1Noah Worcester to Thomas Jefferson, 18 October 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
Although a stranger to you I take the liberty of addressing you on a subject deeply interesting to humanity. I am encouraged to do this by a recollection of some things in your state papers which I then regarded as indications that you had become convinced of the impolicy of war, and that you wished to avoid a rupture with foreign nations. Near the close of the late war, I was some how excited...
2Thomas Jefferson to Noah Worcester, 29 January 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter bearing date Oct 18. 1815. came only to hand the day before yesterday, which is mentioned to explain the date of mine. I have to thank you for the pamphlets accompanying it, to wit, the Solemn review, the Friend of peace or Special interview, & the Friend of peace N o 2. the first of these I had received thro’ another channel some months ago. I have not read the two last steadily...
3Noah Worcester to Thomas Jefferson, 31 October 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
As, in pursuing the cause of peace, I make a free use of your name And your writings, it is but just that I should Submit to your inspection what I publish to your inspection. For this reason I put into the post office directed to you No’s 4 And 5 of the Friend of Peace, And shall now Send No. 6. It is my Aim to be impartial, but I Am liable to misapprehend. If in Any thing I have mistaken...
4Noah Worcester to Thomas Jefferson, 22 October 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose a copy of the Letters received from Russia . The Trustees have elected Prince Alexander Galitzin an honorary member of the Massachusetts Peace P S ociety . He is now the only honorary member. Pacific principles are rapidly gaining ground in our country; and I have just received letters from a formidable Peace Society in London . The unanimous respect which has recently been shown to...
5Thomas Jefferson to Noah Worcester, 26 November 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
You have not been mistaken in supposing my views and feelings to be in favor of the abolition of war. of my disposition to maintain peace until it’s condition shall be made less tolerable than that of war itself, the world has had proofs, and more perhaps than it has approved. I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind & morals of society, to lessen the disposition to war; but of it’s...
6Noah Worcester to Thomas Jefferson, 20 September 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Some months ago a Proposed Memorial was published in this vicinity to call the attention of our countrymen to the enormities of privateering, and to prepare the way for bringing the subject before Congress . But a question has arisen, whether it will not be better to extend the prayer of the Memorial to all maratime depredations, according to a former treaty with Prussia . The subject is under...
7Thomas Jefferson to Noah Worcester, 1 October 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved the Memorial you have been so kind as to forward me, with the letter of Sep. 20. desiring my opinion on the proposition to suppress privateering in time of war. of that my opinion is recorded in the 4 th Article of the instructions of Congress of May 7. 1784. to their Ministers commissioned to enter into treaties of amity and commerce with the several powers of Europe...