1From John Jay to Noah Worcester, 21 June 1819 (Jay Papers)
I have rec d . and thank you for the Copy of the Memorial against privateering, and of the number of “the Friend of Peace,[”] which you had the Goodness to send me on the 1 st . Instant. The Object of the Memorial meets with my approbation, tho’ not entirely for the Reasons specified in it. The Memorial states that “Crimes of the deepest Die abound in the Land”— and that much of their...