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: “Martin Van Buren, Letter to Thomas Ritchie, January 13, 1827,” in History of U.S. Political Parties, vol. 1, ed. Arthur Schlesinger (New York: Chelsea House, 1973), 539–541. Dear
Gouverneur Morris warns that New York’s resistance to the Coercive Acts risks mob rule, exposing class tensions beneath colonial unity and revolutionary politics.
Source: Paul Leicester Ford, ed., The Writings of John Dickinson (Philadelphia: Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1895), 1:312–22. https://archive.org/details/writingsofjohndi00dickrich/page/312 My dear countrymen, There is another late act of Parliament, which appears
Sources: Abigail Adams to John Adams, March 31, 1776, Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/04-01-02-0241; J. Adams to A. Adams, April 14, 1776, Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/04-01-02-0248; A. Adams to
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
Source: Thomas Jefferson to John Holmes. -04-22, 1820. Manuscript/Mixed Material. Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/mtjbib023795/. I thank you, dear sir, for the copy you have been so kind as to send
Source: New Letters and Papers of Lincoln, compiled by Paul M. Angle (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1930), 240–241, https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000318262. All this is not the result of accident. It has a
