1To Thomas Jefferson from Hugh Henry Brackenridge, 17 February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Just about to leave this place to which I will not return until the first of June next. In the mean time shall be in Philadelphia and on the circuit. The event of your Presidency has most probably by this time taken place, at least designation of taking place on the fourth of March next. I think it morally impossible that the vote of Congress could ultimately be contrary to the voice of the...
2To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Leiper, 17 February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I have this day examined nine Hogsheads of your Tobacco and find none of them have been Wet & Dried again—It is true one of them is a little wet but when it received this damage none can tell it might have been in comming down your River or it might have received it on its way to Philadelphia but it is so extremely little that I think there is nothing due on the Score of Damage. Six of the...
3To Thomas Jefferson from George Meade, 17 February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Interested as I am & every man in America must & ought to be, you must no doubt suppose I am exceedingly Concernd & very desirous of knowing the result of the Election for President of the United States. you may remember that I informd You, how much I was hurt by Mr Adams behaviour respecting the Oration deliverd at our Chappel, nevertheless I am free to declare I wishd him from his long...
4To Thomas Jefferson from Nicholas J. Roosevelt, 17 February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I understand sir! that the bill to incorporate a company to work mines and manufacture Metals in the United States is now before your house I hope you will pardon the liberty I have taken of addressing you on the subject of the Bill when I inform you that I have for several years past been strugling with all the means I could command to make this business successful and find after committing...
5To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Perkins, 18 February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Inclosed you will find a Plan for a Capitol for a Column or Pilaster upon a new Principle the Stripes is an Emblem of the United States Supported by two Cornucopia’s Emblems of Plenty the Oak Leafes & acorns are an Emblem of Freedom an Extinguished Torch an Emblem of Death the Drooping willow Emblem of Mourning— I have Made Some Progress in Drawing a Mausoleum Connected with a Semenary of...
6To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Stoddert, 18 February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
My health & my private affairs have for sometime required more of my attention than the duties of my office would permit me to give to them; and I have therefore been anxious to relinquish my official situation, which would have been done before this time, had Mr Adams been re-elected, for in that event he could have found no difficulty in supplying my vacancy. Thus circumstanced, I hope you...
7To Thomas Jefferson from Caspar Wistar, 18 February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I should have replied sooner to your favour of Feby. 3d. but I did not wish to intrude upon you at a period so awfully important to our Country—the accounts we have received this day (from Washington on Sunday) are such as give us great reason to hope that some of the Gentlemen to whom accident has given the power to decide will have obeyed the dictates of reason & finished the dispute before...
8To Thomas Jefferson from Stephen Thorn, 19 February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Some time in December last, I had the honour of sending you by post, a large packet of Letters from Mr Paine at Paris, particularly entrusted to my care by the writer, which with the books accompanying the same, I hope you have received.—Permit me to congratulate you on your late appointment to the Office of President of the United States—It will greatly add to the triumph of Republican...
9To Thomas Jefferson from John Adams, 20 February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
In order to save you the trouble and Expence of purchasing Horses and Carriages, which will not be necessary, I have to inform you that I shall leave in the stables of the United States seven Horses and two Carriages with Harness the Property of the United States. These may not be suitable for you: but they will certainly save you a considerable Expence as they belong to the studd of the...
10To Thomas Jefferson from Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 20 February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Vous n’avez jamais eu qu’ un Vice . Je fais mon compliment à votre Patrie et aux deux Mondes de ce qu’enfin vous l’avez perdu. Salut et respect. You have never had but one vice . I compliment your fatherland and both worlds on the fact that you have finally lost it. Greetings and respect. RC ( MHi ); at head of text in English: “To greatest Man in greatest Place of the United States”; endorsed...
11To Thomas Jefferson from Josef Ignacio de Viar, 20 February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
The agreeable News, which Reached us yesterday Morning of your Election to the Presidential Chair, have afforded me singular satisfaction, and Now beg, you will accept of my most sincere congratulation on the Occassion. I have the honor to be with great esteem, and Respect Sir Your most obt and humble Servt RC ( DLC ); at foot of text: “Thoms. Jefferson Esqr. Vice-President of the United...
12To Thomas Jefferson from George Logan, 20 February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I congratulate you & our Country on the determination of the important question in which every real friend to his Country found himself deeply interested. I received a Letter last evening from our friend John Dickinson of Wilmington, no man is more anxious for the republican cause. The Legislature of this State have continued in Session to this time, in order to take measures in case of an...
13To Thomas Jefferson from James Lyon, 20 February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
The important contest in which the friends of Liberty have been so long and so arduously engaged, having been so happily decided, I cannot refrain from congratulating you, and through you, Mankind, not one of whom but must, more or less, sooner or later, participate in the benefits immediately or remotely resulting from the present triumph of republican Principles.— As the period will very...
14To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas McKean, 20 February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 2d. instant did not come to hand until last Saturday night; I had written a long answer, and detailed my intended operations in case of a certain unfortunate event in the decision of the House of Representatives of the U.S. Engaged in this work a little before eleven this forenoon our Express arrived from Washington with letters from my friends, announcing the glorious...
15To Thomas Jefferson from Stephen Sayre, 20 February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I am honor’d with your answer , so far as it was, then in your power to reply—and I am truly sensible of your kindness. We have now the grateful sound of bells & cannon, on the happy event, of your election.—to us, who have risque’d our future hopes, on the issue, who deem’d our country lost, or saved, by the result, you must suppose it was music to the soul—to others, the news was like the...
16To Thomas Jefferson from John Wright, 20 February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Having lately arrived in this City with the view of erecting sundry patent Machines to facilitate the business of agriculture, I take the liberty of addressing you for the purpose of knowing, whether you will be pleased to accept of one, to cut straw upon a principle different from Any now in use—. If this offir should be accepted, I will with pleasure forward the machine to any place you...
17To Thomas Jefferson from John Dickinson, 21 February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Amidst the many and important Affairs that must engage thy Attention at this Time, my Heart impells Me to congratulate our Country and of Course thyself, on thy Promotion to the high Office of presiding over her Wellfare. What I have felt for several Years, and what I now hope, it is needless and would be difficult to express. As to the past, as far as I am enabled to form a Judgment, I...
18To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Fay, 21 February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I can not let so fair an opportunity pass for renewing my former acquaintance with you, and of offering my Warmest Congratulations upon your being placed at the Head of our Government, an event which fills the hearts of all true Republicans with joy! the more so (if possible) from the unwarrantable opposition which has been made. This last act of Fœderalism went far towards filling up the...
19To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Gourlay, 22 February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Entreating you will pardon the liberty I now take, not having the honor of being known to Your Excellency.—& complying with Mr. Jenings request, by the accompanying letter, I have the pleasure to enclose, the suppos’d necessary papers , for your acceptance, of what we are willing to persuade ourselves, (from your very kind Correspondence with Mrs. Randolph,) your Excellency will be so obliging...
20To Thomas Jefferson from Elijah Griffiths, 22 February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
The United States have now time to contemplate the late astonishing political Scenery. That incongruous aggregation; the high toned federal faction, the staunch old tories, the whole tribe of English renegadoes & apostate Americans, with views widely distinct from each other. Again the Lancasten & Spartan band, the conflagration of public offices and the last expiring struggle in congress;...
21To Thomas Jefferson from Israel Israel, 22 February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Permit me to offer at this time my congratulations on the triumph of the principles of republicanism over the deep laid plans of monarchy and despotism, You Sir under the will of heaven is placed in a situation to be enabled to give new life and vigor to the drooping Cause of Liberty and the rights of Man in America, and to you do the People look up to for the opperation and true effects that...
22To Thomas Jefferson from James Martin, 22 February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I am somewhat in the Situation (upon being asked for a Letter of introduction to you) of the French Captain described by Sterne , who first introduces his friend and then himself. Capt. Lewis who has the honour to deliver this held an Office under the late Administration which he is desirous, I believe, to renew under yours—. His Testimonials I understand are ample and I am incompent to add to...
23To Thomas Jefferson from William Munson, 22 February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I Congratulate you and Myself on your Election as President of the United States, the News of which arrived here Last Evening You No doubt remember, that at the time that I delivered to you the Votes of the Electors of the State of Connecticut, that I informed you that I was the Surveyor of the District of New Haven, and that there was a probability that the office of the Collector would Soon...
24To Thomas Jefferson from James Thomson Callender, 23 February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I am to get out of this place in ten days, upon my having paid a fine of two hundred dollars. The money is ready; but if I am to pay it, I shall be so much reduced in my finances, as hardly to be able to go up to Philadelphia. Mr. Jones has advised me to state the matter to you, with reference to a remission. I thought it my duty to do so; and under the supposition of that, I shall wait here...
25To Thomas Jefferson from Catherine Church, 23 February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
At a moment when called by the voice of a nation to its highest station congratulations flow to you from all quarters shall an insignificant individual of it presume to offer you her’s. Yes my good Sir I flatter myself you will permit it, when I reflect on the many proofs of your good will towards me & persuaded that the effusions of a grateful remembrance can never want a welcome from the...
26To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas T. Davis, 23 February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I ask leave to lay before you the inclosed Letter from Tho. Green Senr. about ninety-one Years of age to M. Clay of Virga. It will shew to you the State of things in the Massissippi Territory, which is shortly to be under your care, other written evidences are here but the age & Respectability of the writer of this Letter entitles him to attention. Mr Claiboun of Tinnessee would be pleased...
27To Thomas Jefferson from John Moody, 23 February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
on Some Momentuos Occasions heretofore I have taken the liberty to Addres you I Must now Once more Transgress on your Patience to Congratulate your Election and particularly So after Such an Obstinate Party Resistance The Happines here among Republicans are Beyond Expresion and I Believe the Gloom is as much So with the Opposite & obstinate The Milder ones appear well Satisfyed. The Matter in...
28To Thomas Jefferson from Francis Say, 23 February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I have spoke to James according to your Desire he has made mention again as he did before that he was willing to serve you before any other man in the Union but sence he understands that he would have to be among strange servants he would be very much obliged to you if you would send him a few lines of engagement and on what conditions and what wages you would please to give him with your own...
29To Thomas Jefferson from James Bowdoin, 24 February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Although I am personally unknown to you, it is not with the less pleasure, that I congratulate you upon the events of the late election, which introduce you to the chair of the United States. The contest has been an arduous one, & the triumph, which has succeeded it, I trust, will prove not less beneficial to our common country, than honourable to you. Be assured Sir, that neither my wishes,...
30To Thomas Jefferson from Elbridge Gerry, 24 February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
At nine oClock last evening, Mr Lee, a [sincere?] friend of yours & mine, came up from Boston to inform me of your election. The precarious state, in which by the [wiles] of party, the federal executive was suspended, the irritation which would have resulted from your non-election, even if Mr Burr had obtained the vote, the great danger of a collision of parties, whose habits of animosity,...