15471To John Adams from Rev. William Walter, 6 November 1797 (Adams Papers)
Your Excellency’s obliging Observations upon your own Letters in defence of the American Constitutions have added to my former satisfactions. If your Defence has not been so extensively read as it ought nor produced those happy Effects which were intended it is not because the work had not an intrinsic Value, but because the Great Events which Time has been unfolding have thrown the Minds of...
15472From John Adams to Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 7 November 1797 (Adams Papers)
I have just now recd your favour of Yesterday I shall be obliged to you if you will inform General McPherson that I am very Sensible of the honour intended me by the Troops of the City and Vicinity. I shall dine at New Bruswick tomorrow and on Thursday get as far as Trenton or perhaps two Miles beyond the Delaware. On Fryday I intend to reach Philadelphia and that before night. I pray the...
15473From John Adams to American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 8 November 1797 (Adams Papers)
Meeting with you at a regular Period established by Law, I expected nothing more, than those habitual Expressions of your friendship, which I have, constantly received, as one of your Associates, upon all Such occasions. This elegant Address, therefore, as it was not foreseen, is the more acceptable Coming from Gentlemen whose fame for Science and Literature as well as for every civil and...
15474From John Adams to John Neilson, 8 November 1797 (Adams Papers)
As The Esteem and Affection of the Inhabitants of the City of New Brunswick, expressed in this Address, are very agreable to me and deserve and they cannot but receive on my Part as they deserve on my part a cordial return of Affection and Esteem Your happiness in a Government of Laws, and the Administration of it under the great and good Washington, was common to you and all virtuous Men....
15475From John Adams to New Jersey Legislature, 8 November 1797 (Adams Papers)
I receive this Address from the Legislative Council and General Assembly of New Jersey with a just grateful Sense of the high honour it does me confers upon me As there is no People whose Attachment to the Principles of a free Representative Government has been more constant and consistent, than that of the Citizens of New Jersey, there is none with whom I could more heartily rejoice, that...
15476To John Adams from John Neilson, 8 November 1797 (Adams Papers)
The Inhabitants of the City of New Brunswick and its vicinity, are highly gratified with this opportunity of expressing to you their Affectionate Esteem.— Happy in a Government of Laws, and happy in the Administration of it under the great & good Washington, we could not but sincerely rejoice, when the voice of our Country, upon his retirement, gave us, for a Chief Majestrate, a person whose...
15477To John Adams from Maskell Ewing, 8 November 1797 (Adams Papers)
Inclosed I transmit you a copy of an Address, which has been ordered by the Legislative Council and General Assembly of New–Jersey, to be presented to you on your Arrival at Trenton, by the President of Council and Speaker of the House of Assembly. I have the honor to be / Sir / your most Humble servant The Legislative Council and General Assembly of the State of New-Jersey, with much...
15478To John Adams from Thomas Mifflin, 9 November 1797 (Adams Papers)
I have the honor to inform your Excellency, that I have concluded a contract with Messrs. Thomas and John Ketland, for supplying the State of Pennsylvania with ten thousand stands of arms; and to request that you will favor me with a letter to the American Minister at the Court of London, for the purpose of engaging his influence to obtain the necessary permit for exporting the arms from Great...
15479To John Adams from George Mathews, 10 November 1797 (Adams Papers)
After I Left Philada. I posued my Jurney, through the wilderens to the Fawles of Ohio in Kintuck my Stay in that countary was but a Short time So that I cannot say mutch on the poleticks of that country but observed its will Stored with Democrats how Loose no opportunity to cavel at Govarment. I Left that plase on the 29th of August—and after a pashage of forty five days arived hear on the...
15480To John Adams from William Vans Murray, 14 November 1797 (Adams Papers)
Mr. Adams left Hamburgh, for Berlin, on the 31. Oct. & is I hope safely arrived there—I have not heard from him since the 26th Oct., when he had just landed at Hamburgh—as I had the honour of informing you Sir. Lepeaux, of whom no body heard before he got into a palace & his cap & feathers, says, America, Government and all, are Venal, & bought by Pitt!—This he announced in the midst of his...