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Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson
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Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson.by Thomas Jefferson.PREFACE.The opinion universally entertained of the extraordinary abilities of Thomas Jefferson, and the signal evidence given by his country, of a profound s
- 201 Was.h.i.+ngton, March 22, 1806.I thank you, my good Sir, cordially, for your letter of the 12th; which, however, I did not receive till the 20th. It is a proof of sincerity, which I value above all things; as, between those who practise it, falsehood and
- 202 LETTER x.x.xI.--TO COLONEL MONROE, May 4, 1806 TO COLONEL MONROE.Was.h.i.+ngton, May 4, 1806.Dear Sir, I wrote you on the 16th of March by a common vessel, and then expected to have had, on the rising of Congress, an opportunity of peculiar confidence to
- 203 Our crops of wheat are greater than have ever been known, and are now nearly secured. A caterpillar gave for a while great alarm, but did little injury. Of tobacco, not half a crop has been planted for want of rain; and even this half, with cotton and Ind
- 204 Was.h.i.+ngton, March 21, 1807.Dear Sir, A copy of the treaty with Great Britain came to Mr. Erskine's hands on the last day of the session of Congress, which he immediately communicated to us; and since that, Mr. Purviance has arrived with an origin
- 205 THOMAS JEFFERSON TO ALBERT GALLATIN.I gave you, some time ago, a project of a more equal tariff on wines, than that which now exists. But in that I yielded considerably to the faulty cla.s.sification of them in our law. I have now formed one with attentio
- 206 LETTER L.--TO GEORGE HAY, June 12, 1807 TO GEORGE HAY.Was.h.i.+ngton, June 12, 1807.Dear Sir, Your letter of the 9th is this moment received. Reserving the necessary right of the President of the United States to decide, independently of all other authori
- 207 Dear Sir, Mr. Latrobe now comes on as a witness against Burr. His presence here is with great inconvenience dispensed with, as one hundred and fifty workmen require his constant directions on various public works of pressing importance. I hope you will pe
- 208 Was.h.i.+ngton, July 17, 1807.My Dear Friend, Yours of the 11th is received. In appointments to public offices of mere profit, I have ever considered faithful service in either our first or second revolution as giving preference of claim, and that appoint
- 209 LETTER LXIII.--TO THE REV. MR. MILLAR, January 23, 1808 TO THE REV. MR. MILLAR, Was.h.i.+ngton, January 23, 1808.Sir, I have duly received your favor of the 18th, and am thankful to you for having written it, because it is more agreeable to prevent than t
- 210 Th: Jefferson.LETTER LXVIII.--TO CHARLES PINCKNEY, March 30, 1808 TO CHARLES PINCKNEY.Was.h.i.+ngton, March 30, 1808.Dear Sir, Your letter of the 8th was received on the 25th, and I proceed to state to you my views of the present state and prospect of for
- 211 TO THOMAS JEFFERSON RANDOLPH.Was.h.i.+ngton, November 24, 1808.My Dear Jefferson, Your situation, thrown at such a distance from us and alone, cannot but give us all great anxieties for you. As much has been secured for you, by your particular position an
- 212 TO M. DUPONT DE NEMOURS.Was.h.i.+ngton, March 2, 1809.Dear Sir, My last to you was of May the 2nd; since which I have received yours of May the 25th, June the 1st, July the 23rd, 24th, and September the 5th, and distributed the two pamphlets according to
- 213 LETTER Lx.x.xIII.--TO DOCTOR BARTON, September 21, 1809 TO DOCTOR BARTON.Monticello, September 21, 1809.Dear Sir, I received last night your favor of the 14th, and would with all possible pleasure have communicated to you any part or the whole of the Indi
- 214 You expect that your book will have some effect on the prejudices which the society of Friends entertain against the present and late administrations. In this I think you will be disappointed. The Friends are men, formed with the same pa.s.sions, and sway
- 215 LETTER XCII.--TO J. B. COLVIN, September 20, 1810 TO J. B. COLVIN.Monticello, September 20, 1810.Sir, Your favor of the 14th has been duly received, and I have to thank you for the many obliging things respecting myself which are said in it.If I have left
- 216 My situation, far in the interior of the country, was not favorable to the object of getting this work translated and printed. Philadelphia is the least distant of the great towns of our States, where there exists any enterprise in this way; and it was no
- 217 TO JOHN ADAMS.Monticello, April 20, 1812.Dear Sir, I have it now in my power to send you a piece of homespun in return for that I received from you. Not of the fine texture, or delicate character of yours, or, to drop our metaphor, not filled as that was
- 218 Monticello, June 17,1812.Dear Sir, On the other subject of your letter, the application of the common law to our present situation, I deride with you the ordinary doctrine, that we brought with us from England the common law rights. This narrow notion was
- 219 Our accepting at once, and sincerely, the mediation of the virtuous Alexander, their greatest friend, and the most aggravated enemy of Bonaparte, sufficiently proves whether we have partialities on the side of her enemy. I sincerely pray that this mediati
- 220 And I too, my dear Sir, like the wood-cutter of Ida, should doubt where to begin, were I to enter the forest of opinions, discussions, and contentions which have occurred in our day. I should say with Theocritus, [Ill.u.s.tration: page201a]But I shall not
- 221 It is a litigated question, whether the circulation of paper, rather than of specie, is a good or an evil. In the opinion of England and of English writers it is a good; in that of all other nations it is an evil; and excepting England and her copyist, th
- 222 LETTER CXV.--TO JOHN ADAMS, October 28, 1813 TO JOHN ADAMS.Monticello, October 28, 1813.Dear Sir, According to the reservation between us, of taking up one of the subjects of our correspondence at a time, I turn to your letters of August the 16th and Sept
- 223 More time and recollection would enable me to add many other traits of his character; but why add them to you, who knew him well? And I cannot justify to myself a longer detention of your paper._Vale, proprieque tuum me esse tibi persuadeas_.Th: Jefferson
- 224 The Marats, the Dantons, and Robespierres of Ma.s.sachusetts are in the same pay, under the same orders, and making the same efforts to anarchize us, that their prototypes in France did there.I do not say that all who met at Hartford were under the same m
- 225 LETTER CXXV.--TO THE PRESIDENT, March 23,1815 TO THE PRESIDENT.Monticello, March 23,1815.Deak Sir, I duly received your favor of the 12th, and with it the pamphlet on the causes and conduct of the war, which I now return. I have read it with great pleasur
- 226 LETTER CXXIX.--TO DABNEY CARR, January 19, 1816 TO DABNEY CARR.Monticello, January 19, 1816.Dear Sir, At the date of your letter of December the 1st, I was in Bedford, and since my return, so many letters, acc.u.mulated during my absence, having been pres
- 227 TO BENJAMIN AUSTIN.Monticello, January 9, 1816.[* This letter was accidentally misplaced, and is now inserted out of its regular order.]Dear Sir, I acknowledge with pleasure your letter of the 9th of December last.Your opinions on the events which have ta
- 228 LETTER Cx.x.xVII.--TO SAMUEL KERCHIVAL, September 5, 1816 TO SAMUEL KERCHIVAL.Monticello, September 5, 1816.Sir, Your letter of August the 16th is just received. That which I wrote to you under the address of H. Tompkinson, was intended for the author of
- 229 Although, Dear Sir, much retired from the world, and meddling little in its concerns, yet I think it almost a religious duty to salute at times my old friends, were it only to say and to know that 'all's well.'Our hobby has been politics; b
- 230 LETTER CXLVI.--TO M. DE NEUVILLE, December 13, 1818 TO M. DE NEUVILLE.Monticello, December 13, 1818.I thank your Excellency for the notice with which your letters favor me, of the liberation of France from the occupation of the allied powers. To no one, n
- 231 I have been amusing myself latterly with reading the voluminous letters of Cicero. They certainly breathe the purest effusions of an exalted patriot, while the parricide Caesar is lost in odious contrast. When the enthusiasm, however, kindled by Cicero's
- 232 And this should be the law of every language. Thus, having adopted the adjective fraternal, it is a root which should legitimate fraternity, fraternation, fraternization, fraternism, to fratenate, fraternize, fraternally. And give the word neologism to ou
- 233 But the gloomiest of all prospects, is in the desertion of the best friends of the inst.i.tution, for desertion I must call it. I know not the necessities which may force this on you. General c.o.c.ke, you say, will explain them to me; but I cannot concei
- 234 4. That reason in religion is of unlawful use.5. That G.o.d, from the beginning, elected certain individuals to be saved, and certain others to be d.a.m.ned; and that no crimes of the former can d.a.m.n them; no virtues of the latter, save.Now, which of t
- 235 If I am in error in any particular, pray correct your humble servant.John Adams.LETTER CLXVII.--TO DOCTOR COOPER, November 2, 1822 TO DOCTOR COOPER.Monticello, November 2, 1822.Dear Sir, Your favor of October the 18th came to hand yesterday. The atmospher
- 236 was with G.o.d, and that mind was G.o.d. This was in the beginning with G.o.d.All things were created by it, and without it was made not one thing which was made.' Yet this text, so plainly declaring the doctrine of Jesus, that the world was created by t
- 237 LETTER CLXXIV.--TO JOHN ADAMS, September 4, 1823 TO JOHN ADAMS.Monticello, September 4, 1823.Dear Sir, Your letter of August the 15th was received in due time, and with the welcome of every thing which comes from you. With its opinions on the difficulties
- 238 LETTER CLXXVIII.--TO JOSEPH C CABELL, February 3, 1824 TO JOSEPH C CABELL.Monticello, February 3, 1824.Dear Sir, I am favored with your two letters of January the 26th and 29th, and am glad that yourself and the friends of the University are so well satis
- 239 But can they be made unchangeable? Can one generation bind another, and all others, in succession for ever? I think not. The Creator has made the earth for the living, not the dead. Rights and powrers can only belong to persons, not to things, not to mere
- 240 TO JOSEPH C. CABELL.Monticello, January 11, 1825.Dear Sir, We are dreadfully nonplussed here by the non-arrival of our three Professors. We apprehend that the idea of our opening on the 1st of February prevails so much abroad (although we have always ment
- 241 But the federal branch has a.s.sumed in some cases, and claimed in others, a right of enlarging its own powers by constructions, inferences, and indefinite deductions from those directly given, which this a.s.sembly does declare to be usurpations of the p
- 242 LETTER CXCI.--TO JAMES MADISON, February 17,1826 TO JAMES MADISON.Monticello, February 17,1826.Dear Sir, Immediately on seeing the overwhelming vote of the House of Representatives against giving us another dollar, I rode to the University and desired Mr.
- 243 To authorize a lottery in the county of Gloucester.6. Lotteries for the benefit of towns.1782. c. 31. Richmond, for a bridge over Shockoe, amount not limited.1789. c. 75. Alexandria, to pave its streets, 1500.1790. c. 46. do. do. 5000. 1796. c. 79. Norfol
- 244 We have to thank you for the model of an administration conducted on the purest principles of republicanism; for pomp and state laid aside; patronage discarded; internal taxes abolished; a host of superfluous officers disbanded; the monarchic maxim that &
- 245 August the 13th, 1791. Notes of a conversation between Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson. Th: Jefferson mentioned to him a letter received from John Adams, disavowing Publicola, and denying that he ever entertained a wish to bring this country under
- 246 July the 10th, 1792. My letter of ---- to the President, directed to him at Mount Vernon, had not found him there, but came to him here. He told me of this, and that he would take an occasion of speaking with me on the subject. He did so this day. He bega
- 247 Hamilton gave in his. I believe Knox's was never thought worth offering or asking for. Randolph gave his May the 6th, concurring with mine.The President told me, the same day, he had never had a doubt about the validity of the treaty; but that since
- 248 March the 2nd, 1797. I arrived at Philadelphia to qualify as Vice-President, and called instantly on Mr. Adams, who lodged at Francis's, in Fourth street. The next morning he returned my visit at Mr. Madison's, where I lodged. He found me alone
- 249 January the 13th. Baer and Harrison G. Otis told J. Nicholas, that in the caucus mentioned ante 10th, there wanted but five votes to produce a declaration of war. Baer was against it.January the 19th. W. C. Nicholas tells me, that in a conversation with D
- 250 2. To enable them, in their corporate capacities, to receive grants of land; and so far, is against the laws of _Mortmain_.** Though the const.i.tution controls the laws of Mortmain, so far as to permit Congress itself to hold lands for certain purposes,