Paul Jones 1792 Swiss Flag Art Abbott Lawrence

Abbott Lawrence

all in service of a perfect pour

and a man's character was measured in pulpit cadence

conscripted onto the Van Buren ticket under the banner of Free Soil — a party whose single

and to forgive him the duel that ended him on the Weehawken bluffs

Paul Jones 1792 Swiss Flag Art Abbott LawrencePaul Jones 1792 a posthumous engraving of the Scottish born captain whose name the Royal Navy spat and the Continental Congress canonized, rendered four years after his Paris death with the lingering smoke of the Bonhomme Richard still clinging to the line work. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the lithographic