Charles Burrall to Thomas Jefferson, [7 March 1814]
From Charles Burrall
[7 Mar. 1814]
Sir
Since writing my letter of yesterday an insiduous piece has appeared against me in the Whig, which I enclose—It contains many unfounded suggestions to my prejudice, altho it tacitly admits that I have done my duty with correctness & impartiality—I have loaned to government more money than I could make by my office in Six years, and of six people employed in my office there is but one, a poor Letter carrier, of the Fedral party in politics. My deposition refered to in my letter of yesterday, will be found in a pamphlet that I send you by this days1 mail—It commences on Page 153 & ends on Page 159. This pamphlet contains much information relative to our disturbances that you may not have seen—
Chas Burrall
RC (DLC: James Madison Papers); undated; endorsed by TJ as a letter of 7 Mar. 1814 received four days later and so recorded in SJL, which indicates that it came from Baltimore. Enclosed in TJ to James Madison, 16 Mar. 1814.
Burrall’s deposition of 18 Dec. 1812 describes his efforts in the summer of that year to protect the Baltimore post office from Republican mobs intent on seizing copies of the Federal Republican. It was printed on pp. 153–9 of at least two pamphlets, Testimony taken before the Committee of Grievances and Courts of Justice, Relative to the Late Riots and Mobs in the City of Baltimore (Annapolis, 1813) and Report of the Committee of Grievances and Courts of Justice of the House of Delegates of Maryland, on the Subject of the Recent Mobs and Riots in the City of Baltimore, together with the Depositions Taken Before the Committee (Annapolis, 1813). A manuscript version dated 18 Dec. 1812 is in DLC: Madison Papers and described in , Pres. Ser., 5:575n. Other enclosure not found.
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- Baltimore, Md.; 1812riot in search
- Burrall, Charles; as Baltimore postmaster search
- Burrall, Charles; criticized search
- Burrall, Charles; letters from search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Correspondence; letters of application and recommendation to search
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- Report of the Committee of Grievances and Courts of Justice of the House of Delegates of Maryland, on the Subject of the Recent Mobs and Riots in the City of Baltimore, together with the Depositions Taken Before the Committee search
- Testimony taken before the Committee of Grievances and Courts of Justice, Relative to the Late Riots and Mobs in the City of Baltimore search