15661From John Adams to Wilson Miles Cary, 28 June 1798 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for this Address, presented to me by Your Representative in Congress Mr Evans. With you I believe the Prosperity of America to be consistent with the Good of all. But there are some, who will have Us as Tributaries and Dependents or Ennemies. They have it in their Power to make Us Ennemies. But they cannot make Us dependent. I thank you for your Applause to my Predecessor and to...
15662From John Adams to John Bayard, 28 June 1798 (Adams Papers)
This respect full Address Subscribed with Names of various Classes of Citizens So respectable, which has been presented to me by your Senator in Congress Mr Stockton, does me great honour. It is impossible to contemplate the Aggressions, Injuries and Insults committed by the French Republic against the Government and People of the United States without Indignation. The temperate Policy of...
15663From John Adams to United States Senate, 28 June 1798 (Adams Papers)
I nominate George Latimer Esq of Pennsylvania to be Collector of the District of Pennsylvania in the place of Sharp Dulany Esqr who has resigned. DNA : RG 46—Records of the U.S. Senate.
15664To John Adams from John Bayard, 28 June 1798 (Adams Papers)
We the judges of the court of common pleas, justices of the court of general quarter sessions of the peace, grand-jurors and bar of the county of Somerset and state of New-Jersey, attending the said court feel it our duty to address you at the present interesting crisis of our national affairs. The wanton and continued aggressions, injuries, and insults committed by the French republic against...
15665From John Adams to New Hampshire Legislature, 29 June 1798 (Adams Papers)
My most respectful and affectionate Thanks are due to your two Honorable Houses, for an Address, transmitted by your excellent Governor, and presented to me by your Representatives in Congress. The American Nation appears to me, as it does to you, on the point of being drawn into the Vortex of European War— Your entire satisfaction, in the administration of the federal Government, and in the...
15666From John Adams to Theodore Armistead, 29 June 1798 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for this Address in which the Modesty of Youth is united with the Fortitude of Manhood, and the Decency of Expression enhances the Value of the generous and Patriotic sentiments. Virginia is of so high Importance in the Union, and in my so respectable in my Esteem, that Assurances of Attachment to the Government from any Portion of the People of that state whatever may be their...
15667From John Adams to David Perry, 29 June 1798 (Adams Papers)
I have been not less surprised than delighted with an Address from one hundred and thirty Students of Williams Colledge, presented to be my the President Pro Tempore of the Senate Mr Sedgwick. So large a Number in so recent an Institution as it shews the flourishing Circumstances of our Country at present, affords a most pleasing Prospect of young Citizens in a course of Education for the...
15668To John Adams from William Henry Harrison, 29 June 1798 (Adams Papers)
That those, to whom the management of public affairs is confided, should be called from their deliberation, to listen to the opinions of popular meetings, will seldom, we think, be found warranted by discretion or compatible with the good order of society—But at a period like this, when our enemies boast of finding among ourselves the support of their purposes, we presume, that sincere...
15669To John Adams from Jared S. Russell, 30 June 1798 (Adams Papers)
At this alarming crisis, when our social and political compacts are threatened with dissolution, while surrounded by men inimical to our government, who are striving to blast even the buds of patriotism, permit a part of the young men of New-ark to express their confidence and firm reliance in the wisdom, virtue, and patriotism of our chief magistrate, which is daily enhanced by the...
15670From John Adams to Benjamin Lurvey, 30 June 1798 (Adams Papers)
I am very glad to find by your Address directed at your Town Meeting on the Eleventh of June that you are Sensible a hauty Nation has been intriguing and plotting to divide you, and prevent your Uniting to oppose their unreasonable Projects. Your firm and unshaken attachment to the Laws and Constitution of your Country cannot be doubted. Your entire approbation of the Measures of the Executive...
15671From John Adams to Jared S. Russell, 30 June 1798 (Adams Papers)
Our social and political compacts are indeed threatened with dissolution and with them all the moral, religious scientific and literary principles and institutions which have converted the wilderness into a fruitful field— If it is only a part it is a Very respectable part of the young Men of New-Ark who are sensible of the danger of their Country, they will long rejoice in the virtuous and...
15672From John Adams to Edward Hand, 30 June 1798 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for this Address presented to me by your Representative in Congress Mr Kittera. It is indeed too plainly apparent that We must resort either submit to be dictated to by a foreign Power, or resort to Arms for the defence of all that can be held dear to Freemen. The Happiness you acknowledge under the Influence of a Government of your own Choice mild and equal in its operations, is...
15673From John Adams to United States Senate, 30 June 1798 (Adams Papers)
I nominate Thomas Martin of New Hampshire to be Collector for the District of Portsmouth in New Hampshire in the Place of Joseph Whipple Samuel Adams to be Surveyor and Inspector of the Revenue for the Port of Portsmouth in the place of Thomas Martin nominated to be Collector John Pierce to be Commissioner of Loans for the State of New Hampshire in the place of William Gardner. Thomas Perkins...
15674From John Adams to United States Senate, 30 June 1798 (Adams Papers)
I nominate William Vincent Hutchins to be a Lieutenant in the Navy John Strout to be a Lieutenant of the Navy Lakin Thorndike to be a Surgeon in the Navy These officers John are intended for the sloop of War The Herald at Boston, The Rank may be settled hereafter. DNA : RG 46—Records of the U.S. Senate.
15675From John Adams to United States Senate, 30 June 1798 (Adams Papers)
I nominate J. Phillips of Maryland to be a Captain in the Navy— Josias M: Speake of Maryland to be Lieutenant in the Navy— John West of Virginia to be a Lieutenant in the Navy These Gentlemen are intended for officers on board The Baltimore, a twenty gun Ship, fitting out at the City of that Name—It is hoped the Senate will consent, that the rank of these officers shall be settled hereafter,...
15676To John Adams from Tristram Dalton, 30 June 1798 (Adams Papers)
I have really occasion to make an Apology for troubling you so often with my personal concerns—perhaps I presume too much on the Score of private Friendship—That, and Your Candor, I will hope, may plead my excuse— On the 21st of the last month I did myself the Honor of writing to You–when I took the liberty to mention the probability of a dissolution of my Copartnership with Mr Lear— It is...
15677To John Adams from Phillips Payson, 30 June 1798 (Adams Papers)
I sincerely beg your Excellency’s condesention, to a humble request for a favor, which I am, sure no man in this World can be more thankful for than your devoted applicant— The death of Nathaniel Appleton Esquire of Boston, has opened the way for an appointment, I take the liberty to ask for my oldest son Phillips Payson Esqr. of Charlestown. For his personal qualifications and character beg...
15678To John Adams from William Augustine Washington, 30 June 1798 (Adams Papers)
Your fellow Citizens of the County of Westmoreland cannot at this portentous Crisis withhold their Offering of Gratitude and Respect to their Chief Magistrate, as well to assure him of their unshaken Decision at all Times and on all Occasions to maintain inviolate the Independence of their Country, as to relieve the Reputation of the American Nation from the unfounded Aspersions, Which the...
15679To John Adams from Joseph Chaplain, June 1798 (Adams Papers)
We feel happy in congratulating our fellow citizens of the United States, upon the unanimity of Spirit, which, in Such firm Language, & on so trying an Occasion, bespeaks their resolution to preserve inviolate, that independence, which they have so bravely fought for, and So gloriously obtained— We desire to offer to you, our unbounded applause, for the Wisdom and Spirited decision, which,...
15680To John Adams from William Vans Murray, 1 July 1798 (Adams Papers)
The papers, some of which I have received as late as 8. May & one of 26. May, have after so long a pause of uncertainty thrown me into a tumult of feelings almost to tears. I see with a pride sustained by active domestic sources of greatness, the rising energies of America spreading over that surface of the public mind which reflection had matured into a mass of stability, fit to support all...
15681From John Adams to United States Senate, 2 July 1798 (Adams Papers)
I nominate George Washington of Mount Vernon to be Lieutenant General and Commander in Chief of all the Armies raised or to be raised in the United States. DNA : RG 46—Records of the U.S. Senate.
15682From John Adams to United States Senate, 2 July 1798 (Adams Papers)
I nominate Thomas Ross of Pennsylvania to be Inspector of the Revenue for the first survey of Pennsylvania— DNA : RG 46—Records of the U.S. Senate.
15683To John Adams from Thomas Tillinghast, 3 July 1798 (Adams Papers)
Permit me to Recommend to your Consideration George Thomas Esquire as a Candidate Sutable to be appointed Commissioner for the District of Washington & Kent in Rhode Island his Situation as being Central in the District and very much so as Respects the State added to knowledge obtained of the Value of Property in different parts of the State from his having frequently traversed it on Publick...
15684To John Adams from Jonathan Dayton, 4 July 1798 (Adams Papers)
The Members of the society of Cincinnati of New Jersey this day convened at their annual meeting for the purposes of perpetuating their friendships, a& of commemorating together, the great events which gave Independence to the United States, do now beg leave, in common with our fellow citizens to address our Chief Magistrate for the purpose of expressing our entire satisfaction with his...
15685To John Adams from Oliver Spencer, 4 July 1798 (Adams Papers)
A number of the inhabitants of Hamilton county in the Territory Northwest of the Ohio river, haveing assembled at Columbia for the purpose of celebrateing the auspicious day on which the United States took rank among the nations, and takeing into view the horrid depredations committed on the property of the citizens of the Union, By the cruisers of the French republic, and the neglect of the...
15686To John Adams from Elias Dayton, 4 July 1798 (Adams Papers)
The members of the society of the Cincinnati in the state of New Jersey, this day convened at their annual meeting, for the purposes of perpetuating their friendships, and of commemorating together the great events which gave Independence to these United States (in all that purity of intention which we trust has ever been manifested by our Society, and for the truth of which we have appealed...
15687To John Adams from Thomas Mifflin, 4 July 1798 (Adams Papers)
On the birth-day of the United States, and at an æra the most interesting that has occured since their existence as a Nation, the Pennsylvania State Society of the Cincinnati desire most respectfully to congratulate and address you. As a portion of that Band, whose best efforts were employed to establish the sovereignty and independence of our Country, we come, in the moment of impending...
15688To John Adams from George Washington, 4 July 1798 (Adams Papers)
Not being in the habit since my return to private life, of sending regularly to the Post Office (nine miles from hence) every Post-day, it often happens that letters addressed to me lye longer there, on that account, than they otherwise would do. I have delayed no time, unnecessarily, since I had the honor of receiving your very obliging favour of the 22d. Ulto. to thank you for the polite and...
15689To John Adams from Craig Ritchie, 5 July 1798 (Adams Papers)
For the President, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the United States of America. The Address and Memorial of Sundry Inhabitants of the Town of Canonsburgh and its vicinity in the county of Washington County in the State of Pennsylvania, Respectfully Sheweth That we Sincerely regret that any circumstances should have given any Foreign Government ground to belive; that, when the...
15690From John Adams to North Carolina Militia, 5 July 1798 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for this address. Our Commerce is plundered, our Citizens treated with the Vilest indignities, our Nation itself is insulted in the persons of its ambassadors and supreme Magistrates, and all this because we are beleived to be a divided people—how is it possible in such circumstances for Metaphisicians to Chicane or Mathematicians to Calculate, it is to me as to you,...