1To Thomas Jefferson from Richard Langdon, 19 January 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
The Republicans of Wilmington and County of New Hanover, N.C., having understood through the Medium of the public prints, that it is your Intention voluntarily to retire from Office, after the Termination of your Appointment; and viewing the present as an important period of our political Relations, inasmuch as the violent Rage of party spirit, which at this time unhappily pervades the Union,...