REPLY TO A PAMPHLET BY THOMAS ALLEN, ENTITLED, AN "EXAMINATION OF THE CASE PRESENTED TO CONGRESS BY BLAIR & RIVES, IN RELATION TO THE COMPENDIUM OF THE SIXTH CENSUS, TOGETHER WITH THE TESTIMONY TAKEN BEFORE THE COMMITTEE OF CLAIMS, AND OTHER PAPERS;" WITH A FURTHER EXAMINATION OF THE SAME CASE, AND THE PRINCIPAL PART OF THE TESTIMONY TAKEN BEFORE THE SELECT COMMITTEE COMPOSED OF MESSRS. HOPKINS, DAVIS, PROFFIT, MEDILL, AND IRWIN; TOGETHER WITH OTHER OFFICIAL PAPERS AND DOCUMENTS PERTAINING TO A FORMER NAVAL COURT MARTIAL

Washington, 1842. 114, [2 blank] pp. Pages 113-114 are titled, 'Appendix'. Stitched, untrimmed, partly uncut, lightly dusted. Small institutional rubberstamp on title page and in blank margin of final page of text. Light scattered foxing. Very Good.

Weaver, superintending clerk of the sixth census, chronicles the dispute between Thomas Allen and the firm of Blair & Rives concerning Congress's letting of the printing contract for the Compendium of the Sixth Census.
This patronage fight engaged the attention of Whigs [who controlled the Committee], Democrats, Secretary of State Daniel Webster, and other luminaries. Because Webster and others sought to discredit him in this controversy, Lieutenant Weaver also discusses his "persecution" in a prior naval court martial; he includes the testimony of Commodore Charles Stewart.
AI 42-5070 [3].