"Malignity Exposed"
"Malignity Exposed," The Enquirer (Richmond, VA), August 6, 1822, 3.[1]
Article text, 6 August 1822
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RICHMOND, AUGUST 6, 1822.
MALIGNITY EXPOSED.
The subjoined article from the Charleston Patriot exposes another of the vile attemps, which have been recently made by the sleepless spirit of resentment, to strip the laurel from the brow of Jefferson.—His friends never claimed for him the merit of moving in the old Congress of the U.S. the Declaration of its Independence. That honor may belong to Richard Henry Lee, another distinguished Virginian: but his friends have claimed for him the merit of being the author of the Declaration of Independence. It is also true, and the friends of Thomas Jefferson have always said that the original draft of it was changed in some few particulars—that a few single expressions were substituted by others, and that two or three passages of two or three sentences in length were struck out by the Committee.—
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- ↑ "Malignity Exposed," The Enquirer (Richmond, VA), August 6, 1822, 3.
