1921From Thomas Jefferson to John Henry, 31 December 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Tazewell has communicated to me the enquiries you have been so kind as to make relative to a passage in the Notes on Virginia, which has lately excited some newspaper publications. I feel with great sensibility the interest you take in this business and with pleasure go into explanations with one whose objects I know to be truth and justice alone. Had Mr. Martin thought proper to suggest...
1922From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Tazewell, 31 December 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
I found that my statement would be too long to give you the trouble of copying in the form of a narrative from yourself as had been at first proposed. I therefore wrote it in a letter directly to Mr. Henry himself. Indeed I thought it a proper respect for the candid views with which he seemed to ask explanations. While it is in your hands make what use of it you judge expedient by permitting...
1923To John Adams from Citizens of Stockbridge, 1798 (Adams Papers)
At a time when our Country is convulsed by different and opposite political opinions and views, when national Councils are divided and embarrassed, the efforts of patriotism retarded, and measures necessary for self-defence, and the protection of its property and independent rights fail of that promptitude which alone can insure, or promise, the best effects, it may justly be considered both...
1924To John Adams from Robert Wharton, 1798 (Adams Papers)
At a moment, when dangers threaten the peace and prosperity of the United States, when foreign insolence and rapine, have deeply wounded our national honor, and injured our lawful commerce, it is presumed the Mayor, Aldermen, and Citizens of the City of Philadelphia will not be unwelcome, when they come forward to assure you of their perfect approbation of your administration & their entire...
1925From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Hamilton, [1798] (Hamilton Papers)
[ 1798 ]. “I am almost ready to abandon every thing & fly to you—But I am so entangled with war & law that it is impossible.” Copy, Columbia University Libraries.
1926From Alexander Hamilton to Martin S. Wilkins, [1798] (Hamilton Papers)
[ 1798 ]. Acknowledges receipt of Wilkins’s “notice as to the Trial between Gouverneur and Kemble and Gomez Lopez & Rivera.” ADf , Miscellaneous Papers in Chancery, Court of Appeals, Albany. H wrote this letter as attorney for Louis Le Guen in his suit against Isaac Gouverneur and Peter Kemble. As the letter calendared above indicates, Gouverneur and Kemble were in turn the plaintiffs in a...
1927Memorandum Books, 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
Jan. 1. Gave printer’s boys .5. 3. Pd. for pamphlets 1. 4. Pd. printers boys .5. J. Barnes has recd. my Quarter’s salary ending Dec. 31 towit 1250. & deducting his commn. 6.50 leaves 1243.5. Recd. of J. Barnes cash 50.D. D.
1928From Alexander Hamilton to James Monroe, [January 1798] (Hamilton Papers)
A resolution long formed to act with deliberation in any case which should involve the extremity, to which I am now driven, has occasionned me to defer my reply to your letter of the first instant. Though I have it in my power completely to satisfy any candid mind, that I never give a shadow of cause for the resentment you avow; yet the indelicate doubt of the veracity of my representation to...
1929Remarks in January [1798] (Washington Papers)
1. Much rain fell last night & a thick fog, with a Southerly Wind continued all the forenoon, clear afterwards. Mer. abt. 32. 2. Clear with the Wind (tho’ not much of it) at No. Wt. Mer. abt. 30. A Mr. Elliot came to dinnr. and stayed all Night. mr. elliot : Barnard Elliott, Jr. (c.1777–1806), only son of Lt. Col. Barnard Elliott (d. 1778), a former member of the King’s Council in South...
1930From John Adams to United States Senate, 1 January 1798 (Adams Papers)
I nominate Arthur Sinclair to be Governor of the Territory of the United States North West of the River Ohio for another Period established by Law DNA : RG 46—Records of the U.S. Senate.