Joel Barlow
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Joel Barlow (March 24, 1754 – December 26, 1812) was an American poet and diplomat as well as a French politician.
He favored the French Revolution and was a ardent Jeffersonian republican. In 1788, he was a consultant for American speculator William Duer to establish the Scioto Company in Paris and sell worthless deeds to lease property in the Northwest Territory, which it did not own.
Scholars agree that he was unaware of the transactions being fraudulent.
He stayed in Paris and became involved in the French Revolution.
In 1792, he was elected to the Assembly and given French citizenship. Barlow was best known for his epic poem Vision of Columbus (1807), but modern readers prefer The Hasty-Pudding (1793) over the years.
He drafted the Treaty of Tripoli in 1796 to put an end to the attacks on North African city states by Barbary pirates.
He served in France from 1811 to his death in Zarnowiec, Poland, on December 26, 1812.
Early life and education
Barlow was born in Redding, Fairfield County, Connecticut. He attended Dartmouth College briefly before graduating from Yale College in 1778, where he was a member of Brothers in Unity. "The Prospect of Peace" was a anti-slavery book released in 1778 by the author.
Career
Barlow, a ardent patriot of the American Revolution, was a ardent patriot. He served as a chaplain for the 4th Massachusetts Brigade from September 1780 to the close of the Revolutionary War, and was involved in the Battle of Long Island. He was a founding member of the Society of the Cincinnati in Massachusetts (and Connecticut). He was a Mason and he became a good friend of Thomas Paine. Barlow was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia in 1809.
Barlow immigrated to Hartford, Connecticut, in 1783. In July 1784, he founded American Mercury, a weekly newspaper with which he had been affiliated for a year. He was admitted to the bar after "reading the rules" in a newly established office in 1786. Barlow, a Hartford, Connecticut, became one of a group of young writers, including Lemuel Hopkins, David Humphreys, and John Trumbull, nicknamed "Hartford Wits" in American literary history. He contributed to The Anarchiad, a series of satirico-political journals. He wrote The Vision of Columbus, a long and exciting book that gained him a large literary following and was once well read in 1787.
He went to France in 1788 as the agent for Colonel William Duer and the Scioto Land Company, which had been registered in Paris the year before. He planned to sell land in a portion of the newly formed Northwest Territory (this section is now in Ohio) and recruit migrants for new settlements. He seems to have been ignorant of the company's dishonest reputation, which did not have the right to the land it sold and failed spectacularly in 1790. He had previously recruited a group of French people to immigrate to America. The majority of the founders of Gallipolis, Ohio, the second-oldest European-American city established in the new Northwest territory, and they were referred to as the French 500.
Barlow, a liberal philosopher and a nascent republican in Paris, became a liberal theologist and a centrist republican in politics. He believed that "American civilization was world civilization" and was optimistic about the cause of world republicanism. He became involved with the French Revolution, going so far as to be elected to the French Assembly, and being granted French citizenship in 1792. Despite the fact that he dedicated his "Vision of Columbus" to Louis XVI, he joined royal opponents in calling for the king's assassination. Barlow was assisting Thomas Paine in releasing the first part of The Age of Reason, but Paine was arrested during the Reign of Terror in France.
Barlow lived in London for many years, spending most of his time in London. He was a member of the London Society for Constitutional Information. He has also published several experimental essays, including a collection entitled Advice to the Privileged Orders (1792). The British government had forbidden this.
Barlow served in Algiers from 1795 to 1797, during a time when Barbary pirates were vying for the United States and European shipping. To release more than 100 American merchant sailors held by pirates, he used bribes and ransoms from the US Department of State. To prevent future captures of American ships, he helped negotiate agreements with Algiers, Tripoli, and Tunis, Barbary states. In 1805, he returned to the United States, where he lived in Kalorama, the name of a neighborhood in Northwest Washington, D.C., but it was not until he returned to the capital.
Barlow was appointed as US minister to France in 1811; he sailed across the Atlantic on the US Constitution. His challenge was to negotiate an end to the Berlin Decree and the Milan Decree, as well as the freeing of American ships and crews detained by the French during the Napoleonic wars. David Bailie Warden, a former Irish exile, befriended him and was made consul and prize agent. Barlow was off to Vilnius in October 1812 to broker a deal with the French foreign minister, who was based in Lithuania, to plan for the French invasion of Russia. The French army had begun to withdraw from Moscow by the time he arrived.
Barlow returned to Paris by way of Krakow and Vienna, preferring the southerly route. In the Polish village of arnowiec, he became sick and died of pneumonia on December 26, 1812. Later, a monument was unveiled to him.
He published the epic Columbiad, an extended edition of his Vision of Columbus, in 1807. In some quarters, it added to his name, but on the whole, it was not well received. Since being mocked, it has been mocked.
His parody The Hasty-Pudding (1793), first published in New York Magazine and now a staple in literary anthologies, is the poem for which he is best known. In addition, Barlow published The Conspiracy of Kings, a Poem addressed to the inhabitants of Europe from another quarter of the Globe (1792). He continued writing political papers, including Joel Barlow's (2nd ed., 1796)'s book The Public Debt, Receipts, and Expensiture of the United States (1800). However, a lot of his political speculations went beyond his voluminous notebooks, some of which are preserved in Harvard's Houghton Library.
"God Save the King," he also produced a satirical anthem inspired by the British national anthem "God Save the King."
Barlow is a cosmopolitan, according to historian William H. Goetzmann, as well as Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, engineer Robert Fulton, and Thomas Paine, the last two of whom Barlow befriended in France. Barlow argued that the new nation of America was a model civilization that prefigured the "uniting of all humanity in one faith, one language, and one Newtonian harmonious whole," and that "the American Revolution was the start of a global revolution in favour of the rights of all humanity." An optimist, an optimist, hoped that scientific and republican progress, as well as religion and people's growing sense of humanity, would lead to the Millennium's arrival. For him, American civilization was a world civilization. These theories, he said, would coalesce around the restoration of the temple in Jerusalem.
