This morning I received the letter, with which you was pleased to honour me the 28th of June. your medical advice, how Salutarÿ in its effect, Should, I believe, not have prompted me to answer it So Soon, had you not destroy’d its beneficial influence—by rousing all mÿ fears for the live of a man, whom you know, I love and revere. By recollecting, it appears to me, that I am unjust towards...
2To John Adams from William Plumer, 12 July 1814 (Adams Papers)
Permit me to request you to accept of the enclosed address to the Clergy. Their systematic opposition to our government evinces a spirit equally hostile to Christianity and the real interests of their country. How far I have succeeded in exposing their misconduct you will judge. I wish some abler pen, and one more at leisure, had undertaken & more fully investigated the subject. What is your...
Still no Letter from you mon Ami! I can scarcely account for this, as Mr Hall wrote me, that you had had very fine winds, for six days after your departure, from Gottenburg. I wait impatiently for tomorrow, in the hope that the Post of to day, may have brought me a few lines, at least to announce your safe arrival. the irrisistable desire I feel to offer you my sincere congratulations on your...
When I told you in my last Letter that the whole American Mission Extraordinary was here, I ought to have excepted Mr Carroll, and Mr Todd who are still lingering at Paris—Mr Carroll is attached to the mission as private Secretary to Mr Clay, and Mr Todd is of this Legation as he was of the former, a Gentilhomme d’Ambassade, quite independent in his movements, and very naturally thinking...
5Thomas C. Flournoy to Thomas Jefferson, 12 July 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the liberty of sending you the draught of a speech , which I had the honour of delivering in Frankfort on the 4 th instant . It is not because I am very much taken with my performance, but purely out of regard for the man I send it to. I have nothing better to offer, for your amusement. I should be much pleased to know your opinion, as to the consequences that will result to the U....
6Thomas Law to Thomas Jefferson, 12 July 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I was highly gratified by your favor of the 13 th Ult o from Poplar Grove . Laudari a laudato is a real satisfaction—your observations comprise in a small compass all that has been written on the important subject: the remark that selfishness is the impulse of the individual & that moral feelings are excited by another or more, simplifies all that I have endeavored to prove— few have read my...
7To James Madison from an Unidentified Correspondent, 12 July 1814 (Madison Papers)
The writer of this Communication deems it his duty as one of a suffering Community to state to the Executive of the United states that unless immediate measures are adopted to prevent the further drain of Specie from the middle & southern States that universal Bankrupcy must ensue. In gods name why not meet the Crisis firmly & utter at once fifty or one hundred millions of paper medium & make...
8To James Madison from Gulian C. Verplanck, 12 July 1814 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From Gulian C. Verplanck. 12 July 1814, New York. “G. C. Verplanck respectfully requests Mr Madison’s acceptance of the accompanying address.” RC ( DLC ). 1 p. Gulian C. Verplanck (1786–1870) was born into a wealthy New York City family and graduated from Columbia College in 1801. Active in New York politics as a Federalist and a co-founder of the Washington Benevolent Society, he became...
9Enclosure: Walter Janes to William Thornton, 12 [July] 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved your Letter dated July 1 st yesterday, enclosing a line from M r Jefferson , proposing certain questions relative to my Patent Loom, to which you request of me specific answers—and first he enquires to know if “the treadles and shuttle are compleatly worked by the stroke of the Batten ” —I answer they are—“Is it of such simplicity as that it can be made by our Country workmen, and...