1From Thomas Jefferson to John Wrenshall, 9 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
To the Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Pittsburg in Pennsylvania. I am much indebted, fellow citizens, for your friendly address of Nov. 20. and gratified by it’s expressions of personal regard to myself. having ever been an advocate for the freedom of religious opinion & exercise, from no person, certainly, was an abridgement of these sacred rights to be apprehended less than...