Note 8 — III James Fenimore Cooper
Reading edition
One of the most extraordinary of the suits arose from criticism of the Naval History. Cooper had refused to take the popular side of a heated controversy and to join in assailing Elliott, Perry’s second in command at the Battle of Lake Erie. The suit, against Stone of the ‘Commercial Advertiser,’ was settled by arbitration, and in Cooper’s favor. Lounsbury’s Cooper, pp. 200–230.