Note 5 — UNCLE SAM. BY ALBERT MATTHEWS.

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).