Judge St. George Tucker's Pamphlet in Relation to Williamsburg; Wm. and Mary Qrtly., V.2, N.3

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Judge St. George Tucker's Pamphlet in Relation to Williamsburg

   William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Papers, Vol. 2, No. 3.
   (Jan., 1894), p. 181.

                 JUDGE ST. GEORGE TUCKER'S PAMPHLET IN RELATION TO WILLIAMSBURG.

   There was recently discovered, among the papers of the learned St. George Tucker, a
pamphlet (published in 1795) in the nature of a reply to the Rev. Jedediah Morse, father of
the celebrated S.F.B. Morse, who had passed certain strictures on the character of the in-
habitants of Williamsburg.  Among the villages of America, Williamsburg has easily stood pre-
eminent for learning and the arts, and the mistake of its critics has consisted in treating
it as if it were a city of metropolitan population.  The editor reprints Judge Tucker's
pamphlet, with some explanatory remarks by himself at the conclusion, and follows it with a
letter of Judge John Tyler, then a fellow member of the General Court of Virginia, to whom
Judge Tucker sent a copy of his pamphlet.  Jedediah's uncalled for attack on Williamsburg - 
near which Judge Tyler was born - added to the unjust discrimination against the South
contained in Jay's commercial treaty with Great Britain, negotiated a short time before,
excited an ire which finds vigorous expression in the words of the letter written to Tucker: