The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont

Thomas Jefferson

Taylor & Maury, 1853 - United States

Contents

• US467059: 3
• Gallatin Albert letters written to 23 26 29 36 42 49 50 59 70: 23
• iv: 32
• Russia Emperor of letter written to 358: 33
• Moore Thomas letter written to 73: 56
• Gamble James letter written to 204: 65
• Nemours Dupont de letters written to 127 432 456: 72
• Clarke General Wm letters written to 220 467: 79
• Short Wm letters written to 93 210 362 435: 83
• Nicholson Mr letter written to 45: 90
• Umphreys Colonel letter written to 415: 115
• Adams citizens of county of letter written to 262: 125
• La Fayette Marquis letter written to: 129
• Page John letter written to: 135
• Simms Colonel Charles letter written to 418: 146
• Pagnel Mr letter written to 581: 189
• Coxe Mr letters written to 57: 193
• STEREOTYPED BY PRINTED: 216
• Smith Mr letters written to 41 228 234 244 268 282 317 372: 228
• Bettay Mr letter written to: 246
• Washington Colonel letter written to: 276
• de la letter written to 421: 278
• VOL V: 289
• Smith Hon John letter written to 77: 293
• Gilliam Shelton letter written to: 301
• Patterson Robert letter written to 61: 302
• Lambert W letter written to 449: 304
• Leiper Mr letters written to 295 416: 320
• Bibb Mr letter written to: 326
• Smith Colonel Larkin letter written to 440: 342
• Lincoln Levi letters written to 264: 352
• Lincoln Lieut Governor letter written to 387: 369
• Bidwell Mr letters written to 14 125: 371
• Phalen Count letter written to 526: 383
• Waterhouse Dr letter written to: 393
• Logan Dr letter written to: 404
• Governors of States letter written to: 413
• Bloodgood Hammond Messrs letter written to 472: 414
• Granger Gideon letters written to 497: 429
• Main James letter written to 373: 432
• Spafford Mr letter written to: 445
• Griffith Elijah letter written to: 450
• Campbell John W letter written to: 465
• PUBLISHED: 466
• Weaver Mr letter written to 88: 483
• Hamilton Hon Paul letter written to: 494
• Representatives Speaker of House of letters written to 222 249: 501
• White Hugh L c letter written to: 520
• Turpin Dr Horatio letter written to 90: 524
• Rondey Wm letter written to 275: 533
• Hillard Captain Isaac letter written to: 551
• letter written to 430: 558
• Wilkinson General letters written to 24 38 109 198 305 359: 572
• McIntosh Wm letter written to 241: 573
• Humboldt Baron de letters written to 434: 580
• Williams J Peale C W letter written to 28: 593
• Miller Robert Mr letter written to 236: 597

Popular passages

Page 92 - It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of its benefits, than is done by its abandoned prostitution to falsehood. Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.

Page 439 - Behold, here I am: witness against me before the Lord, and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken ? or whose ass have I taken ? or whom have I defrauded ? whom have I oppressed ? or of whose hand have I received any bribe to blind mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it you. And they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither hast thou taken ought of any man's hand.

Page 301 - The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the disposition of public money.

Page 237 - This results not only from the provision that no law shall be made respecting the establishment or free exercise of religion, but from that also which reserves to the States the powers not delegated to the United States. Certainly, no power to prescribe any religious exercise, or to assume authority in religious discipline, has been delegated to the General Government.

Page 107 - The patient, treated on the fashionable theory, sometimes gets well in spite of the medicine. The medicine therefore restored him, and the young doctor receives new courage to proceed in his bold experiments on the lives of his fellow creatures.

Page 465 - Convention printed them, in the form of a pamphlet, under the title of 'A Summary View of the Rights of British America.

Page 140 - A more virtuous man, I believe, does not exist, nor one who is more enthusiastically devoted to better the condition of mankind. He will probably, one day, fall a victim to it, as a monarch of that principle does not suit a Russian noblesse. He is not of the very first order of understanding, but he is of a high one. He has taken a peculiar affection to this country & it's government, of which he has given me public as well as personal proofs.

Page 140 - They have often enough, God knows, given us cause of war before ; but it has been on points which would not have united the nation. But now they have touched a chord which vibrates in every heart. Now then is the time to settle the old and the new.

Page 28 - It is so extravagant that those who know his understanding would not believe it if the proofs admitted doubt. He has meant to place himself on the throne of Montezuma, and extend his empire to the Alleghany, seizing on New Orleans as the instrument of compulsion for our western States.

Page 429 - My doubts were the result of personal observation on the limited sphere of my own State, where the opportunities for the development of their genius were not favorable, and those of exercising it still less so. I expressed them therefore with great hesitation; but whatever be their degree of talent, it is no measure of their rights.* Because Sir Isaac Newton was superior to others in understanding, he was not therefore lord of the person or property of others. On this subject they are gaining daily...

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont; Volume 5 of The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private : Published by the Order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the Original Manuscripts, Deposited in the Department of State, Henry Augustine Washington
• Author: Thomas Jefferson
• Publisher: Taylor & Maury, 1853
• Original from: Harvard University
• Digitized: Dec 6, 2007