45921To Thomas Jefferson from Elisha Avery, 11 February 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
With any other than yourself, elevated to the rank in which you are placed, I should have been awed by a sense of my presumption, & probably detered from excercising the liberty to which I am now emboldend: and it is alone Sir, On those liberal & virtuous Qualities, which so emminently distinguish your character, that I rely for pardon of the freedom I allow myself. Too generally does it...
45922To Thomas Jefferson from Justus Erich Bollmann, 11 February 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I am apprehensive I have been guilty of an Incorrectness in not acknowledging before the Receipt of Your Excellency’s Remittance for $546. 43/100 in full for the Hungary-Wines. It was occasioned by the Expectation I entertained of paying personally my Respects to you at Washington, but which I have not yet been able to realise. It is very satisfactory to me that the Wines in the whole have...
45923From Thomas Jefferson to George Jefferson, 11 February 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
According to my letter of yesterday I now inclose you the treasurer’s order on mr Gibbons for 600. D. which I hope will get to hand in time to prevent disappointment. will you be so good as to send to Monticello a hogshead of best molasses, but in a double case in sound & good condition or it will be no better than a hogshead of water when it arrives there. if there is any syrop of punch to be...
45924To Thomas Jefferson from George Read, Jr., 11 February 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
G. Read presents his most respectful compliments to the President of the United States, and has been honoured with his Note of yesterday, on the subject of the power of the Courts of the United States, to restrain the State Courts within their limits by a prohibition:—G. Read laments that there is no law-library in Washington to which he could have recourse for the purpose of investigating the...
45925To Thomas Jefferson from Henry Warren, 11 February 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Through the medium of Judge Cushing’s family I have learnt that Cod’s tongues & sounds are a dish of which you are peculiarly fond. I embrace the opportunity which this hint affords me to transmit a half barrel, which I believe are excellent, & have sent them by the Schooner Nightingale, Capt. Paine, bound up the Potomack, who has promised me to forward them safely. I pray you, Sir, to accept...
45926To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Willcox, 11 February 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Permit me to observe that Noah Lester Esqr. Councelor at Law, offers himself as a candidate for some imployment under the general government, he wishes to be placed in some of the Territorial Governments as a Judge or District Attorney, ether of which I belive he wold fill with propriety—He is a gentleman of Abilities, Respected in his profession, & has been a uniform & regular suporter of...
45927To James Madison from William C. C. Claiborne (Abstract), 10 February 1805 (Madison Papers)
10 February 1805, New Orleans . “Colonel De Lassus formerly Lieutenant Governor of Upper Louisiana (with thirty Spanish Soldiers) is now in this City on his way to Pensacola; his Arrival was Announced to me by a Letter from the Marquis of Casa Calvo, of which the enclosure No 1 is a translation, and to which I returned the Answer No 2. The delay attending the evacuation of the Ceded Territory...
45928From Thomas Jefferson to George Jefferson, 10 February 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I intended by yesterday evening’s post to have sent you the treasurer’s draught on mr Gibbons for 600. D. but unfortunately on calling at mr Gallatin’s office, he had left it. I called on him to-day, but it being Sunday, the draught cannot be procured till tomorrow. it shall certainly go by the post which leaves this tomorrow evening & consequently will get to hand 24. hours after this is...
45929From Thomas Jefferson to George Read, Jr., 10 February 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Reid, and his apologies after 30. years abstraction from law questions, for intruding into them with mr Reid who is in daily familiarity with them. but he means only to make such suggestions as may draw mr Reid’s own attention to the subject of their yesterday’s conversation . he has no law books here but the Abridgments. by turning to Comyns’...
45930To James Madison from William Jarvis, 9 February 1805 (Madison Papers)
It is with pain that I feel myself obliged to lay before Government a Correspondence of such an unpleasant nature as the inclosed between Captain Rodgers & myself, but when my reputation has been attacked & an attempt has been made to lessen my influence as a man & my consequence as an officer justice to my character oblidges me to lay a fair statement of the transaction before Government to...
45931To Thomas Jefferson from Isaac Briggs, 9 February 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
My last letter to thee was dated at this place, 29th. of the month just past, a few days after my arrival here from New-Orleans. In that letter I ventured some hints on the political situation of this Territory. Having since acquired more certain knowledge of the subject, and more in detail, I think it my duty to communicate it to the President with that candor and simple truth which I have...
45932To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Patton, 9 February 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I have recieved your polite note of the 6th inst. and in compliance with your request, I have this day forwarded, the letter you entrusted to my care, for Thomas Paine, under cover to the Post Master at New York. I am Sir, With the greatest respect Your obedient Servt. RC ( DLC ); at head of text: “The President United States”; endorsed by TJ as received 11 Feb. and so recorded in SJL . your...
45933From Thomas Jefferson to Philippe Reibelt, 9 February 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
From the two last boxes sent here I have selected the following Desodoart Revoln de France 2. 40 Bibliotheque geographique &c Campe. 20. v. 10. Elemens de Zoographie 1. Elemens physiques de la jeunesse . 40 histoire de Mathematiques Bossut 4. Lettres sur la botanique 2. 80
45934To Thomas Jefferson from Abner Ritchie, 9 February 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
There was granted unto Colo Charles Beatty lately deceasd 81. Acres of land under two special warrants of resy. from the Land office of Maryland, one bearing date 22 Ap. 1791. the other 22d Mar. 1792 patent dated 23d May 1801. Land named Burns Neglect— It has been stated to me that this Land was long known to have been vacant, but that David Burns decd. (tho Father in law of Maj. now Colo. Vn....
45935From John Quincy Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 8 February 1805 (Adams Papers)
I have two or three letters from you which I am afraid will never be answered in the manner all your letters deserve to be answered; but I know you will make all the proper allowances for my situation, and the shortness of my Time.—There is however a question or two which I can no longer delay to answer.—And first; respecting the enlargement of the Meeting-House, I have to say that I cannot...
45936From James Madison to David Gelston, 8 February 1805 (Madison Papers)
The impressment of the four seamen from on board the Brig Betsey, Henry White master, as stated in his protest just received from you, has from its manner attracted particular notice: I will therefore thank you to cause a supplemen[t]al deposition to be taken, explanatory of the following particulars, viz. was the name of the frigate making the impressment desig[n]edly concealed—what reasons...
45937Memorandum to Thomas Jefferson, [ca. 8 February 1805] (Madison Papers)
+ insert “thro’ the transactions of a portion of our Citizens whose intelligence & arrangements best shi[e]ld them agst the abuses, as well as inconveniences incident to the collection” Religion—substitute “as religious exercises, could therefore be neither controuled nor prescribed by us. They have accordingly been left as the Constitution found them, under the direction & discipline...
45938To James Madison from George W. Erving (Abstract), 8 February 1805 (Madison Papers)
8 February 1805, London . No. 49. “I had the honor to receive in due course your letter of Novr. 24th. 1804 directing me to make application to the British Admiralty for the discharge of Joseph Trowbridge and inclosing regularly authenticated Documents to prove his Citizenship. “I am sorry to inform you that the ship on board of which he is detained having sailed on a foreign station, their...
45939To James Madison from Anthony Merry (Abstract), 8 February 1805 (Madison Papers)
8 February 1805, Washington . “Lord Harrowby, His Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, having signified to me that the King has been pleased to appoint James Wallace Esqr. to be His Majesty’s Vice-Consul at Savannah in the State of Georgia, and having instructed me to communicate Mr. Wallace’s Appointment to the Government of the United States, and to procure for him the...
45940To James Madison from Jacob Ridgway (Abstract), 8 February 1805 (Madison Papers)
8 February 1805, Antwerp . “I have the honor to give you the information I have just received through an indirect channel of two Prussian Vessels—Viz the Navigation, Captain J Vandernvort & the Speculation, Captain Dederick bound from Amsterdam to Baltimore with Passengers Said to be mostly composed of all the Vagabonds, Convicts and the Outcast of that City for a premium of fifty Guilders...
45941From Thomas Jefferson to David Gelston, 8 February 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favors of Jan. 24. & Feb. 5. have both been recieved. I took no step on the subject of the wine from mr Lee, put into Newport, because the advance of the season seemed to ensure it would change it’s position before any orders from hence could get into effect. should it come to N. York I must pray you to have it forwarded to this place. that which comes from mr Jarvis of Lisbon is...
45942From Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 8 February 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I am now able to resume my paiments , which have been interrupted by the great expences of the season: and which indeed experience has proved to be unavoidable at times, by an accumulation of calls beyond ordinary expectation. I inclose you a draught of the bk US. here on that at Philadelphia for 500. D. we had been in hopes that the ceremony of the impeachment now going on at this place would...
45943To Thomas Jefferson from Isaac Story, 8 February 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Permit me to inclose the Centinel of Wednesday last, that you may take suitable measures for bringing Mr. Hulbert of Sheffield to condign punishment. I ever considered it as a branch of wisdom in you to pretermit common Newspapers squibs. But when a man brings forward in the house of Representatives a set of the most flagitious charges, should he not be called to a solemn account, and made to...
45944From Thomas Jefferson to Volney, 8 February 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Nov. 26. came to hand May 14. the books some time after; which were all distributed according to direction. the copy for the E. Indies went immediately by a safe conveyance. the letter of Apr. 28. & the copy of your work accompanying that did not come to hand till August. that copy was deposited in the Congressional library. it was not till my return here from my autumnal visit...
45945From Thomas Jefferson to Mercy Otis Warren, 8 February 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mrs Warren & returns her the paper she had been pleased to inclose to him with his own subscription & that of the heads of departments except General Dearborne who had signed another paper. he learns with great satisfaction that mrs Warren’s attention has been so long turned to the events which have been passing. the last thirty years will furnish a...
45946To Thomas Jefferson from Noah Lester, 8 February 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Being by profession a lawyer I have diligently but unsuccessfully sought to advance myselfe in this State Where republicanism is treated as a Crime deserving every kind of punishment which the inginuity of its enemies can invent Attachment to the principals which distinguish your administration has renderd. it necessary for me to seeke some employ under the General Goverment If any office in...
45947I. Topics for Inaugural Address, 8 February 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Genl. topics the advantages of a peaceful system. that if once our debt is paid & taxes liberated, the surplus (after supportg. govmt) will supply annual exp. of war so that no other tax need ever be laid. removals from office. Philosophy licentiousness of press. MS ( DLC : TJ Papers, 234:41878); in TJ’s hand; undated; Documents III and V are on reverse side of same sheet.
45948II. Partial Draft, 8 February 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
h. 11. I am happy in observing the union of sentiment which has taken place in the great mass of our country, with some local exceptions only. the union of sentiment is now as general as can be expected among a people having the right to think speak & write with freedom: & perhaps as is desirable, some difference of opinion being useful as it assumes the office of Censor on the public...
45949III. Partial Draft, 8 February 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
4. e. The free exercise of religion being placed by the constitution independant of the powers of the Genl. govmt, the acts of fasting praying, thanksgiving, and the times, manner, and matter thereof, are religious exercises, which if free from us must neither be prescribed nor controuled by us: I have left them therefore as the constn found them, under the direction of the state or church...
45950IV. Partial Draft, 8 February 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
b. In the transaction of your forn. affairs we have endeavd to cultivate the frdshp of all nations & especially of those with whom we have the most importt. relations: we have endeavored to evince by our conduct that we do justice on all occasions, and frdly offices where our duty to others will permit that peace and happiness are our first objects, and mutual exchanges of superfluities as a...