we are certainly indebted to those who think our revolution worthy of their pen, and who will do justice to our actions and motives.

I subscribe with pleasure to the publication of your volumes of poems. I anticipate the same pleasure from them which the perusal of those heretofore published has given me ... under the shade of a tree one of your volumes will be a pleasant pocket companion.

I thank you for the kindness towards myself which breathes through your letter. the first of all our consolations is that of having faithfully fulfilled our duties: the next, the approbation & good will of those who have witnessed it

you will find me in habitual good health, great contentedness, enfeebled in body, impaired in memory, but without decay in my friendships.

come as you will, or as you can, it will always be joy enough to me.

my opinion has ever been that, until more can be done for them, we should endeavor, with those whom fortune has thrown on our hands, to feed & clothe them well, protect them from ill usage, require such reasonable labor only as is performed voluntarily by freemen, and be led by no...

their amalgamation with the other colour produces a degradation to which no lover of his country, no lover of excellence in the human character can innocently consent.

I have seen no proposition so expedient on the whole, as that of emancipation of those [slaves] born after a given day, and of their education and expatriation at a proper age.

mine on the subject of the slavery of negroes have long since been in possession of the public, and time has only served to give them stronger root. the love of justice & the love of country plead equally the cause of these people, and it is a mortal reproach to us that they should have...

In persuance of a Resolution of Congress of the 11th of January last, and of one of the 4th of February following, I have the honor to transmit to you herewith a copy of the Secret Journal of the Old Congress, in 4. vols. together with a printed copy of the Marshal’s Returns of the 4th Census. I...