79111Abigail Adams to John Adams, 16 January 1795 (Adams Papers)
I yesterday received yours of Jan ry 1 st 4 th and 5 th. I See by the papers the judicious Motion of Giles as it is an other Bone to pick; and brought forward with no other view or design, but to render himself popular with the Sans Culotts I cannot help despiseing and abhoring a Man, who is governd by Such base and Sordid motives. Giles’ face was allways my aversion and his Heart I detest,...
79112John Adams to Abigail Adams, 16 January 1795 (Adams Papers)
The Travelling I Suppose has retarded the Post of this Week, till to Day, when I received your two Letters of the 4 th. and 8 th. I am happy to Day in the Company of our Charles, who arrived at my Invitation from New York as fat as a Squab or Duck. M r Burr Says he is a Steady Man of Business. He is gone to the Drawing Room and Play. A Debate in Senate disappointed me of the female...
79113From John Adams to Jeremy Belknap, 16 January 1795 (Adams Papers)
your kind Letter of the 2 d , was brought to me from the Post office this morning, and I thank you for your Attention to the Reputation of our Country. I have Shewn your Letter to M r Henry M r Elsworth and other Members of Congress in 1779 and 1780 and to Several others , and there is not one who remembers any Thing like the Account which D r Kippis has given. I will however take other...
79114From John Adams to Jeremy Belknap, 16 January 1795 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for your Seperate and Secret Letter. As the farm is So near to me, it would well accommodate me, and I should like to purchase it, at a Price within my reach and not beyond its value.— But it is so much a matter of indifference to me, that I would not give more than its real Value according to my own Judgment. I have Land enough already to Spend all the Money I can command upon and...
79115From John Adams to Henry Marchant, 16 January 1795 (Adams Papers)
I received your kind Letter of the 19. Ult. with Pleasure, as I ever have and always shall receive all your Letters. our Acquaintance and I hope I may Say Friendship is almost forty years old, and I am more attached, than the Adage to old Friendships even than to old Wine. The Questions which now agitate, not only this Country but all Europe, especially France England Holland Switzerland...
79116From Alexander Hamilton to John Adams, 16 January 1795 (Adams Papers)
I beg leave through you to inform the Senate—that pursuant to the second Section of the Act establising the Treasury Department which expressly makes it the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury “to digest and prepare plans for the improvement and management of the Revenue and for the Support of public Credit ”—I have digested and prepared a plan, on the basis of the actual revenues , for the...
79117From Alexander Hamilton to John Adams, 16 January 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
I beg leave through you to inform the Senate that pursuant to the second Section of the Act establishing the Treasury Department which expressly makes it the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury “to digest and prepare plans for the improvement and management of the Revenue and for the Support of public Credit ” I have digested and prepared a plan, on the basis of the actual revenues , for the...
79118To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 16 January 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, Revenue Office, January 16, 1795. “I have this moment sent over to your office, a requisition of Col. Nevill for Three thousand dollars. As Mr McNair, for whom the money is wanted, leaves Philadelphia to day, it will be particularly desirable that a warrant for it may be got thro’ with expedition. It being the first money that Col. Nevill has received, there can be no...
79119From Alexander Hamilton to Frederick A. C. Muhlenberg, 16 January 1795 (Hamilton Papers)
Treasury Department, January 16, 1795. The letter which Hamilton wrote to John Adams on January 16, 1795 , was sent on the same date to Muhlenberg in his capacity as Speaker of the House of Representatives. LS , RG 233, Original Reports of the Secretary of the Treasury, 1795, National Archives; ADf , Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford. In Mitchell, Hamilton Broadus Mitchell, Alexander...
79120Report on a Plan for the Further Support of Public Credit, [16 January 1795] (Hamilton Papers)
[To the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President of the Senate] The Secretary of the Treasury respectfully makes the following report to the House of Representatives The President of the United States, with that provident concern for the public welfare which characterises all his conduct, was pleased in his speech to the two Houses of Congress, at the opening of the present...