Marshall, who has voted with the
republicans this session.
*****
Accept assurances of constant and affectionate esteem to Mrs. Madison
and yourself from, Dear Sir, your sincere friend and servant,
Th: Jefferson.
LETTER CCLX.--TO GIDEON GRANGER, August 13, 1800
TO GIDEON GRANGER.
Monticello, August 13, 1800.
Dear Sir,
I received with great pleasure your favor of June the 4th, and am much
comforted by the appearance of a change of opinion in your State; for
though we may obtain, and I believe shall obtain a majority in the
legislature of the United States, attached to the preservation of the
federal constitution according to its obvious principles, and those on
which it was known to be received; attached equally to the preservation
to the States of those rights unquestionably remaining with them;
friends to the freedom of religion, freedom of the press, trial by jury,
and to economical government; opposed to standing armies, paper systems,
war, and all connection, other than commerce, with any foreign nation;
in short, a majority firm in all those principles which we have espoused
and the federalists have opposed uniformly; still, should the whole body
of New England continue in opposition to these principles of government,
either knowingly or through delusion, our government will be a very
uneasy one.
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