1To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Alston, 26 December 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I have it in charge, from the House of Representatives of this State, to transmit to you a copy of their Resolution, concurred in also by the Senate, expressive of their high sense of the value of your services, and of their wish that our Country should enjoy, during another Presidential term, the benefit of your counsels. To a mind sufficiently elevated to perceive that a Nation’s gratitude...
2From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Alston, 4 August 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your letter of July 6. covering the resolutions of the legislature of South Carolina of June 29. and I see in those resolutions a new manifestation of the National spirit of which South Carolina has given so many proofs. it is the more exemplary, as it is certain that no state sacrifices more by the operation of a measure which, whether to avoid war, or to prepare for it,...
3To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Alston, 11 February 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
To a man whose fortune is sufficiently independent to place him above the acceptance of any office of emolument ; & whose simple habits & unambitious pursuits render him equally indifferent about any office of trust or honor ; the opinion of a President of the United States can be of very little consequence. I take the trouble, therefore, of transmitting you the enclosed, not as Chief...
4From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Alston, 23 January 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved a few days ago, your favor of Dec. 26. covering the very flattering resolutions of the legislature of South Carolina, and I beg leave, through the same channel, to return the answer. it is highly consolatory to those charged with the care of the National affairs to be approved by their constituents, and to recieve assurances of their cooperation & support in whatsoever measures the...
5To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Alston, 6 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
The Legislature of South-Carolina, deeply impressed with the situation in which the U. States have been placed by the unfounded & arrogant pretensions of the belligerent Powers of Europe; & aware of the force derived; in a Government like our’s, from public opinion; have deemed it incumbent upon them, at the present crisis, to make known to the World their unalterable determination to support...