1To John Adams from Robert Treat Paine, 27 July 1799 (Adams Papers)
The enclosed Oration I have taken the liberty to inscribe to “ the man, whom his country loves & honors, because he loves & honors his country ,” in the hope (perhaps a presumptuous one,) that, as it was written in a period too circumscribed to acquire a correct knowledge of documents, & printed in a manner too hasty to permit revision either of style or sentiment, it may escape censure from...