For Sale or Hire, A FIRST RATE FEMALE COOK, Regularly bred to the business, young, and has two children.—Likewise, a very excellent plain Cook, who is a first rate Seamstress, Dairy-Maid and Washerwoman. They will be hired or sold to any one residing in the county. If sold a credit of twelve...

what is wanting to restore us to our station among our confederates? not more money from the people. enough has been raised by them, and appropriated to this very object. it is that it should be employed understandingly, and for their greatest good. that good requires that, while they are...

your letter to Elizabeth is full of complaints my dear Virginia which I suppose you think very just & therefore i as you say you have suffered so much from uneasiness at not hearing from any of us & you do really believe that you have good reason for your complaints I shall simply content...

but I am far from presuming to direct the reading of my fellow citizens, who are good enough judges themselves of what is worthy their reading.

nothing has ever presented so threatening an aspect as what is called the Missouri question. the Federalists compleatly put down, and despairing of ever rising again under the old division of whig and tory, devised a new one, of slave-holding, & non-slave-holding states, which, while it had a...

our right may be doubted of mortgaging posterity for the expenses of a war in which they will have a right to say their interests were not concerned. it is incumbent on every generation to pay it’s own debts as it goes. a principle which, if acted on, would save one half the wars of the world.

the disease of liberty is catching: those armies will take it in the South, carry it thence to their own country spread there the infection of revolution & representative government, and raise it’s people from the prone condition of brutes to the erect attitude of man.

this institution will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. for here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.

Agreeably to your request I have waited until now to see Mr N. Barksdale, but waited in vain; I have had several offers for the Negroes but did not hire them out as I hourly expected to see him. I send Nelson up to let you know that the Negroes may return to you provided you will give the sum of...

University of Virginia 4th Jany 1821 I have this day sold to Jno Perry all the bricks belonging to me at the place abovementioned likewise the house and Stable with all the oats I have on hand for the Sum of five hundred and twenty five dollars the Said Perry is to finish the work that is began...

You will be so good as to send the draft you promised me yesterday by Washington, you will please send me one for at least five hundred dollars, if you cannot let me have more, that sum with what I Expect to collect will Probable pay off my negrow hire, your compliance will much oblige yr obt sert

After being denied the pleasure of hearing from you for two months I need not assure you that yr favor of the 25th was very acceptable for I began to be very uneasey, for I cou’d not suffer my self to believe that your long silence was altogether caused by indolence or indifference towards my...