1From John Adams to Clarkson Crolius, 9 December 1819 (Adams Papers)
I have received the favour of your an obliging letter which you did me the honor to write me on the 29th. November—be pleased to present my thanks to the Society of Tammany or Columbian Order for this honorable mark of their Attention I admire the frankness and fortitude with which they have censure’d a Multitude of errours and abuses in the Policy Morals and Manners of this Nation no Satire...
2From James Madison to Clarkson Crolius, [ca. 10–31 December] 1819 (Madison Papers)
I have received Sir the copy of the Address of the Society of Tammany, with which I have been politely favored. The want of economy in the use of imported articles, enters very justly into the explanation given of the causes of the present general embarrassments. Were every one to live within his income or even the savings of the prudent to exceed the deficits of the extravagant, the balance...
3Thomas Jefferson to Clarkson Crolius, 10 December 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Th Jefferson returns his respectful thanks to the President & members of the Tammany society for the favor of their address on the subjects of economy and manufactures. he has read it with pleasure and finds in it much to approve, little to doubt, and less to add. perhaps he should have added the suppression of Drawbacks among the remedies for the disease of over-trading ourselves. it is...