I thank you for an Address equally respectfull and affectionate, & for your generous approbation of my Administration. I congratulate you on the remarkable Felicity of your District, is so on the entire an Unanimity of political sentiment and opinion, which prevails in your District, a felicity as prescious as it is remarkable. Our Fellow Citizens throughout the Union, agree in general,...
2To John Adams from James Vincent Ball, 10 November 1798 (Adams Papers)
Permit me to address you on a subject which I hope will be viewed by you as of sufficient importance to authorize it—As rank is an object with every military character, we come into the army with the prospect of promotion in view, and thereby are prompted to acquire an ample Knowledge of the several duty’s annexed to the different grades—When once this prospect is distroyed, and the precedent...
3To John Adams from Sylvanus Bourne, 10 November 1798 (Adams Papers)
As I was unwilling to be totally idle, I have employed some of the hours of leisure, which the deprivations of buisness has lately given me, to throw on paper a few crude observations on the existing state of Affairs between France & the UStates: a copy of the original in English I forwarded sometime past to the Secy. of State: since which, I have translated it into french with some aditions &...
4To John Adams from Cyrus Griffin, 10 November 1798 (Adams Papers)
This being the first instance of capture and trial in my Court under the late Acts of Congress, I take the liberty to inform you that the Ship Niger, brought into this District by Capt. Nicholson of the Constitution, after long and very able arguments by the best Lawyers of this Country, was decreed by me to be restored to the Respondents, together with the ordinary Costs of defence.— It...
C’est avec bien du Plaisir, mon très cher Général, que j’ai reçu hier Votre Lettre du 22. aout dernier. Vos Souhaits sont déja en quelque Sorte remplis, puisque on est convenu ici que, d’un Coté, on n’employera point aux opérations terrestres des Troupes anglaises, vu que les forces auxiliares de Terre devront ètre uniquement américaines, tandis que, de l’autre, la Marine Sera purement...
6From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Hamilton, 10 November 179[8] (Hamilton Papers)
I wrote to you, My Eliza, from Trenton. Yesterday afternoon I arrived at this place. I have yielded to the pressing solicitations of Mr. Wolcott to take up my abode at his house, which you know is at the corner of Spruce and Fourth Streets. Mrs Wolcott is in better health than she was but is still very thin and feeble. Without much more care than the thing is worth, her stay in this...
7To Alexander Hamilton from John Jay, 10 November 1798 (Hamilton Papers)
I this moment recd. your’s dated the 8 Instant. My letter to Mr. Hoffman was not official. It was written to convey Information which however unpleasant was in my opinion useful to him to receive. His pecuniary Embarrassments called for circumspection on his part, and I intimated to him the propriety of accounting for the Expenditure of the amount of a preceding warrant before he recd. a...
8To Alexander Hamilton from James McHenry, [10 November 1798] (Hamilton Papers)
I received your letter of yesterday this morning at 5 o’clock. mr wolcott will send instructions by the express to secure the powder provisionally for the public. We do not absolutely want the article, and could go on for some time without it. I think it right however that it should not leave the country. Yours affectionately ADf , James McHenry Papers, Library of Congress. Letter not found....
9To Alexander Hamilton from Samuel Ward, 10 November 1798 (Hamilton Papers)
New York, November 10, 1798. “… Will you permit me again to remind you of the conversation I had the honour to have with you in June last relative to importing a quantity of Powder—in consequence of which the owners of the ship Harvard orderd & have imported about 26 Tuns from Sweden in said Ship. Mess Mintum & Champlin who were equally concerned with me in this adventure have offerd this...
10Enclosure: James McHenry to George Washington, 10 November 1798 (Hamilton Papers)
It appears by a letter from the President, dated Quincy Octr. 22. 1798, that it will not be in his power to be in Philadelphia ’till near the time fixed upon for the meeting of Congress. In order however to prevent any injury to the public service, as it respects officering the troops, directed to be raised by the late acts of Congress, he has written to me as follows: “If you, and the...