1To Thomas Jefferson from Pendleton District, S.C., 16th Regiment, 4 May 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
To Thomas Jefferson President of the United States Sir, after public authority having pronounced you our chief magistrate, It would be doing injustice to our feelings (governed as we are by principals of Freedom and Public Liberty) to surpress the lively sensations created thereby. In this circumstance alone to find what has been so long long anticipated, and so ardently wished for realized in...