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Extract from Thomas Jefferson to Volney, 9 Apr. 1797 [Quote]

I hope I shall see you in Georgetown, and certainly shall if the movements of the stage will permit it: for I prefer that conveyance to travelling with my own horses, because it gives me, what I have long been without, an opportunity of plunging into the mixed characters of my country, the most...

Extract from Thomas Jefferson to Volney, 9 Apr. 1797 [Quote]

I have been in the enjoiment of our delicious spring. the soft genial temperature of the season, just above the want of fire, enlivened by the reanimation of birds, flowers, the fields, forests & gardens, has been truly delightful & continues to be so ... indeed my experience of the...

Thomas Jefferson's Land Grant for 8 1/2 Acres in Bedford County, 27 Apr. 1797

Thos Jefferson 8½ Acres BedfordExd James Wood Esquire Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia To all to whom these Presents shall come Greeting Know ye that by Virtue of a Land office Treasury Warrant Number one thousand eight hundred and thirty two, issued the third day of March one thousand...

Extract from Thomas Jefferson to Elbridge Gerry, 13 May 1797 [Quote]

I have been happy however in believing ... that whatever follies we may be led into as to foreign nations, we shall never give up our union, the last anchor of our hope, & that alone which is to prevent this heavenly country from becoming an arena of gladiators.

Extract from Thomas Jefferson to Elbridge Gerry, 13 May 1797 [Quote]

When I retired from this place and the office of Secretary of state, it was in the firmest contemplation of never more returning here. There had indeed been suggestions in the public papers that I was looking towards a succession to the President’s chair. But feeling a consciousness of their...

Thomas Jefferson’s Land Grant for 100 Acres in Campbell County, 22 May 1797

Thomas Jefferson 100 acres CampbellExd James Wood Esquire Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia To all To whom these presents shall come Greeting Know ye that by virtue of a Land Office Treasury Warrant Number seventeen hundred and twenty four issued the fifth day of December one thousand...

Thomas Jefferson’s Land Grant for 800 Acres in Campbell and Bedford Counties, 23 May 1797

Thomas Jefferson 800 Acres Campbell & Bedford CountiesExd James Wood Esquire Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia To all To whom these presents shall come Greeting Know ye that by Virtue of a Land Office Treasury Warrant Number Seventeen hundred and twenty two issued the sixth day of...

Extract from Thomas Jefferson to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 8 June 1797 [Quote]

when I look to the ineffable pleasures of my family society, I become more & more disgusted with the jealousies, the hatred, & the rancorous & malignant passions of this scene, & lament my having ever again been drawn into public view.

Extract from John Adams to Uriah Forrest, 20 June 1797 [Quote]

I received yesterday your favor of the 23rd ... The paper inclosed in it is a serious thing. It will be a motive, in addition to many others, for me to be upon my guard. It is evidence of a mind, soured, yet seeking for popularity, and eaten to a honeycomb with ambition, yet weak, confused,...

Extract from Thomas Jefferson to Elbridge Gerry, 21 June 1797 [Quote]

the man who loves his country on it’s own account, and not merely for it’s trappings of interest or power, can never be divorced from it: can never refuse to come forward when he finds that she is engaged in dangers which he has the means of warding off.

Extract about Thomas Jefferson, by John Bernard [ca. 1797–1800] [Quote]

through the kindness of General Washington I was introduced to Mr. Jefferson, who proved one of my sincerest, though not most fortunate, friends ... In all the chief requisites of the social character Mr. Jefferson appeared to me to possess few equals. His heart was warmed with a love for the...

Extract from Thomas Jefferson to Volney, 5 Aug. 1797 [Quote]

it is the wisest philosophy which directs us always to view circumstances under their most pleasing aspect.

Extract from Thomas Jefferson to St. George Tucker, 28 Aug. 1797 [Quote]

as to the mode of emancipation, I am satisfied that that must be a matter of compromise between the passions the prejudices, & the real difficulties which will each have their weight in that operation. perhaps the first chapter of this history, which has begun in St Domingo, & the next...

Extract from Thomas Jefferson to Arthur Campbell, 1 Sept. 1797 [Quote]

we owe gratitude to France, justice to England, good will to all, and subservience to none ... it was by the sober sense of our citizens that we were safely and steadily conducted from monarchy to republicanism, and it is by the same agency alone we can be kept from falling back.

Extract from Thomas Jefferson to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 27 Dec. 1797 [Quote]

I envy those who stay at home, enjoying the society of their friendly neighbors, blessed with their firesides, and employed in doing something every day which looks usefully to futurity.

Extract from Thomas Jefferson to Maria Jefferson Eppes, 7 Jan. 1798 [Quote]

harmony in the marriage state is the very first object to be aimed at.

Extract from Thomas Jefferson to Hugh Williamson, 11 Feb. 1798 [Quote]

as to myself I sincerely wish that the whole Union may accomodate their interests to each other, & play into their hands mutually as members of the same family, that the wealth & strength of any one part should be viewed as the wealth & strength of the whole.

Extract from John Nicholas to George Washington, 22 Feb. 1798 [Quote]

I do now know him to be one of the most artful, intriguing, industrious and double-faced politicians in all America.

Extract from Thomas Jefferson to Peregrine Fitzhugh, 23 Feb. 1798 [Quote]

I do not think it for the interest of the general government itself, & still less of the Union at large, that the state governments should be so little respected as they have been. however I dare say that in time all these as well as their central government, like the planets revolving round...

Extract from Thomas Jefferson to William Strickland, 23 Mar. 1798 [Quote]

science never appears so beautiful as when applied to the uses of human life, nor any use of it so engaging as agriculture & domestic economy.

Maria Jefferson Eppes to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 1 Apr. 1798

I must again write to you my Dear Sister tho’ a painful doubt has sometimes arrisen, whether, or not, it is agreeable to you; & as much as I have endeavor endeavour’d to find reasons for your silence I can imagine none that could for so long a time, have occasion’d it. I was sorry to hear...

Extract from Thomas Jefferson to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 17 May 1798 [Quote]

politics & party hatreds destroy the happiness of every being here. they seem, like salamanders, to consider fire as their element.

Extract from Thomas Jefferson to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 31 May 1798 [Quote]

yours of the 12th inst ... by kindling up all my recollections increases my impatience to leave this place & every thing which can be disgusting, for Monticello and my dear family, comprising every thing which is pleasurable to me in this world.

Extract from Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Smith (of Maryland), 22 Aug. 1798 [Quote]

Dr Franklin, the greatest man & ornament of the age and country in which he lived.

Extract from Thomas Jefferson’s Fair Copy of the Kentucky Resolutions of 1798, [before 4 Oct. 1798] [Quote]

What the government is, if it be not a tyranny, which the men of our choice have conferred on our President, and the President of our choice has assented to, & accepted over the friendly strangers, to whom the mild spirit of our country, & it’s laws had pledged hospitality &...

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