I hope I shall not be
long without hearing from you. The first dividend which will be drawn
for you and remitted, will be in January, and as the winter passages are
dangerous, it will not be forwarded till April: after that, regularly,
from six months to six months. This will be done by Mr. Barnes. I shall
leave this place in three weeks. The times do not permit an indulgence
in political disquisitions. But they forbid not the effusion of
friendship, and not my warmest towards you, which no time will alter.
Your principles and dispositions were made to be honored, revered, and
loved. True to a single object, the freedom and happiness of man,
they have not veered about with the changelings and apostates of our
acquaintance. May health and happiness ever attend you. Accept sincere
assurances of my affectionate esteem and respect. Adieu.
Th: Jefferson.
LETTER CCXXXVIII.--TO JAMES MADISON, June 21, 1798
TO JAMES MADISON.
Philadelphia, June 21, 1798.
Dear Sir,
Yours of the 10th instant is received. I expected mine of the 14th would
have been my last from hence, as I had proposed to set out on the 20th;
but on the morning of the 19th, we heard of the arrival of Marshall
at New York, and I concluded to stay and see whether that circumstance
would produce any new projects.
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