Note 533 — Chapter III · (continued 2)

Haven in Thomas, ii., sub anno 1735, 1738; Carter-Brown, iii. 593, 594. Chandler cites editions in New York, 1735, 1756, 1770, and London, 1764. Franklin printed Remarks on Zenger’s Trial in 1737. Remarks on the Trial of John Peter Zenger (London, 1738) is signed by Indus Britannicus, who calls Hamilton’s speech a “wild and idle harangue,” and aims to counteract “the approval of the paper called Common Sense.” Cf. for Hamilton the chapter on the Bench and Bar in Scharf and Westcott’s Philadelphia (ii. 1501). “Andrew Hamilton was the first American lawyer who gained more than a local reputation, and the only one who did so in colonial times.” Lodge, Short History, 233, gives references on the courts and bar of Pennsylvania and New York (pp. 232, 233, 316, 317). There is a portrait of Andrew Hamilton in the Penn. Hist. Soc., and a photograph of it in Etting’s Independence Hall. The trial is canvassed in Chandler’s Amer. Criminal Trials, i. 151; and the narrative of the trial and the Remarks, etc., are reprinted in Howell’s State Trials, vol. xvii. Cf. also Hudson’s Journalism, p. 81, and Lossing in Harper’s Monthly, lvii. p. 293. The New York State library possesses a collection made by Zenger himself of all the printed matter on the case appearing in his day.