“We have good reason...”
Date
3-7-1812
Newspaper
The Supporter
Page and Column
Page 2, column 4, Page 3, Column 1
Newspaper Location
Chillicothe, Ohio
Serial Number
574
Abstract
Account from the National Intelligencer that John C. Edwards information is false.
Transcript
We have good reason to believe that the account of the late earthquake, signed John C. Edwards, copied from a N. Carolina paper into the National Intelligencer of the 28th ult. if not altogether untrue, was greatly exaggerated; as we find, from a Knoxville paper, of a later date, that the Painted Rock, which, in that account, was stated to have fallen down and blocked up the road, retains its old station, unmoved. Not satisfied with having imposed upon the public by one wonderful account of this phenomenon, a second story has been published under same signature, more extraordinary that the first wherein it is stated that a VOLCANOE had burst forth at the top of Spear's Mountain, in Buncombe county, which continued to burn with great violence, and to throw up lava, &c. in large quantities, with the most tremendous noise, &c. &c. This second story, which is told as circumstantially, and with the same plausibility, as the first, is doubtless equally devoid of truth; as the representative in Congress from that district of North Carolina, has received letters from thence, of a later date, which are entirely silent as to any such extraordinary event. It is to be regretted, that his personage, whoever he may be, has no better employment.--Nat. In.
Recommended Citation
"“We have good reason...”" (1812). New Madrid Compendium. 562.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/cas-ceri-new-madrid-compendium/562
