MS (DNA: RG 59, LAR, 3:0375); undated; entirely in TJ’s hand on scrap of paper.

Pierce Butler stopped in Washington in May and again in October 1801 and probably conversed with TJ both times. At TJ’s behest Butler also provided assessments of South Carolina political leaders in his letters (TJ to Butler, 26 Aug. 1801; Butler to TJ, 3, 19 Sep. 1801).

Sometime prior to his dismissal from office in May 1800, Timothy Pickering informed Charleston editors Peter Freneau and Seth Paine, publishers of the City Gazette and Daily Advertiser, that they would no longer be printing the laws of the United States for South Carolina. Laws enacted by the Sixth Congress instead appeared in the South-Carolina State Gazette, and Timothy’s Daily Advertiser, published by Benjamin Franklin Timothy (City Gazette and Daily Advertiser, 25 Mch. 1799, 24 Mch. 1800; South-Carolina State Gazette, and Timothy’s Daily Advertiser, 10 Mch. 1800). Butler described Timothy as “a bad young man” and Charles Pinckney described his paper as “one of the most high toned & abusive federal Papers in the Union—one supported almost entirely by the British Interest here & which still continues it’s abuse” (Madison, Papers, Sec. of State Ser. description begins J. C. A. Stagg, ed., The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, Charlottesville, 1986–, 8 vols. description ends , 1:229–30; 2:181–2). A different firm: John McIver and David R. Williams replaced Freneau and Paine as publishers of the City Gazette and Daily Advertiser on 1 Jan. 1801 (Brigham, American Newspapers description begins Clarence S. Brigham, History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690–1820, Worcester, Mass., 1947, 2 vols. description ends , 2:1026).