1To Thomas Jefferson from Washington City Tammany Society, 8 December 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
The Tammany Society of Washington City, to the Grand Sachem of the Seventeen United Tribes of the American People. Father Your children, members of the Columbian order, a component part of the great National family over which you preside, at a time when they have reason to believe that the Calumet of Peace is about to be exchanged for the Tomahawk of War; when they are insulted and menanced by...
2From Thomas Jefferson to Washington City Tammany Society, 14 December 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
The appearances, for some time past, threatening our peace, fellow citizens, have justly excited a general anxiety, and I have been happy to recieve, from every quarter of the Union, the most satisfactory assurances of fidelity to our country, & of devotion to the support of its rights. your concurrence in these sentiments, expressed in the address you have been pleased to present me, is a...
3From Thomas Jefferson to Washington City Tammany Society, 2 March 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
The observations are but too just which are made in your friendly address on the origin & progress of those abuses of public confidence & power which have so often terminated in a suppression of the rights of the people, & the mere aggrandizement & emolument of their oppressors. taught by these truths and aware of the tendency of power to degenerate into abuse, the worthies of our own Country...