From Resolutions of a mass meeting of the citizens of Washington County, Mississippi Territory.

"Situated in a remote corner of a territory of the United States, we have just heard of the outrage committed upon our flag by the arrogant representatives of British despotism, and feel as every other true American must feel about it.

"We despise that bully and coward, the captain of the Leopard, who attacked a defenceless vessel. We care not who the men were that were taken from the Chesapeake, or where they were born or to what government they owed allegiance. No foreign power had the right to invade our territory (as the decks of our ships are) for their arrest.

"What the final result of an appeal to arms may be is known only to the Lord of Hosts; and upon Him, knowing the justice of our course, we rely in humble confidence, and pledge that for defense and honor our blood shall mingle in solemn sacrifice with that of other Americans."

From the Richmond Enquirer.

After detailing other outrages by British ships upon our vessels and coasts, it said:

"Our last war with England secured our freedom upon land; but upon the seas Britain still treats us as colonists and slaves. Fellow countrymen! We have yet to fight for our independence upon the ocean!"

From the Philadelphia Register.

The occasion has come when it is not only the interest, but the duty of citizens to merge all differences of internal politics in the defense of national honor and national rights. For such indignities as these there can be

no atonement but the instant surrender of the officers of the Leopard to be tried in our courts for murder, or open war!"

Hundreds of such patriotic utterances could, if sought for, be collected from the newspapers of that day, and there seems to have been no divided opinion existing among the people anywhere in the States or Territories. Yet the administration of Mr. Jefferson, strong, even fierce in words, but longsuffering and patient, still forbore to do what the people demanded, and left it to Mr. Madison's administration to declare, five years later, the war which all intelligent citizens knew to be unavoidable.

APPENDIX E

MRS. MADISON AND WASHINGTON'S PORTRAIT

I do not know how much credence is to be given a volume of Reminiscences, published some thirty years ago, which purports to be the recollections of Paul Jennings, who was a slave and body-servant of James Madison, President of the United States. In this volume he says:

"It has often been stated in print that when Mrs. Madison escaped from the White House, she cut out from its frame the large portrait of Washington (which is now in the parlor) and carried it off. This is totally false. She had no time for doing so. It would have required a ladder to get it down. All she carried off was the silver in her reticule, as the British were thought to be but a few squares off and expected every moment.

"John Suse, a Frenchman, who was then doorkeeper, and is still living (1865), and Magrew, the President's gardener, took it down and sent it off in a wagon with some large silver urns and such other valuables as could hastily be gotten hold of.

"When the British did arrive they ate up the very dinner, and drank the wines, that I had prepared for the President's party."

And on another page he says:

"Mrs. Madison ordered dinner to be ready at three o'clock as usual. I set the table myself, and brought up the ale, cider and wine and placed them in the coolers, as all the Cabinet officers and several military gentlemen and strangers were expected to dinner."

APPENDIX F

THE CHILDREN OF GOVERNOR TIFFIN

As stated in the memoir, Governor Tiffin had no children by his first wife. The issue of his second marriage, with Mary Porter, was as follows:

MARY PORTER TIFFIN, who was born January 28, 1810; married Joseph A. Reynolds (son of Judge J. Reynolds of Urbana, Ohio), July 12, 1825. She died July 1, 1862. Mr. Reynolds died August 23, 1883.

was born in Washington

DIATHEA MADISON TIFFIN City, March 4, 1814. She is still living in Chillicothe, Ohio.

ELEANOR WORTHINGTON TIFFIN was born October 17, 1815. She married Matthew Scott Cook (son of Judge Isaac Cook of Ross County, Ohio), April 22, 1840. living. Mr. Cook died November 28, 1882.

She is still

REBECCA TURNER TIFFIN was born April 7, 1820. In October, 1839, she married Dr. Cornelius George Comegys, son of Governor Cornelius Comegys of Delaware. July 13, 1895, and Dr. Comegys died in Cincinnati, February 10, 1896.

She died

EDWARD PARKER TIFFIN was born November 9, 1822. He was killed in a railroad accident near New York City, October 5, 1853, while returning from Paris, France, where he had been pursuing post-graduate studies in medicine.

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