1To John Adams from William Cunningham, 6 May 1809 (Adams Papers)
...propriety postpone to posterity, than refer to your determination, or pronounce, to you, my own. Such is my opinion of the late Idol of the Federal party. If he would not, like “Moloch, vault over all impediments to seize the goal of his ambition,” his course was undeviatingly shaped towards it. At the fourth Presidential election, it was, I suspect, his intention to keep the Nation...