[3] The term does not appear in the following books, where, if known at all or in general use, it would be certain to turn up: J. K. Paulding, The Diverting History of John Bull and Brother Jonathan, by Hector Bull-us, 1812; The Beauties of Brother Bull-us, by his loving Sister Bull-a, 1812 (a reply to Paulding's book); W. Dunlap, Yankee Chronology, 1812; The Wars of the Gulls, 1812; Paulding, The United States and England, 1814; The Reviewers Reviewed, 1815; D. Humphrey, The Yankey in England, 1815. The first appearance of the term in a book was in The Adventures of Uncle Sam, 1816. See p. 40, below. Besides these books, political skits (written largely in Biblical language) were not uncommon in the newspapers. See _Columbian Centinel_ (Boston), November 7, 1812, p. 1-3; _The Yankee_ (Boston), August 13, 1813, p. 2-2; _Portsmouth Oracle_, February 26, 1814, p. 3-1; _Columbian Centinel_, March 2, 1814, p. 1-2. While John Bull, Brother Jonathan, and John Codline (that is, New Englanders) figure in these skits, there is no allusion to Uncle Sam. It may be added that in his Jonathan Bull and Mary Bull, written in 1821, Madison makes no mention of Uncle Sam. [4] View of the State of Parties in the United States (second edition, 1812), p. 159. The author of this work gives January 21, as the date of Williams's speech. The true date is January 24. See the _Connecticut Courant_ of February 5, 1812, p. 2-3. [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: