1To Thomas Jefferson from John Browne Cutting, 20 April 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
The elevation of their fellow citizen to preside among millions of intelligent freemen—over a cluster of genuine republics, obedient, members of one great, durable, and growing Empire—is doubtless a dignified and dignifying Spectacle. The philosophic contemplate it with hope, and it is an object that fills a wide space in the eye of mankind But to the Individual (like myself) an equal lover of...