Be so good as to inform me if there be any
misapprehension in this, as some steps on our part may be necessary in
consequence of it.
1 have the honor to be, with the most perfect esteem, Sir, your most
obedient and most humble servant,
Th: Jefferson,
LETTER LXXXVII.--TO MR. HAMMOND, December 12, 1791
TO MR. HAMMOND.
Philadelphia, December 12, 1791.
Sir,
I take the liberty of enclosing you an extract of a letter from a
respectable character, giving information of a Mr. Bowles, lately come
from England into the Creek country, endeavoring to excite that nation
of Indians to war against the United States, and pretending to be
employed by the government of England. We have other testimony of these
his pretensions, and that he carries them much farther than is here
stated. We have too much confidence in the justice and wisdom of the
British government, to believe they can approve of the proceedings of
this incendiary and impostor, or countenance for a moment a person who
takes the liberty of using their name for such a purpose; and I make the
communication, merely that you may take that notice of the case which in
your opinion shall be proper.
I have the honor to be, with great and sincere esteem, Sir, your most
obedient and most humble servant,
Th: Jefferson.
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