1Thomas Jefferson to Louis Adrien Gruchet, 14 August 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 4 th is recieved and in it, the libel of the Baltimore telegraph. the abuses of a free press cannot be separated from their wholsome uses. they carry their own remedy by the absolute contempt they excite. I have never noticed them nor otherwise answered them than by the tenor of my life. this is a mere electioneering pasquinade. the world has learned to estimate justly the...