The compensations to collectors depend on you, and not on me.
The army is undergoing a chaste reformation.
The navy will be reduced to the legal establishment by the last of this
month.
Agencies in every department will be revised.
We shall push you to the uttermost in economizing.
A very early recommendation had been given to the Postmaster-General
to employ no printer, foreigner, or revolutionary tory in any of his
offices. This department is still untouched.
The arrival of Mr. Gallatin, yesterday, completed the organization of
our administration.
Accept assurances of my sincere esteem and high respect.
Th: Jefferson.
LETTER CCLXXXVI.--TO LEVI LINCOLN, July 11, 1801
TO LEVI LINCOLN.
Washington, July 11, 1801,
Dear Sir,
Your favor of the 15th came to hand on the 25th of June, and conveyed
a great deal of that information which I am anxious to receive. The
consolidation of our fellow-citizens in general is the great object we
ought to keep in view; and that being once obtained, while we
associate with us in affairs, to a certain degree, the federal sect
of republicans, we must strip of all the means of influence the Essex
junto, and their associate monocrats in every part of the Union. The
former differ from us only in the shades of power to be given to the
executive, being, with us, attached to republican government.
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