1To Thomas Jefferson from Alexander Saunders, 8 July 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Knowing that you are you have been disposed to inculcate wisdom and hoping at the same time to be excused for my pressumption, and intrution on your time I have been induced to request your opinion on a subject of importance to my feelings at this time. An ordince has been very recently passed by the common Hall of this city appropriating ‘Thirty Thousand Dollars ’ for procuring a cite and...