1From Thomas Jefferson to William Heath, 13 December 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I sincerely join you in congratulations on the return of Massachusets into the fold of the Union. this is truly the case wherein we may say ‘ this our brother was dead , and is alive again: and was lost, and is found.’ it is but too true that our union could not be pronounced entirely sound while so respectable a member as Massachusets was under morbid affection. all will now come to rights....