22011To James Madison from James Houstoun, 14 December 1813 (Madison Papers)
I have taken the liberty of addressing few lines to the president of the U.S. to lay before him the situation of my Brother Mossman Houstoun late Lt. Col. of the 8th Regt. of U.S. Infantry. whose unfortunate situation is one calculated to excite the simpathy of every humane man, and who has been dismissed the Service by the War department in a manner so abrupt & unceremonious as to cause the...
22012To James Madison from Robert B. Semple and Others, 14 December 1813 (Madison Papers)
Pursuant to an appointment of the Dover Baptist Association, permit us to express our great satisfaction in you, as the Chief Magistrate of our Country; to congratulate you on the prosperity of your administration of our national concerns, in so perilous a time; and to lay before you the resolve of our Association, with regard to what we believe our duty to God, in a season so critical and...
22013Thomas Jefferson to Isaac Cox Barnet, 14 December 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
My interior situation among the mountains and very far from any seaport, renders it extremely difficult for me to learn when vessels are going from any port of the United States to France , which might offer a tolerably safe conveyance for letters. this makes me a very tardy correspondent with that side of the water, and must be my apology for having so long delayed acknoleging the reciept of...
22014Thomas Jefferson to Valentín de Foronda, 14 December 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I have had the pleasure of recieving several letters from you, covering printed propositions and pamphlets on the state of your affairs, and all breathing the genuine sentiments of order, liberty & philanthropy with which I know you to be sincerely inspired. we learn little to be depended on here as to your civil proceedings, or of the division of sentiments among you: but in this absence of...
22015Thomas Jefferson to François André Michaux, 14 December 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
My interior situation among the mountains, and great distance from any seaport town, is extremely unfriendly to punctual correspondence with the other side of the Atlantic . vessels bound to that quarter are generally gone before I learn their destination by the public papers. I have recieved from you, at different times, three several livraisons of your excellent work on the forest trees of...
22016Thomas Jefferson to Alexis Marie Rochon, 14 December 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I have had the pleasure, my dear Sir, of recieving your letter of Aug. 7. 1812. and with it a copy of your voyages for the observations of the longitudes at sea, which I have read with great satisfaction, and pray you to accept my thanks for them. I recieved at the same time your pamphlet on the Micrometer of rock-chrystal, the advantages of which you had shewn to me in 1785 at D r Franklin ’s...
22017Thomas Jefferson to André Thoüin, 14 December 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
The perils of the ocean, my good and antient friend, are such that I almost despair of getting a letter to you. yet I cannot permit myself longer to withold the acknolegement of the reciept of your letters of Mar. 2. and Dec. 7. 11. and Mar. 15. 13. the boxes of seeds which you were so kind as to forward to me in 1810. 1811. came safely to hand, and were committed to our best seedsmen, in...
22018From John Adams to John Adams Smith, 13 December 1813 (Adams Papers)
You grieve me when you tell me that “your city is thronged with officers of the army.” Infandum, renovare jubes, dolorem. In the most critical moments of our affairs in 1776, I twice travelled through New Jersey; and with indignation and contempt which I feel still to my fingers ends, saw the taverns crowded with officers, who ought to have been in face of the enemy in New York, and at frogs...
22019Samuel M. Burnside to Thomas Jefferson, 13 December 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
On the 24th of October 1812, the Legislature of Massachusetts formed a number of Gentleman Gentlemen into a body Corporate and Politic, by the name of “ The American Antiquarian Society .”— The nature, views and objects of this Institution are stated and explained in a pamphlet, recently published by their order, a copy of which is transmitted to You, and will accompany this letter.—The...
22020Bela Fosgate to Thomas Jefferson, 13 December 1813, with Note from David Holt to Thomas Jefferson, [ca. 13 December … (Jefferson Papers)
Altho I am an enemy to those wars which destroy the human race and desolate the earth yet I am friendly to the principle implanted with in us of self-preservation from which arises that of self defence. I am a f r iend to Civil liberty and have long been pained in witnessing the violations of the rights and liberties of my fellow citizens. The estimation in which I hold thy charactir yeields...