Extract from Benjamin Rush to James Currie

Philadelphia, July 26, 1796

It is expected that Mr. Washington will retire next fall. If so, the contest for his successor will be between Mr. Adams and Mr. Jefferson. The former is devoted to monarchy in all its forms and consequences. The latter is a pure republican, enlightened at the same time in chemistry, natural history, and medicine. He is, in a word, a Citizen of the World and the friend of universal peace and happiness.

Published in L.H. Butterfield, ed. Letters of Benjamin Rush (1951), 2:779.
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