“The anxieties you express to administer to my happiness do of themselves confer that happiness; and the measure will be complete if my endeavors to fulfil my duties in the several public stations to which I have been called have obtained for me the approbation of my country. The part which I have acted on the theatre of public life has been before them, and to their sentence I submit it; but the testimony of my native county, of the individuals who have known me in private life, to my conduct in its various duties and relations is the more grateful as proceeding from eye-witnesses and observers, from triers of the vicinage. Of you, then, my neighbors, I may ask in the face of the world, ‘Whose ox have I taken, or whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed, or of whose hand have I received a bribe to blind mine eyes therewith?’ On your verdict I rest with conscious security.” FOOTNOTES: [381] Dallas to Gallatin, July 30, 1808; Adams’s Gallatin, p. 372. [382] Report and Resolutions, National Intelligencer, March 10, 1809. [383] King to Pickering, Jan. 31, 1809; Pickering MSS. [384] Ryland to John Henry, Jan. 26, 1809; State Papers, iii. 546. [385] Sir James Craig to John Henry, Feb. 6, 1809; State Papers, iii. 546. [386] Quincy’s Life of Quincy, p. 250. [387] Henry to Sir J. Craig, March 7, 1809; State Papers, iii. 549. [388] Jefferson to Armstrong, March 5, 1809; Works, v. 433. [389] Jefferson to Dupont de Nemours, March 2, 1809; Works, v. 432. [390] Jefferson to Dearborn, July 15, 1810; Works, v. 529. [391] Jefferson to W. B. Giles, Dec. 25, 1825; Works, vii. 424. [392] Jefferson to W. Short, March 8, 1809; Works, v. 435. [393] Jefferson’s Financial Diary. Harper’s Magazine, March, 1885, pp. 534-542. [394] Domestic Life of Thomas Jefferson, p. 400. [395] Randall’s Jefferson, iii. 326. [396] Jefferson to Warden, Feb. 25, 1809; Jefferson MSS. [397] Jefferson to Dupont de Nemours, March 2, 1809; Works, v. 432. [398] Jefferson to Armstrong, March 5, 1809; Works, v. 434. INDEX TO VOLS. I. AND II. Abbot, Charles, ii. 97.