31To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 4 September 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
In the Course of public business it has been my lot and duty to meet a gentleman, who held a quadrennial situation on the first Wednesday in Decembr.—He had been recently in the army and is, as you will perceive, in the Senate. The inclosed voluntary letter (from the original on public file,) will prove how little calculation is to be made upon that determined hostility to me, which rival and...
32To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 13 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I beg you to excuse the liberty & the inconvenience of this application, & to believe that Nothing would induce to the step but the imperious dictates of duty to a family whose interests for more than twenty years I have greatly neglected. Thus circumstanced I reflect with seriousness & not without sensitivity that the time approaches when your retirement from public life will prevent my...
33To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 24 January 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
The immense objects, for which the nations of Europe began to contend at the Commencement of the French revolution, excited a Spirit of Military enthusiasm unequalled in the history of Mankind. The numerous potentates combined against France, dreading the extension of the republican principle, underwent a corresponding excitement. The hierarchies and the aristocracies of rank and property,...
34To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 6 April 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the honor to receive your letter of the 27th. Ultimo, and as I consider it to be your expectation, that nothing will be said on the first subject—to which it relates, I govern myself accordingly. In regard to those attentions to the public interests, which you are good enough to characterize as assiduous and useful, they are the result of a sense of duty. The “Res augusto donis,”...
35To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 1 October 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Being this day informed that the death of the late worthy Collector of this Port has taken place, I do myself the honor most respectfully to submit myself to your consideration as a candidate for that situation. As the Office has a direct relation to that pursuit in life to which I was regularly bred, and in which I have been habituated by practice, I respectfully trust that this step will not...
36To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 22 May 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
The subject of naval power is agitated every day in our seaports, Towns, because the Editors of Newspapers live by the patronage of persons interested in Trade. Discussions on the opposite side rarely appear. I have formed some opinions on the subject, which seemed worthy of examination. It seems idle to labor much for the profits of foreign trade, and to spend more money yearly in what is...
37To Thomas Jefferson from Tench Coxe, 23 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
A gentleman of this place called upon me to day and stated to me the receipt of a letter by him evidencing some kind intentions towards me. There appears to be a necessity of making some remarks and explanations, which I hope will be excused. The reason of mentioning the object in a letter (covered to the Secy of State) from this place, was the certainty represented to me of a vacancy—the...