Morris S. Miller for John Jay to John Barber and Solomon Southwick, 9 October 1798
Morris S. Miller for John Jay to John Barber and Solomon Southwick
Albany 9 Octo. 1798.
Gentlemen
I yesterday informed His Excellency the Governor that on applying for your account against him for the Albany Register, you observed to me that it had been sent (without being charged) to the Governor as a compliment to the first Magistrate of the State.
I am directed to signify to you, that the manner in which your Paper frequently treats the National Government and many of our most worthy and respectable public Characters will not permit him to consider or receive it as a Compliment. He therefore requests that it may in future be omitted. I am Gentlemen Your most obt. & Hum[bl]e. Servt.
LbkC, N: Governor’s Lbk. 1 (EJ: 03173).
1. Morris S. Miller (1779–1824) of New York City. Following his service for JJ, Miller moved to Utica and became involved in local politics, sitting as president of that village (1808), serving as judge of the court of common pleas (1810–24), and representing his district as a Federalist representative in Congress (1813–15).
2. John Barber (c. 1758–1808) and Solomon Southwick (1773–1839) published the Albany Register, a Republican newspaper.