RC (DLC); at foot of text: “Honble Th: Jefferson. Monticello va”; endorsed by TJ as received 7 Feb. 1818 and so recorded in SJL. Enclosure: Dewitt Clinton’s gubernatorial address to the New York legislature, 27 Jan. 1818, stating that it was the responsibility of government “to superintend and advance the interests of Agriculture” (p. 4); stressing the importance of improving New York’s waterways, roads, and canals; espousing the benefits of the Lancasterian system of education; proposing significant tax cuts and the reduction of the state debt; recommending militia reform and increased military preparedness; suggesting the more widespread use of solitary confinement in New York penitentiaries; submitting that, while “the unfortunate debtor” should not be incarcerated, “rigorous provisions ought to be adopted for the punishment of fraud”; arguing that current policy toward the poor encouraged pauperism by taxing the industrious “for the support of an idle beggar,” a situation that might be alleviated by reducing charitable expenditures and implementing a program of “coercive labor” (p. 11); deploring the depredations committed against the Indians residing in the state and calling for their better protection; declaring that the large number of New York institutions issuing banknotes led to the “banishment of metalic money, the loss of commercial confidence, the exhibition of fictitious capital, the increase of civil prosecutions, the multiplication of crimes, the injurious enhancement of prices, and the dangerous extension of credit” (p. 12); and laying various papers before the legislature for its attention during the coming session (Journal of the Senate of the State of New-York [1818 sess.], 4–13; also printed in Albany Gazette & Daily Advertiser, 28 Jan. 1818, and other newspapers; possibly Poor, Jefferson’s Library description begins Nathaniel P. Poor, Catalogue. President Jefferson’s Library, 1829 description ends , 11 [no. 689]).