Evening Star Newspaper, November 22, 1928, Page 45

LETTERS RELATE EARLY HISTORY French Manuscripts Picture Colonies in Days Before Revolutionary War. Unpublished manuscript leters in the archives of the French government present certain celebrated episodes of American history in a new light, Dr. Waldo G. Leeland, secretary of the American Council of Learned Societies, said in a Jecture at the Carnegie In- stitution last night Mr. Leeland has supervised the work of cataloging for the Carneigie Insti- tution more than 500,000 maunscripts in the French archives and the libraries of Paris which deal with American affairs. This material has been prac- tically untouched by historians. The manuscripts reveal, Mr. Leeland said, that France had secret agents in the colonies long before the outbreak of the Revolution who were making regular reports on the sentiment of the people and on economic conditions which were leading to the inevitable break with England. One of these men. whose name was kept; secret in the correspondence, work- ed under the French Ambassador in Lon- don and traveled leisurely through the colonies in 1765. He came into Wil- liamsburg, Va., when the famous de- bate over the stamp act was in progress in the House of Burgesses and his re- port, furnishes the only eye-witness ac- count of what happened. He tells of coming into the town and seeing three colored men hanging on a gallows. When he got to the cham- ber, he relates, one of the members named Patrick Henry was making a speech. He quoted Henry as saying that “Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell, and I have no doubt that if present conditions continue some one in the Colonies will -stand up for his country.” At this ctage, the secret agent relates. another member arose and declared the speech was treasonable. Whereup, the letter continues, Henry protested his loyalty. said that he would show his devotion to Great Britain to the last drop of his blood, and begged the pardon of the Speaker and the House if he had said anything in his zeal for the cause that could be interpreted as an affront to the King. Mr. Leeland read in contrast to this William Wirt's account of Henry's speech, from which the popu- lar American legend of his bold de- flance has been derived. 2 Another series of letters unearthed by Mr. Leeland was from Aaron Burr to Napoleon trying to convince that mon- |arch that conditions in the United | States were ripe for setting up a mon- archy. Burr intimated that he himself would be an ideal monarch and would repay with loyalty to the French cause ‘b:}}:fi‘fm the Emperor might do in his Other letters give detailed sccounts of unrecorded naval battles off the coast of New England and in Chesapeake Bay during the Revolution in which French ships took part. PRISON HIT BY RABBI. 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