Lord save us, the Congress are fighting!

• imprint_number: 1798.040
• title: Lord save us, the Congress are fighting! A new song: tune--"The night before Larry was stretch'd."
• sequence_number: 40
• year: 1798
• place_issued: Alexandria
• issuing_press: Thomas & Westcott
• author: -----
• notes: Text contains the lyrics to a song of thirteen stanzas, printed in two columns. Subject is the beating of Vermont Republican Matthew Lyon (1749-1825) by Connecticut Federalist Roger Griswold (1762-1812) on floor of the U.S. House of Representatives on February 15, 1798; the writer contrasts the Federalists' advocacy for social order with this disordered event.
  Sheet lacks printer credit; Evans attributed this title to the press of Thomas & Westcott, then the Republican printers in Alexandria, as opposed to the Federalist press of Price & Gird; that assignment is included in this Index in the absence of other evidence.
  
  
• Related Bios:
  • John V. Thomas
  • James Diament Westcott, Sr.

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