1Seventy-Six Association to Thomas Jefferson, 15 July 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
), declaring that the best way for the United States to “ensure to our posterity, the beatitude we inherit” is to study the model of “Our revolutionary ancestors” (p. 4); celebrating American victories in the War of 1812; asserting that European nations have begun emulating the ...the circumstances leading to the War of 1812 and highlighting TJ, “who had devoted all his life to public service...
2Seventy-Six Association to Thomas Jefferson, 24 July 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
and recalling the victorious battles of the War of 1812; celebrating American forms of government as founded on “equal rights, and its principal ornament, the universal happiness, of all classes of citizens” (p. 20);