“From Thomas Jefferson to William H. Cabell, 8 July 1807,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://teachingamericanhistory.org/tq3t. TO GOVERNOR WILLIAM H. CABELL. WASHINGTON, July 8, 1807.SIR,—You will have received from the Secretary at
“From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Priestley, 21 March 1801,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://teachingamericanhistory.org/le80. SOMETHING NEW UNDER THE SUN DEAR SIR,– I learnt some time ago that you were in Philadelphia,
Sir, I have been favoured with your letter of the 22ndult., and immediately communicated it to the committee of our society for promoting the liberation of slaves, and protecting such
To THE PUBLIC. An elegant writer, under the signature of “A LANDHOLDER,” having, in a series of publications, with a modesty and delicacy peculiar to himself, undertaken to instruct members
Mr. Russell. You are desired to inform the publick from good authority, That Mr. GERRY, by giving his dissent to the proposed constitution, could have no motive for preserving an
Copy of a Letter from the Author of the CENTINEL to his Friend in — County. Philadelphia, January 19, 1788. Dear Sir, I received your letter by Mr. —, and
You inquire why so young a man as Mr. Jefferson was placed at the head of the Committee for preparing a Declaration of Independence, I answer; It was the Frankfort
I take this oppo. to acknowledge the receipt of A Benezets Book against the Slave Trade. I thank you for it. It is not a little surprising that Christianity, whose
Mr. GODDARD, SIR, In consequence of the justice I did Mr. Gerry, on a former occasion, I find myself complimented with an Address in your last Paper.-Whether the Landholder of
Yesterday, agreeably to Proclamation, the Hon. General Court of this Common-wealth, convened at the State-House, in this town–and a quorum of both Branches being assembled, a joint Committee was appointed
