[5] See Connecticut Courant, January 12, 1813, p. 3-4; Portsmouth Oracle, June 26, 1813, p. 2-5; Columbian Centinel, August 7, 1813, p. 2-4; New York Herald, August 31, 1814, p. 1-5; The Yankee in London, 1826, p. 96. "General David R. Williams," said the Portsmouth Oracle of January 8, 1814, "commonly called thunder and lightning David, has resigned his command, without sinking the fast anchored island" (p. 4-1). In the Lansingburgh Gazette of December 27, 1814, appeared the following: "'Thunder & lightning' Williams, formerly a member of Congress, and lately for about a month a brigadier-general, is elected Governor of South Carolina" (p. 3-3).
[6] New England Palladium, June 30, 1812, p. 1.
[7] Even as late as March 15, 1823, the expression was still remembered. See Niles' Register of that date, XXIV, 32.
[8] Columbian Centinel, February 3, 1813, p. 2-1. See also Quincy's Speeches delivered in the Congress of the United States (1874), pp. 389, 390. In Harper's Encyclopædia of United States History (1902) will be found reproduced a caricature of Quincy, described as follows:
"In one caricature he was called 'Josiah the First,' and had upon his breast, as the decoration of an order, crossed codfishes, in allusion to his persistent defence of the New England fisheries. He was also called 'King' because of his political domination in New England. In the caricature his coat was scarlet, his waistcoat brown, his breeches light green, and his stockings white. In a space near the head, in the original, were the words, 'I, Josiah the First, do, by this royal proclamation, announce myself King of New England, Nova Scotia, and Passamaquoddy, Grand Master of the noble order of the Two Codfishes'" (VII, 358).
[9] Military Monitor (New York), July 12, 1813, I, 363.
[10] Aurora (Philadelphia), October 25, 1813, p. 2-3. The following toast was given at Passyunk in 1813: "Governor Strong and Orator Fum—two peas of a pod. 3 Groans!" (Aurora, July 12, 1813, p. 2-5).
[11] Independent Chronicle (Boston), September 30, 1813, p. 2-3. In connection with Quincy, it is perhaps worth while to quote the following, for the sake of what is apparently an unrecorded use of the term hand organ: "THE Virginia Argus—one of Mr. Madison's hand organs—calls upon the Federalists of the North to abandon Quincy" (Columbian Centinel, August 29, 1812, p. 1-5).
[12] Columbian Centinel, November 4, 1812, p. 2-4.
[13] Columbian Centinel, October 28, 1812, p. 1-4.