Springfield, Ills., April 6, 1859 Messrs. Henry L. Pierce, & others. Gentlemen Your kind note inviting me to attend a Festival in Boston, on the 13th. Inst. in honor of
Source: George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, July 6, 1796, George Washington Papers, Series 2, Letterbooks 1754–1799, Library of Congress. http://cdn.loc.gov/service/mss/mgw/mgw2/019/019.pdf Dear Sir, When I inform you that your letter of
Source: “I. Thomas Jefferson to Philip Mazzei, 24 April 1796,” Founders Online, National Archives, accessed April 11, 2019, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-29-02-0054-0002. My dear friend, Monticello Apr. 24. 1796. . .
Dear Sir, You will have observed an article in the Argus upon the subject of a national convention. That matter will soon be brought under discussion here and I
Gouverneur Morris warns that New York’s resistance to the Coercive Acts risks mob rule, exposing class tensions beneath colonial unity and revolutionary politics.
Abigail Adams to John Adams | Braintree, Mass., March 31, 1776 I wish you would ever write me a letter half as long as I write you, and tell me,
Source: H. A. Washington, ed., The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, 9 vols. (Washington, D.C.: Taylor and Maury, 1853–54), 1:19–26. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000365325 … Congress proceeded the same day [July 2] to consider
Source: John Laurens to Henry Laurens, February 2, 1778, in William Gilmore Simms, ed., The Army Correspondence of Colonel John Lauren in the Years 1777–8 (New York: John B. Moreau,
Source: George Washington to the States, June 8–21, 1783, Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/99-01-02-11404. The great object, for which I had the honor to hold an appointment in the service of
Jefferson congratulated Holmes on his defense of the Missouri Compromise, but worried about the effects of drawing a literal line of separation across the nation in regard to a moral and political principle.
