Page 10 : Beale Ciphers Analyses
The discovery of the source for The Beale Papers version of The Declaration of Independence
One of the many enduring mysteries behind The Beale Papers story has been the source used by its author for the text of The Declaration of Independence.
For the sake of brevity, I will refer to the booklet's version as TBP DOI. It contains many anomalies not found in other versions. Over the long history of the development and subsequent reproductions of the DOI there have been many errors in transcription, capitalization of words, and actual text. Some however, are unique to TBP DOI.
Examples often mentionned have been the word "inalienable" versus the official "unalienable", and the use of "meantime" as opposed to "mean time". Many other specifics follow below.
Now, a determined Beale researcher, Richard Wassmer, has finally discovered the source of the DOI text used by The Beale Papers author.
It is A History of the United States of America, by John R. G. Hassard, published in 1878 by The Catholic Publication Society Co. It is accessible online here:
https://archive.org/details/historyofuniteds00hass
and the full text of its Declaration of Independence is in its Appendix, here:
https://archive.org/stream/historyofuniteds00hass#page/378/mode/2up/search/appendix
In the analysis following, this is referred to as the 1878 DOI. It is identical to TBP DOI except for the following small details which may be due to manual typesetting errors:
| Word | TBP DOI | 1878 DOI |
| 111 | their | these |
| 129 | when | whenever |
| 210 | now | more |
| 415 | their | the |
| 446 | depositary | depository |
| 653 | offered | affected |
| 808 | in | into |
| 1124 | connection | connections |
More significant however is the list of points where both these DOIs are identical, but different than other DOIs, thus proving them to be related. There are far too many versions of the DOI to compare them all, so the table below shows the official National Archives Declaration of Independence (NADOI) as representing other DOIs.
| Word | TBP DOI and 1878 DOI | NADOI |
| 1324 words | 1323 words | |
| 95 | inalienable | unalienable |
| 155 | a new government | new government |
| 520 | meantime | mean time |
| 525 | danger of invasion | dangers of invasion |
| 650 | legislature | legislatures |
| 775 | English laws | English Laws |
| 825 | powers | forms |
| 981 | Indian savages | Indian Savages |
| 1055 | attention | attentions |
| 1070 | made by their legislature | by their legislature |
| 1137 | consanguinity | of consanguinity |
| 1200 | the | "the" absent |
| 1201 | authority | Authority |
| 1237 | British crown | British Crown |
Other researchers have exhaustively combed through versions of the DOI published at the time of its writing until the time The Beale Papers was supposedly written in the early 1820's. Nothing comparable to this has been found.
We can safely conclude that, even if this 1878 DOI was copied from an earlier version, that it was after the 1820's.
Surely then, this constitutes proof positive that The Beale Papers is fiction.
