Doctor Johns: being a narrative of certain events in the life of an orthodox minister of Connecticut. By the author of My farm of Edgewood.
Subtitle: Vol. 2
Publisher: Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library
Published: December 20, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9781425528980
Subjects: United States - General; History / United States / General; History - U.S.
First sentence: IN the summer of 1812, when the good people of Connecticut were feeling uncommonly bitter about the declaration of war against England, and were abusing Mr. Madison in the roundest terms, there lived in the town of Canterbury a fiery old gentleman, of near sixty years, and a sterling Democrat, who took up the cudgels bravely for the Administration, and stoutly belabored Governor Roger Griswold for his tardy obedience to the President in calling out the militia, and for what he called his absurd pretensions in regard to State sovereignty.