Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1833 edition. Excerpt: ... It is with great reluctance and hesitation, that your memorialist, the said Samuel C. Reid, claims the attention of Congress; for himself, he should have been for ever silent, but he oan no longer resist the importunities of those who were his associates in that action, nor be longer a passive witness to their poverty and distress, some of whom feel the smart of their wounds to this day. The said officers and crew having lost most of their baggage and other necessaries, and having also suffered great privations and distress, arrived in the United States about the close of the war, and owing to the embarrassments of commerce and navigation, have been unable by any exertions to procure for themselves and families bare subsistence; whence, far the greater part of them and their families, are now actually suffering from want. Your memorialist hath been led to believe that it would not be deemed honourable to the nation or its government, that those whom the journals of Congress have thought proper to eulogise, should exist but in misery and distress in the bosom of their own country. 'SAMUEL C. REID. HIGH TRIBUTE TO HEROIC BRAVERY. Captain Reid, of the General Armstrong, privateer, which was so treacherously destroyed by the enemy in the Neutral Port of Fayal, arriving in this city, on his way from Savannah to New-York, some of the members of the Virginia Legislature, now in session, who had been charmedby the gallantry of an achievement, which is not inferior to any of the numerous feats performed upon the seas during the present war, wished to avail themselves of this opportunity of testifying to the gallant stranger, the deep sentiments of esteem which they had conceived for the intrepidity of his character and his crew. They expressed...
