The sun., 1882-06-18

init some remarkable condolences between
certain passases of Mr.. Dickinson's draft
and certain others of which Jefferson is the re-,
puted author And first present in parallel
columns paragraph from Dickinson's part Of
the Declaration of ITS and paragraph from
the Declaration OF Independence one year later
The subject matter is the same the figures and
italics are mine:
Declaration orl77S. Declaration orI77s
81. They have undertRken e. (lJ lie has comLineh
S SSs aa S %rF ""s % Grs to sq .
exclusive right to dispose knowicgei by our i"Ms
OF our own property giving his assent to thc,t
se"Gns TIE @ cs; ;
the Courts Of Admiralty and large bodic arl. roors
Vice Admiralty yond their among 3 q protect.
ancient limits 3. FOR de. ing by mock trial Uot
and "a prs %e sey .o SS "s;
ege V trial tg Jury in cases the inhabtant. These
sans s saG tae su c vi With 'T a. f@S pnr or r
for s5 Gt the The 9 %2sa on . u. a. p % s
Of smother: o r or he BENEFITS Of ria, ~
by us Ssyon te seas "sT To- Se frisf
OF Il. '@% nmn nseu[sS sE "S for for IT, rs, -
crown I for exempting the neighGorng pyoiac esa6-
p,urcrers of cOloniss fishing therein M arbitrary
from runjshmeEt g for its boundaries as to rri.
prosnce acquired by the and it instrument for mtrO
sn% GIea e.pos Gds GS ac tn these s"s 5
t s p5 TSFg & @ as5f oT %F & S
ING soldiers upon the col valuable laws-ainendnens
onists in time of profound by pr Franklin oad alter.
IL in /! Hfs "sS GfSn ,sa q g 5r &c S
coonists CHARGED with COM Ior snspending our Lcgl
miiting certain 9gsaces shall lures H. ii and declaring
be Transported TO England 70 themselves invested with
one statute it is declared n ali cases whatsoersr"
right make laws to bind US
IN all cases WhdtsOerer."
Here are eleven consecutive coincldences no
more, no less. But Jefferson explicitly disowns
the former. We're the complaints Of tho colo-
MES so stereotyped as to make such parallels
unavoidable 2 How. then, came Jefferson to
make twelve prior complaints, each in a sepa-
rate paragraph. and then. after putting thess
eleven counts in one paragraph. follow it with
nearly as many more separate complaints
Did Jefferson borrow the paragraph from
Dickinsonp Hardly il what he says forty
years aftcrward is true. namely Whether
had gathered my ideas from reading do not
know. l know only that 1 turned to neither
book nor pamphet.while writing il" Works
VII. SO5).
But if he did. nevertheless borrow tho ras-
sage he did it not only once but twice. On the
22d OF July. l775. Congress appointed a COM
mittee to prepare an answer to the cOnGil-
iatory proposition Of Lord North. Jefferson,
the youngest member of the committee and
Of Congress. prepared the report which his
bioGrapher Rayner ranks next in importance
to the Declaration Of Independence From
that document l now extract the following
consecutive passages. marking by italics tho
words which agree with Dickinsons paper by
small caps those which agree with the subso-
Quent Declaration of Independence and with
large capitals tho words in common to all three
Documents:
l. a. 81 Thatthc Colonies Of America arc cnti,edto
the sole and csc'r. rriyege Of ei~9g god a,qn'9
, s. AID ALrtRISG STTS' fiiE f6aH !5s GSff&GdS. Sf&
ERSMENT OF one OF our Colonies 3. q 4 extending the
ssYsss1 nna Ss'9fRf 81 M
fH 81 @% 's,TT s. J q s - lSals 'rSgs r. 2
simg n.o n Ser % %md y IS M 2 toS rAA@l3 ~
bDEENREFRs DERERs or ca eoji 81 Tg F5M e e SsTEH S2sf & Z 9
dhd q ALTERING '3idiers on Is b' times y I,Golh
as ojE fGF o@n S2 f az &" T'Fm % m +
M ,Ts1E itIi,ESG ros Is T"fHStlNE, M j. AZ GAShs
totrc, aud fisheries Of the lrovintcs Of Sow GasiaSi;
ana tor iM"Mirtlag the TRADE OF other Colol,s VIM
Here again arc eleven consecutive conc-
dent complaints, all but the first one embodied
in single paragraph. And there are:
Words agreeing with Dickinson draft ....,..,..61 81
Words repeated in the Declaration Of 100 ...,A a
Words III common to the three papers. ..,... ...3
But there arc more condolences in the De-
cIaration of 1775 and l77G. Iwlll adducc two,
and in connection herewith will quote from
another writer with view To solution OF
the mystery Of condolences. For t. as | maIn-
tain beyond all doubt the author Of the Let
ters OF Junius furnished Jefferson with the
rough draft of the Declaration Of lnlepcn-
dcncc, is it not quite likely that he hu hand
also in tho documents Of 1775, Who's repucd
authors are Dickinson and Jcircr,out
"dSr ds@Sa" foTI.,6.r. %L .7I1 I21n,D ~ %R,GGo' lnn
Ianls OF rg snnd o ",,G' of the rirro.reu.rsof "a
n,GiUn dI'I .r'I hNNt ,'M-fai"n H'I "aa"I