They are now proceeding
to instruments, every word of which must be weighed with precision.
Heretofore, too, they were hooped together by a common enemy. This is no
longer the case. Yet a thorough view of the wisdom and rectitude of
this assembly disposes me more to hope they will find some means of
surmounting the difficulty of their numbers, than to fear that yielding
to the unmanageableness of debate in such a crowd, and to the fatigue of
the experiment, they may be driven to adopt, in the gross, some one of
the many projects which will be proposed.
There is a germ of schism in the pretensions of Paris to form its
municipal establishment independently of the authority of the nation. It
has not yet proceeded so far, as to threaten danger. The occasion does
not permit me to send the public papers; but nothing remarkable has
taken place in the other parts of Europe.
I have the honor to be, with the most perfect respect and esteem, Sir,
your most obedient and most humble servant,
Th: Jefferson.
LETTER VI.--TO MR. CARMICHAEL, August 9, 1789
TO MR. CARMICHAEL.
Paris, August 9, 1789.
Dear Sir,
Since your last of March the 27th, I have only written that of May
the 3th. The cause of this long silence, on both parts has been the
expectation I communicated to you of embarking for America.
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