1To Thomas Jefferson from Henry Tazewell, 1 July 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
The Treaty between the U States and Gt. Britain having found its way to the press , I am enabled this Morning to transmit you a Copy. If your anxiety has been excited in the same degree with others to see this famous Negotiation, it is not unlikely that the perusal of it, will give rise to some of those Sentiments which have been produced here. It was consented to by the Senate 20 to 10, upon...
2To Thomas Jefferson from Henry Tazewell, 1 February 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
Your Letter of the 16th. January was lately delivered to me by Mr. Madison. On examination, I found the proceedings on the two former Elections for President and V. President, had been as you stated them. When a proper occasion presented itself I intended to make the most adviseable use of your communication, as to the mode of notifying you of the appointment which should fall to your lot. But...
3To Thomas Jefferson from Henry Tazewell, 5 July 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed, will shew you the state in which the Senate yesterday passed Mr Loyd’s Sedition Bill —The passage of this Bill thro the Senate excited some clamour in the City, and this has begotten a belief that the measure will not obtain the sanction of the H of R—The question however for its second reading obtained to day 36 to 47—I am not quite sure that the Bill will finally assume the...
4To Thomas Jefferson from Henry Tazewell, 12 July 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
Since I last wrote you, the H of R have passed our Sedition Bill, with the inclosed amendments —The amendments were this day agreed to in the Senate; So that when the President has approved the act it will be composed of those parts of our Bill which were retained, and the inclosed amendments unaltered by us—That he will approve it, is not doubtful—The principle being established, it is but of...
5To Thomas Jefferson from Henry Tazewell, 7 December 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
My intention was to have been in Philadelphia on the first day of the present Session of Congress, if my health would have allowed me—But an autumnal fever with which I was attacked last August immediately after my return home, has not permited me to enjoy one day of health since that time—As the Winter comes on I hope I shall get the better of it—but it cannot be, that I shall be able to...