1Thomas Jefferson to James T. Austin, 13 February 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you, Sir, for the paper inclosed in yours of Jan. 20. I think with you that there is no good in lessening the responsibility of judges. their independance on a king is a good thing; but independence on the nation is a bad one. here we have copied England where we ought not. but we have omitted to copy what ought to have been copied, removability on the simple concurrence of the two...
2Thomas Jefferson to James T. Austin, 23 July 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you for the very splendid morsel of eloquence which you have been so kind as to send me . it is a happy and pregnant example to the orators of the 4 th of July, of change from the hackneyed topics of 1776, to those of the current year. I have read it with sensations very different from those which will be felt by our recreant citizens of the East. if theirs be sensations of sorrow ‘ I...