15381To John Adams from Elbridge Gerry, 24 March 1798 (Adams Papers)
I had the honor of addressing you on the 17th by Mr Hopkins; & being informed by Mr. Putnam of Boston, that Mr. Morgue, who has long resided with him, & has his confidence will depart in a day or two for Philadelphia, I embrace this opportunity of informing you that our affairs will be brot to a crisis in a day or two, & that we shall all leave France immediately, unless I should be obliged to...
15382To John Adams from Sebastián Francisco de Miranda, 24 March 1798 (Adams Papers)
C’est au-nom des Colonies Hispano-Americaines, que J’ai l’honneur d’envoyer à Votre Excellence les Propositions ci-jointes.—Elles ont êtè presentèes egalement aux ministres de Sa Majestè Britannique, qui les ont reçü tres favorablement: en temoignant beaucoup de satisfaction d’avoir à agir dans un cas pareil avec les Etats-Unis de l’Amerique.—Et il me semble que le delai que J’eprouve...
15383To John Adams from Tristram Dalton, 26 March 1798 (Adams Papers)
I would not have so soon again trespassed upon Your important Moments, did not the publick coincide with my private interest, on the present occasion. Both of them connected I hope will plead my Excuse. In your serious Message to Congress of the 19th Instant, I observe that, among other measures to prepare for the Worst, You have recommended “replenishing our Arsenals, establishing Founderies,...
15384To John Adams from Noah Webster, 26 March 1798 (Adams Papers)
I had the honor of your letter of a late date covering one from Dr Tufts, which has furnished me with some very useful facts; & for which I must beg leave to communicate to you & to him my most respectful Acknowlegements— If I could obtain similar facts from the year 1700, I should be well fortified with American proof of the general principles that govern Epidemics; as it is, I have proof...
15385From John Adams to United States Senate, 27 March 1798 (Adams Papers)
I nominate Griffith John McRee Esqr. of North Carolina to be Collector for the District of Wilmington in that State, in the Place of James Read Esqr DNA : RG 46—Records of the U.S. Senate.
15386To John Adams from Judith Sargent Stevens Murray, 29 March 1798 (Adams Papers)
Your attachment to your Country is not, in the calculations of reason, considered as problematical; and this attachment, giving you a paternal interest in all those individuals that constitute the Community; may possibly , induce you in some moment of leisure to take a cursory view of the pages of the Gleaner. In this hope they are now presented, and while I have need of the shield of...
15387From John Adams to Tristram Dalton, 30 March 1798 (Adams Papers)
I am as much in debt in the Litterary and Epistolary way, as our princes of modern speculation are in their pursuits; and I suppose for similar reasons, vz: want a Method in accuracy of account, no œconomy, and undertaking more than I am able of managing; to you I am indebted for three late Letters at least— The character drawn in the first and alluded to in the second, has always been civil...
15388From John Adams to United States Congress, 3 April 1798 (Adams Papers)
In compliance with the request of the House of Representatives, expressed in their resolution of the second of this Month, I transmit to both Houses, those instructions to and dispatches from, the Envoys Extraordinary of the United States to the French Republic which were mentioned in my message of the nineteenth of March last, omitting only some names, and a few expressions descriptive of the...
15389From John Adams to United States Senate, 5 April 1798 (Adams Papers)
I nominate Edward Prebble of Massachusetts to be first Lieutenant of the Frigate The Constitution in the Place of Benjamin Lee who has declined his appointment and John B. Cordis of Massachusetts to be second Lieutenant of the same Frigate in the Place of William H Wattles, who is Said to be deceased. DNA : RG 46—Records of the U.S. Senate.
15390To John Adams from Paul Ferdinand Fevot, 5 April 1798 (Adams Papers)
Your Excellency will be surprised to receive a letter from a Stranger unknown to You; But Your high public character makes me hope to be taken some notice of by Your Excellency if Your leasure permits you to peruse my letter. I am a native of Lausanne in Switzerland where I followed the Law 10 years; I had a comfortable situation when the French Revolution broke out; great number of my...