In the _Columbian Centinel_ of July 22, 1812, "Brutus" asked: "As a friend to liberty and republicanism, I wish to inquire whether Mr. _Armstrong_ lately made a Brigadier General in our army by President _Madison_, is the same man, who has been supposed to have written the letters to the army in 1783, advising them to retain their arms, till they had forced the civil authorities to comply with their demands, and compensated themselves by plundering the innocent and defenceless citizens?" (p. 2-3). In the _New York Herald_ of January 20, 1813, is the following: "_New Secretary at War._--Gen. Armstrong's appointment has passed the Senate by a majority of three. Yesterday we mentioned that a Captain Jones of Philadelphia, was appointed _Secretary of the Navy_. So that we have for a Secretary of the Navy a man who headed a Philadelphia mob, to encourage the administration to pursue the war, and a Secretary of the Army, a man who exerted his best abilities to induce the heroes of the revolution to turn their arms against their own country. Nothing was wanting to compleat the administration but a man for Secretary of the Treasury who once headed a rebellion, and they have him in Albert Gallatin" (p. 1-2). William Jones was the new Secretary of the Navy. In the _New York Herald_ of September 3, 1813, is an extract taken from the _Federal Republican_ (of Washington): "_Appointments-in-petto_--BOMBASTICO INCHIQUIN to be Attorney General, vice MARQUIS OF WHITEWASH, so long inimical in the cabinet to secretary Mars.--_Note_: this nomination can only be read, at present, by a _Rush-light_. Brigadier-General BOANERGES to be Secretary of War, vice DUKE OF NEWBURGH, to be removed under the standing rescript of the Virginia dynasty" (p. 4-2). "Bombastico Inchiquin" was Charles J. Ingersoll, author of Inchiquin, the Jesuit's Letters (1810); the "Marquis of Whitewash" was apparently William Pinckney; "Rush-light" is an allusion to Richard Rush; while the identity of "Brigadier General Boanerges" escapes me. Satirical allusions to the "Virginia dynasty" were long common in the Northern newspapers. In the _Columbian Centinel_ of February 6, 1813, a correspondent said: "I WAS one of those who predicted in the year 1801, that the _Virginia_ dynasty, which was at that time coming into power therein ever after to remain, would violate the Public Faith then pledged to the public creditors" (p. 2-1). See also _New York Evening Post_, November, 1812, p. 2-5; _Columbian Centinel_, November 7, 1812, 2-3; _Columbian Centinel_, June 4, 1814, p. 2-3. [15] A satirical poem called "An Intercepted Letter, from Tall Tommy to Little Jemmy" appeared in the _Salem Gazette_ of November 3, 1814, p. 4-1. [16] "And it came to pass ... that there arose a mighty man in the land, called Thomas, the Magician, on account of his great skill and cunning in dark and mysterious projects" (Adventures of Uncle Sam, 1812, p. 10). [17] The Yankee in London, 1826, p. 9.