Nathaniel Gordon

“Nathaniel Macon of North Carolina was only one of many Republicans who in the early months of 1812 voted against all attempts to arm and prepare the navy, who opposed all efforts to beef up the War Department, who rejected all tax increases, and yet who in June 1812 voted for the war.””

“Kant’s categories”

“In 1837 Edgar Allan Poe made use of the more ghoulish aspects of Chase’s account in his Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym.””