Extract from Thomas Jefferson to the New Haven Merchants

Washington July 12. 1801

Of the various Executive duties, no one excites more anxious concern than that of placing the interests of our fellow citizens in the hands of honest men, with understandings sufficient for their station. no duty at the same time, is more difficult to fulfill.

PrC (DLC). Published in PTJ, 34:554.
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