183151Enclosure: Invoice for Freight and Duties, 4 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Paid freight to Washington for 1 Barrell Mississippi Water $ . 67 Porterage . 66 freight to the Owners of the Ship Eliza for 1 Butt of Sherry Wine 11. 00 Do. " " Edward for 2 pipes Lisbon Do 10. 50 Duties on 1 Butt Sherry Wine 55. 44 Do " 2 pipes Lisbon Do 82. 50
183152To James Madison from an Unidentified Correspondent, [ca. 19 February 1815] (Madison Papers)
The most lamentable delusion seems to have prevailed in the formation of every plan for the establishment of a national Bank which has hitherto been submitted for the consideration of Congress. Your objections to the Bill which you lately returned to the Senate are correct and conclusive as far as relates to its capacity of being useful to the public or private interests of the country during...
183153To James Madison from an Unidentified Correspondent, [19 November] 1812 (Madison Papers)
Since the perusal of your late Message, I have been led to reflect upon the actual situation of our country, of which your communication to Congress professes to be a faithful exposition; and as I cannot bring my mind to the same results with your Excellency, I trust you will allow me the liberty of expressing some doubts, with my reasons for them, in regard to the prosperous state of our...
183154[From Alexander Hamilton to the Speaker of the House of Representatives], 10 January 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
The Resolution of the House of Representatives of the 27th of December last, having been considered as contemplating foreign Loans only, the Statements rendered to the House on the 3d instant, were confined merely to those objects. But lest a greater latitude should have been intended by that resolution, I have the honor to transmit herewith a supplementary Statement, No. V, which contains the...
183155From Benjamin Franklin to the Speaker and Committee of Correspondence of the Pennsylvania Assembly, 22 August 1766 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Yale University Library In mine of June 10th. I acquainted you that I was about to make a Journey for the Establishment of my Health. I accordingly went to Pyrmont, where I drank the Waters some Days; but relying more on the Air and Exercise of Travelling, I proceeded to Hanover, and from thence thro’ Cassel to Frankfurt and Mentz, thence down the Rhine to Cologne, and so thro’ Treves to...
183156Note on an Advertisement for Land on the Ohio River, 15 July 1773 (Franklin Papers)
The advertisement, dated July 15, 1773, and signed by George Washington at Mount Vernon, was printed in The Maryland Journal and Baltimore Advertiser and in the Pennsylvania Gazette ; it solicited applications for land grants in twenty thousand acres at the mouth of the Great Kanawha River. Its authorship has been attributed to Franklin, with no evidence but with admiration for his skill in...
183157The Origins of Freneau’s National Gazette, 25 July 1791 (Editorial Note) (Madison Papers)
Alarmed by the blatant partisanship of John Fenno’s Gazette of the United States , which JM and Jefferson grew to distrust after the publisher’s support of Alexander Hamilton became more apparent in the winter of 1790–91, the two republicans began seeking a journalistic counterbalance. Philip Freneau seemed to have all the qualifications. He was a trustworthy republican (Freneau and JM had...
183158From Benjamin Franklin to William Franklin, 25 August 1766 (Franklin Papers)
Extract: reprinted from [Jared Sparks, ed.,] A Collection of the Familiar Letters and Miscellaneous Papers of Benjamin Franklin (Boston, 1833), p. 275. I can now only add, that I will endeavour to accomplish all that you and our friends desire relating to the settlement westward. The scheme for establishing an Illinois colony in which WF was one of the principal movers. See above, pp. 257 n,...
183159Madison in the Third Congress, 2 December 1793–3 March 1795 (Editorial Note) (Madison Papers)
During the last days of the Second Congress, JM made his longest speech of the session in support of William Branch Giles’s resolutions censuring Alexander Hamilton’s official conduct as secretary of the treasury ( PJM Robert A. Rutland et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison: Presidential Series (1 vol. to date; Charlottesville, Va., 1984—). , 14:456–68 and nn.). The result was predictable....
183160Editorial Note: Documents on the Rice Trade (Jefferson Papers)
When Jefferson wrote Washington a conditional letter of acceptance of the office of secretary of state, he pointed out that “The ground I have already passed over enables me to see my way into that which is before me. The change of government, too … seems to open a possibility of procuring from the new rulers some new advantages in commerce which may be agreeable to our countrymen.” In the...