RC (DLC); dateline at foot of text; endorsed by TJ as received 3 Aug. 1822 and so recorded in SJL. Enclosure: Loring, An Address, delivered at the request of the Republican Committee of Arrangements, on the Anniversary of Independence, Fourth July, A.D. 1822. Charlestown, Mass. (Boston, 1822), celebrating American independence, an event “destined to illuminate the most distant and degraded nations” (p. 5); hoping that the current generation will merge the doctrines of their revolutionary forefathers with those of Jesus in order to destroy tyranny and superstition; stressing the importance of education, good parenting, simple habits, and the exercise of every republican virtue; emphasizing the necessity of preserving the Union, the dissolution of which would exacerbate sectional jealousies and probably end in armed conflict; warning of the dangers posed by luxury, speculation, and the accumulation of power by the well-to-do living in large cities; and praising TJ’s administration, as “a practical exposition of the principles of our constitution,” and lauding the “simple dignity with which Jefferson clothed his rank as first republican of the world” (p. 19).