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Gordon S. Wood, editor
THE LIBRARY OF AMERICA
Volume compilation, notes, and chronology copyright 2016 by
Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., New York, N.Y.
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quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.
Texts from The Adams Papers copyright 1961, 1993, 2005, 2007,
2009, 2011, 2012, 2013 by the Massachusetts Historical Society.
Used by permission of the Adams Family Papers,
Massachusetts Historical Society.
Texts from The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence
Between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams, edited
by Lester J. Cappon, copyright 1959 by the University of North
Carolina Press, renewed 1987 by Stanley B. Cappon. Published for
the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture.
Used by permission of the publisher, www.uncpress.unc.edu.
Texts from The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 24, edited by
Harold C. Siret, copyright 1976 by Columbia University Press.
Used by permission of the publisher.
Texts from The Diary of William Maclay and Other Notes on
Senate Debates, edited by Kenneth R. Bowling and Helen E. Veit,
volume 9 in the Documentary History of the First Federal Congress
of the United States of America, March 4, 1789March 3, 1791
copyright 1988 by Johns Hopkins University Press.
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The Hague Feb. 11. 1784.
D r Sir
Your kind Favour of the 30 committed to your Care.
You give me great Pleasure, Sir by your assurances that have Strengthened the American Union, the Authors of those Restrictions, depended upon our Divisions, and expected to increase them. I thought they would be disappointed. & am very glad to learn they are So.
The Establishment of Funds, for the Payment of our Debts Seems to be the most important and necessary Object of the publick Attention at present. I am Sorry to inform you that the Want of it has had very unhappy Effects in Europe, and has entirely suspended our public Credit in this Republick.
, is the Completion of his Character, which is the greatest our Country ever produced. She will never want a greater; a Succession of Such will insure her Felicity, and Prosperity. May he however live, and be again our great Pillar, if We sh d have another War. But my Friend, is the next Generation, likely to produce Such Characters? Are those morals and that Education which produced Such Men to be preserved or are they in danger? Are the Eyes of our People to be fixed as they have been upon Virtues, or upon Ribbons?
Let me beg of you sir to present my friendly Regards to D r Witherspoon to congratulate him upon the delicious opportunity he has of seeing his Friends in Europe in Peace, after the fatigues of a service in which has acted I feel an Affection and Veneration for all Such Men, which will never wear out, if the D r , or Yourself Should find it consistent with your affairs, to make an Excursion this Way, it would make me very happy to receive you at the Hague.
Congress, in May last resolved to send a Commission to D r Franklin, M r Jay and myself, to make a Treaty of Commerce I am much in the dark about their Intentions, in this respect, and some others. if D r Witherspoon or Yourself could inform me, you would oblige me.
Among your Ancient Acquaintances and Correspondents in England you will have an opportunity of undeceiving, many Persons and Some of high Rank. These, ought to have the Utmost Confidence in your Relations and Judgments, as they have had a long Experience of your being in the right and themselves in the Wrong. But there seems to be an utter Incapacity of comprehending the Truth respecting America. They go on from Generation to Generation, believing every false and discrediting every true Account. Nothing is necessary, after a thousand Experiences that they have been deceived, but the trouble of forging a new Chimra to obtain afresh their Confidence.
If you have occasion to write to me, you may address your Letters to me at the Hague, or under Cover to Merchants at Amsterdam.
With very great Esteem, and Respect I have the Honour to be, Dear sir,
The Hague March 24. 1784
Sir
I have received the Almanack you were pleased to Send me, and I beg of you to accept of my Thanks for it. I beg your Acceptance also of a Couple of Medals, which the Solely. Another has been Struck by the Society Liberty and Zeal in Friesland, but I have it not.
You ask my Opinion of Countrymen run generally mad, never will be Summoned by Congress, to become, the Legislator of America. The Legislation of America, has been long Since compleat, but if it were not, She has hundreds of Citizens better qualified, than any officer of her Army to be her Legislators.
No Town has been and perhaps none will be Surveyed for the Meeting of Congress.
The Portrait of M r Hancock has some resemblance in the Dress and Figure, but none at all in the Countenance. I have not M r Paines Portrait. I am sorry you have any Marks of an order of Cincinnatus which is the first Step taken to deface the Beauty of our Temple of Liberty.
We have had three grand Objects in View, in all our political Transactions. 1. Political and civil Liberty. 2. Liberty of Commerce. 3. religious Liberty, whatever tends to illustrate these, would be proper for your Use. These are our real Glory. But perhaps it might contribute more to the Sale of your Almanack to insert Some Things which arise more from our Vanity and Folly.
My poor Head is Scarcely worth preserving even in an Almanack, but as you request it, if I can conveniently get it done, you may perhaps have it, before the Year comes about.
I have &c.
The Hague March 28. 1784
Sir
I did not receive your Letter of the 8th, untill the day before yesterday. That I have not Seen with Pleasure, Approbation or Indifference, the Introduction into America, of So great an Innovation, asOccasion to Say any Thing about it, and then it was not I who introduced the Subject and then I Said very little.
It is not my Intention to discuss the question. it is too ample a Field. But it is not done by the Sovereigns of our Country. What would be Said, in any Nation of Europe, if a new order, was instituted by private Gentlemen, without consulting the Sovereign? it is against our Confederation and against the Constitutions of Several States as it appears to me. it is against the Spirit of our Governments and the Genius of our People. Well may our Government be weak, if the Sovereign, the Confederation and Constitutions are thus neglected. it has and will unavoidably introduce Contests and Dissentions, than which nothing is more injurious to Republican States, especially new ones. I Sincerely hope our officers, whose Merits, no Man is more willing to acknowledge and reward than I am, in any Way consistent with our Principles, will voluntarily, after a little reflection lay it aside. I have written nothing to America upon the subject.
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