1To Thomas Jefferson from William Gardiner, 2 September 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
The undersign’d could not have assum’d the exercise of the present Freedom, had he not been convinc’d Mr Jeffersons private Virtues added the brightest Splendor to his Title of President.— To the cold Systemist or Machine of inherited prejudice, this Application would be spurn’d with reprehensions of contempt. But seduc’d by the true Lustre of Humanity and Fame, a Young Man, without a Friend,...