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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
- 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,
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 &
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 200 Dear Sir, Your letters, Nos. 1, 2, 3, the last of them dated April the 20th, were received April the 26th. I congratulate you on your retirement to your farm, and still more that it is of a character so worthy of your attention. I much doubt whether the o
- 199 LETTER XX.--TO MR. VOLNEY, February 8, 1805 TO MR. VOLNEY.Was.h.i.+ngton, February 8, 1805.Dear Sir, Your letter of November the 26th came to hand May the 14th; the books some time after, which were all distributed according to direction.The copy for the
- 198 LETTER XV.--TO MRS. ADAMS, July 22, 1804 TO MRS. ADAMS.Was.h.i.+ngton, July 22, 1804.Dear Madam, Your favor of the 1st instant was duly received, and I would not again have intruded on you, but to rectify certain facts which seem not to have been presente
- 197 TO ELBRIDGE GERRY.Was.h.i.+ngton, March 3, 1804.Dear Sir, Although it is long since I received your favor of October the 27th, yet I have not had leisure sooner to acknowledge it. In the Middle and Southern States, as great an union of sentiment has now t
- 196 Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson.by Thomas Jefferson.LETTER I.--TO LEVI LINCOLN, August 30, 1803 TO LEVI LINCOLN.Monticello, August 30, 1803.Deak. Sir, The enclosed letter came to hand by yesterday's post.
- 195 Was.h.i.+ngton, July 11, 1803.Dear General, I accept with pleasure, and with pleasure reciprocate your congratulations on the acquisition of Louisiana: for it is a subject of mutual congratulation, as it interests every man of the nation. The territory ac
- 194 Accept a.s.surances of my constant and affectionate attachment.Th: Jefferson.LETTER CCCIII.--TO M. DUPONT, February 1, 1803 TO M. DUPONT.Was.h.i.+ngton, February 1, 1803.Dear Sir, I have to acknowledge the receipt of your favors of August the 16th and Oct
- 193 Besides the letter I wrote him in answer to the one from General Mason's, I wrote him another containing answers to two questions he addressed to me; 1. whether Mr. Jay received salary as Chief Justice and Envoy at the same time; and 2. something rel
- 192 LETTER CCXCIII.--TO JOHN d.i.c.kINSON, December 19, 1801 TO JOHN d.i.c.kINSON.Was.h.i.+ngton, December 19, 1801.Dear Sir, The approbation of my ancient friends is above all things the most grateful to my heart. They know for what objects we relinquished t
- 191 LETTER CCLx.x.xIX.--TO LEVI LINCOLN, August 26, 1801 TO LEVI LINCOLN.Monticello, August 26, 1801.Dear Sir, Your favor of July the 28th was received here on the 20th instant. The superscription of my letter of July the 11th, by another hand, was to prevent
- 190 Your favors of April the 20th and 23rd had been received, and the commission made out for Mr. Potts, before I received the letter of the 1st instant. I have still thought it better to forward the commission, in the hope that reconsideration, or the influe
- 189 Th: Jefferson.LETTER CCLx.x.xI.--TO WILLIAM B. GILES, March 23, 1801 TO WILLIAM B. GILES.Was.h.i.+ngton, March 23, 1801.Dear Sir, I received two days ago your favor of the 16th, and thank you for your kind felicitations on my election: but whether it will
- 188 TO JOEL BARLOW.Was.h.i.+ngton, March 14, 1801.Dear Sir, Not having my papers here, it is not in my power to acknowledge the receipt of your letters by their dates, but T am pretty certain I have received two in the course of the last twelve months, one of
- 187 LETTER CCLXXI.--TO JAMES MONROE, February 15, 1801 TO JAMES MONROE.Was.h.i.+ngton, February 15, 1801.Dear Sir, I have received several letters from you which have not been acknowledged. By the post I dare not, and one or two confidential opportunities hav
- 186 Th: Jefferson.LETTER CCLXVI.--TO JAMES MADISON, December 19,1800 TO JAMES MADISON.Was.h.i.+ngton, December 19,1800.Dear Sir, Mrs. Brown's departure for Virginia enables me to write confidentially what I could not have ventured by the post at this pry
- 185 Your favor of July the 19th has been received, and received with the tribute of respect due to a person, who, unurged by motives of personal friends.h.i.+p or acquaintance, and unaided by particular information, will so far exercise his justice as to adve
- 184 TO SAMUEL ADAMS.Philadelphia, February 26,1800.Dear Sir, Mr. Erving delivered me your favor of January the 31st, and I thank you for making me acquainted with him. You will always do me a favor in giving me an opportunity of knowing gentlemen as estimable
- 183 LETTER CCLII.--TO T. LOMAX, March 12, 1799 TO T. LOMAX.Monticello, March 12, 1799.Dear Sir, Your welcome favor of last month came to my hands in Philadelphia. So long a time has elapsed since we have been separated by events, that it was like a letter fro
- 182 The bill for continuing the suspension of intercourse with France and her dependencies, is still before the Senate, but will pa.s.s by a very great vote. An attack is made on what is called the Toussaint's clause, the object of which, as is charged b
- 181 I have suffered the post hour to come so nearly on me, that I must huddle over what I have more than appears in the public papers. I arrived here on Christmas day, not a single bill or other article of business having yet been brought into Senate. The Pre
- 180 The President's message says, that as the instructions were not to consent to any loan, he considers the negotiation as at an end, and that he will never send another minister to France, until he shall be a.s.sured that he will be received and treate
- 179 I am, with much esteem, Dear Sir, your must obedient, humble servant, Th: Jefferson.LETTER CCx.x.xV.--TO JAMES MADISON, May 31, 1798 TO JAMES MADISON.Philadelphia, May 31, 1798.Dear Sir, I wrote you last on the 24th; since which yours of the 20th has been
- 178 LETTER CCx.x.x.--TO JAMES MADISON, April 6, 1798 TO JAMES MADISON.Philadelphia, April 6, 1798.Dear Sir, So much of the communications from our Envoys has got abroad, and so partially, that there can now be no ground for reconsideration with the Senate. I
- 177 TO JAMES MADISON.Philadelphia, March 2, 1798.Dear Sir, I wrote to you last on the 22nd ultimo; since which I have received yours without date, but probably of April the 18th or 19th. An arrival to the eastward brings us some news, which you will see detai
- 176 Good tobacco here is thirteen dollars, flour eight dollars and fifty cents, wheat one dollar and fifty cents, but dull, because only the millers buy. The river, however, is nearly open, and the merchants will now come to market and give a spur to the pric
- 175 THOMAS JEFFERSON TO JAMES MADISON.Monticello, August 3, 1797.I scribbled you a line on the 24th ultimo: it missed of the post, and so went by a private hand. I perceive from yours by Mr. Bringhurst, that you had not received it. In fact, it was only an ea
- 174 Philadelphia, June 1, 1797.Dear Sir, I wrote you on the 18th of May. The address of the Senate was soon after that. The first draught was responsive to the speech, and higher toned. Mr. Henry arrived the day it was reported; the addressers had not yet the
- 173 There is no post where you can render greater services, without going out of your State. Let but this block stand firm on its basis, and Pennsylvania do the same, our Union will be perpetual, and our General Government kept within the bounds and form of t
- 172 Yours of December the 19th is safely received. I never entertained a doubt of the event of the election. I knew that the eastern troops were trained in the schools of their town-meetings, to sacrifice little differences of opinion to the solid advantages
- 171 Mr. Thomas Lewis, deceased, an accurate man, with a good quadrant, made the north side of the highest mountain opposite my house something more (I think) than one thousand feet; but the mountain estimated by him and myself is probably higher than that nex
- 170 LETTER CXCIV.*--TO P. MAZZEI, April 24, 1796 TO P. MAZZEI.Monticello, April 24, 1796.Mr Dear Friend, [* The first part of this letter is on private business, and is therefore omitted.]The aspect of our politics has wonderfully changed since you left us.In
- 169 I know not when I have received greater satisfaction than on reading the speech of Dr. Leib, in the Pennsylvania a.s.sembly. He calls himself a new member. I congratulate honest republicanism on such an acquisition, and promise myself much from a career w
- 168 THOMAS JEFFERSON TO JAMES MADISON.Monticello, September 21,1795.I received, about three weeks ago, a box containing six dozen volumes, of two hundred and eighty-three pages, 12mo. with a letter from Lambert, Beckley's clerk, that they came from Mr. B
- 167 Dear Sir, I have kept Mr. Jay's letter a post or two, with an intention of considering attentively the observations it contains: but I have really now so little stomach for any thing of that kind, that I have not resolution enough even to endeavor to
- 166 Dear Sir, I have to thank you for the transmission of the letters from General Gates, La Motte, and Hauterive. I perceive by the latter, that the partisans of the one or the other principle (perhaps of both) have thought my name a convenient cover for dec
- 165 Sir, In a former letter which I had the honor of writing you, I mentioned that information had been received that M. Duplaine, Vice-Consul of France, at Boston, had been charged with an opposition to the laws of the land, of such a character, as, if true,
- 164 It is with concern, however, I am obliged to observe, that so marked has been the inattention of the British court to every application which has been made to them on any subject, by this government (not a single answer I believe having ever been given to
- 163 Th: Jefferson.** A copy of the preceding letter was sent, enclosed by the Secretary of State, to Mr. Genet.LETTER CLXIV.--CIRCULAR TO THE MERCHANTS OF THE U.S., August 23, 1793 CIRCULAR TO THE MERCHANTS OF THE UNITED STATES.Philadelphia, August 23, 1793,
- 162 In consequence of the information given in your letter of the 4th instant, that certain citizens of St. Domingo, lately arrived in the United States, were a.s.sociating for the purpose of undertaking a military expedition from the territory of the United
- 161 2. Furnis.h.i.+ng them with provisions and arms.3. Aiming at the occupation of a post at the _Ecores Amargas_.4. Giving medals and marks of distinction to several Indians.5. Meddling with the affairs of such as are allies of Spain.6. Not using efficacious
- 160 We shall endeavor to get your newspapers under the care of Major Read, the bearer of this letter.I have the honor to be, with great respect and esteem, Dear Sir, your most obedient and most humble servant, Th: Jefferson.LETTER CLVI.--TO MR. PINCKNEY, June
- 159 Grand._Letter from Mr. Durival to Mr. Grand_.Versailles, August 30, 1786.Sir, I have received the letter which you did me the honor to write the 28th of this month, touching the advance of a million, which you say was made by the General Farm to the Unite
- 158 TO MR. HAMMOND.Philadelphia, June 5, 1793.Sir, In the letter which I had the honor of writing you on the 15th of May, in answer to your several memorials of the 8th of that month, I mentioned that the President reserved for further consideration, a part o
- 157 I have the honor to be, with sentiments of great respect, Sir, your most obedient and most humble servant, Th: Jefferson.[* The parts of this letter which are mere repet.i.tions of what is contained in the preceding, to the British Minister, are omitted.]
- 156 LETTER CXLV.--TO M. DE TERNANT, May 3,1793 TO M. DE TERNANT.Philadelphia, May 3,1793.Sir, The Minister Plenipotentiary of his Britannic Majesty has represented to the government of the United States, that on the 25th of April last, the British s.h.i.+p Gr
- 155 [The letter of the Attorney General, referred to in the preceding.]TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE.Philadelphia, April 12, 1793.Sir, You will perceive from the two letters marked A. and B. of which I enclose copies, that the subject of Mr. Pagan has been for so
- 154 TO COLONEL HUMPHREYS.Philadelphia, March 21, 1793.Sir, The death of Admiral Paul Jones first, and afterwards of Mr. Barclay, to whom the mission to Algiers, explained in the enclosed papers, was successively confided, have led the President to desire you
- 153 TO THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.Philadelphia, February 20, 1793.Sir, The House of Representatives, about the close of the session before the last, referred to me the report of a committee on a message from the President of the United States
- 152 Foreign goods, except some East India articles, are received in the vessels of any nation.Our s.h.i.+ps may be sold and naturalized there, with exceptions of one or two privileges, which scarcely lessen their value.In the American possessions of the Unite
- 151 The first, I presume, is intended as a basis for the adoption of that alternative of the report on measures and weights, which proposed retaining the present system, and fixing its several parts by a reference to a rod vibrating seconds, under the circ.u.