531Abigail Adams’ Directions Concerning Their Massachusetts Houses and Farms, [ca. 17 June 1789] (Adams Papers)
Mr Bass is to pay 20 Dollors pr Year and the Taxes for one half the House and the whole, of the small garden this Rent is to be paid this Year in work to me or my order Pheby is to pay four dollors a year the year to commence from July 1. st 1789 Seven months she has lived in the House to be given to her— Mrs Palmer is to pay 15 dollors pr year She is to have what is now upon the Garden, the...
532From James Madison to Edmund Randolph, 17 June 1789 (Madison Papers)
The inclosed bill relating to the Judiciary has been just introduced into the Senate. Having not yet looked it over I can say nothing of its merits. You will be a better judge, and such remarks as your leisure will permit, will be acceptable & useful. A very interesting Question is started—By whom officers appointed during pleasure by the Presidt. & Senate are to be displaced?—whether the...
533To James Madison from William Bingham, 17 June 1789 (Madison Papers)
I observe by the public Prints, that the Bill for the Establishment of the Impost has returned from the Senate, with considerable Reduction of the Duties on Several Specified Articles. I will not undertake to Scrutinize the Reasons that have urged the Amendments. But, as the Bill is now before the House of Representatives, I will take the Liberty of commenting on that part of it, which limits...
534Removal Power of the President, [17 June] 1789 (Madison Papers)
Debate continued on the clause in the bill establishing a foreign affairs department that declared the secretary could be removed from office by the president. Mr. Madison. However various the opinions which exist upon the point now before us, it seems agreed on all sides, that it demands a careful investigation and full discussion. I feel the importance of the question, and know that our...
535From Thomas Jefferson to John Jay, 17 June 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I had the honor of addressing you on the 9th. and 12th. of May by the way of London. This goes through the same channel to the care of Mr. Trumbul. Having received no letter from you of later date than the 25th. of November I am apprehensive there may have been miscarriages, and the more so as I learn, thro another channel , that you have particularly answered mine of Nov. 19. The death of the...
536Enclosure: Caractere de Monsiery Neckar, 17 June 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
La Nature donna à cet homme une passion violente pour la gloire, sans lui accorder les qualités necessaires pour ne la chercher que par des voies droites. Elle le doua d’une imagination feconde, jointe à un talent borné; ce qui l’empechera toujours d’approfondir les objets, de les combiner, et d’en saisir l’ensemble. Dans Geneve, sa patrie, il avoit probablement connu l’influence des richesses...
537To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Paine, 17 June 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I received your last to the 21st. May. I am just now informed of Msr. Parker and Cutting setting off tomorrow Morning for Paris by whom this will be delivered to you. Nothing new is stirring here. The trial of Hastings, and the Examination of evidence before the house of Commons into the Slave Trade still continue. I wrote Sir Joseph Banks an account of my Experiment Arch. In his answer he...
538Enclosure: Extract of Proceedings of the National Assembly, 17 June 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
La Chambre, assemblée vers les 10. heures du matin, lecture faite de l’arrêté de la veille, on a passé aux voix la motion suivante: Arrêté que la Chambre des communes seroit constituée sous la dénomination d’assemblée nationale. Que les deux chambres privilegiées n’ayant point fait vérifier leurs pouvoirs, pouroient et seroient admises à la dite vérification, soit ensemble ou individuelement....
539From John Adams to Richard Peters, 18 June 1789 (Adams Papers)
Success you say, in yours of the 15 th. stamps a substantial value upon measures, Yet the Motto under a Picture of O. Cromwell, is not without its Justice It is a saying in France, “We can never be ruined, for if our ruin had been possible, it would have been accomplished long ago, since the wisest Heads in France have been these hundred Years employed in doing all they could to effect it”—...
540From John Adams to James Searle, 18 June 1789 (Adams Papers)
I have received your Letter of the 10 th. and in answer to your question, I have no scruple to say, that on your arrival in Holland you appeared to me to take as effectual measures as any man could then have taken to obtain a loan to the state of Pensylvania: But that such was the situation of Affairs, that it was next to Impossible to obtain any considerable Loan for the United states Jointly...