territory during this period were the Mississippi Herald, edited by Andrew Marschalk, and the Mississippi Messenger, established in September 1804 by Timothy and Samuel Terrell (Brigham, American Newspapers, 1:426-7; Vol. 42:91n).