The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 5 (of 9): Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private — John Shaqi
The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 5 (of 9): Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and PrivateJefferson, Thomas
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The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 5 (of 9): Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private
Jefferson, Thomas
United States -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783; United States -- Politics and government -- 1783-1865
Thomas Jefferson salutes Mr. Digges with friendship and respect, and sends
him the newspapers received last night. He is sorry that only the latter
part of the particular publication which Mr. Digges wished to see, is in
them. He will be happy to see Mr. Digges and his friends on the fourth
of July, and to join in congratulations on the return of the day which
divorced us from the follies and crimes of Europe, from a dollar in the
pound at least of six hundred millions sterling, and from all the ruin
of Mr. Pitt's administration. We, too, shall encounter follies; but if
great, they will be short, if long, they will be light; and the vigor
of our country will get the better of them. Mr. Pitt's follies have been
great, long, and inflicted on a body emaciated with age, and exhausted by
excesses beyond its power to bear.
TO MR. BIDWELL.
WASHINGTON, July 5, 1806.
SIR,--Your favor of June the 21st has been duly received. We have not
as yet heard from General Skinner on the subject of his office. Three
persons are proposed on the most respectable recommendations, and under
circumstances of such equality as renders it difficult to decide between
them. But it shall be done impartially. I sincerely congratulate you on
the triumph of republicanism in Massachusetts. The Hydra of federalism
has now lost all its heads but two. Connecticut I think will soon follow
Massachusetts. Delaware will probably remain what it ever has been, a mere
county of England, conquered indeed, and held under by force, but always
disposed to counter-revolution. I speak of its majority only.
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