1To John Adams from St. George Tucker, 5 October 1800 (Adams Papers)
One who is personally unknown to you, and to whose Character you are probably equally a stranger, considers it both a Right, and a Duty to communicate to you, as chief Magistrate of the United States, a circumstance from which it seems presumable that the honor, the dignity, and integrity of the national character have been committed by persons holding honorable Commissions under the Authority...