1To John Adams from Thomas Jefferson, 24 May 1797 (Adams Papers)
The Senate of the United States request you to accept their acknowledgments for the comprehensive and interesting detail you have given, in your speech to both Houses of Congress, on the existing state of the Union. While we regret the necessity of the present meeting of the Legislature, we wish to express our entire approbation of your conduct in convening it on this momentous occasion. The...
2To John Adams from Jacob Read, 28 November 1797 (Adams Papers)
The communications you thought proper to make in your speech to both Houses of Congress, on the opening of their present session, afford additional proofs of the attention, integrity, and firmness, which have always marked your official character. We cannot but approve of the measures you had taken to ascertain the state and decline of the contagious sickness, which has so lately afflicted the...
3The Senate to John Adams, [23 May 1797] (Jefferson Papers)
The Senate of the United States request you to accept their acknowledgments for the comprehensive and interesting detail you have given, in your speech to both Houses of Congress, on the existing state of the Union. While we regret the necessity of the present meeting of the Legislature, we wish to express our entire approbation of your conduct in convening it on this momentous occasion. The...
4Senate Resolution on William Blount, [11 January 1799] (Jefferson Papers)
that the matter alledged in the plea of the def. is sufficient in law to shew that this court ought not to hold jurisdiction of the said impeachment, and that the said impeachmt be dismissed MS ( DNA : RG 46, Senate Records, 5th Cong., 3d sess.); in TJ’s hand in pencil; at head of text in Samuel A. Otis’s hand: “This Court is of opinion”; endorsed by Otis: “Motion that Wm Blount be dismissed...
5To John Adams from United States Senate, 23 December 1799 (Adams Papers)
The Senate of the United States respectfully take leave, sir, to express to you their deep regret for the loss their country sustains in the death of General George Washington. This event, so distressing to all our fellow–citizens, must be peculiarly heavy to you, who have long been associated with him in deeds of patriotism. Permit us, sir, to mingle our tears with yours: on this occasion it...
6To John Adams from United States Senate, 9 May 1800 (Adams Papers)
The Senate proceeded to consider the Message of the President of the United States of the 7th. instant and the nomination contained therein, of The Honorable John Marshall, Esqr. of Virginia, to be Secretary of the department of War, in the place of the Honorable James McHenry, Esqr. who has requested that he may be permitted to resign, and that his resignation be accepted, to take place on...
7To John Adams from United States Senate, 20 May 1797 (Adams Papers)
The Senate of the U. States, request you to accept their acknowledgements, for the comprehensive and interesting detail, you have given, of the existing state of the Union.— And while we regret the necessity of the present meeting, we wish to express our entire approbation of your conduct, in convening the Legislature, on this momentous occasion.— As the Guardianship of our national Faith,...
8To John Adams from United States Senate, 9 December 1799 (Adams Papers)
Accept, sir, the respectful acknowledgments of the Senate of the United States for your speech delivered to both Houses of Congress at the opening of the present session. While we devoutly join you in offering our thanks to Almighty God for the return of health to our cities and for the general prosperity of the country, we can not refrain from lamenting that the arts and calumnies of...
9Senate Resolution on Appointment of Charles C. Pinckney, [5 June 1797] (Jefferson Papers)
Resolved that the Senate do advise and consent to the appointment of Chas. Cotesworth Pinckney as one of 3. envoys extraordinary and Min. Plenipotentiary with joint and several powers to the republic of France. MS ( DNA : RG 46, Senate Records, 5th Cong., 1st sess.); entirely in TJ’s hand; with emendations as noted below; conjoined with canceled passage at top of page in TJ’s hand: “and...
10To John Adams from United States Senate, 24 May 1797 (Adams Papers)
1 The Senate of the United States request you to accept their acknowledgments for the comprehensive and interesting detail you have given, in your Speech to both Houses of Congress, on the existing state of the Union. 2d While we regret the necessity of the present meeting of the Legislature, we wish to express our entire approbation of your conduct in convening it, on this momentous occasion....