1From John Adams to Henry Johnson, 12 June 1798 (Adams Papers)
Your Address to the Executive and Legislative Bodies of the United States has been presented to me, by your Representative in Congress Mr Thomson. Nothing can afford a more particular Satisfaction to the chosen Rulers of an extensive & growing People, than assurances that their Conduct Exertions have received the unfeigned Approbation of their Constituents and the nation in general.—With you,...
2To John Adams from Henry Johnson, 15 May 1798 (Adams Papers)
Being sensible, at the present momentous and alarming situation of our national concerns, which we believe demands from us, as an incumbent duty, an open and sincere declaration of our sentiments and wishes, relative to affairs highly interesting to us, in common with the rest of the Union, that it must afford a particular satisfaction to the heads of Government, to the chosen rulers of an...