1To George Washington from Du Bois de l’ Amoligniere, 27 July 1783 (Washington Papers)
I send inclosed a discourse to the people whose liberty is the fruit of your labour this discourse dictated by circumstances may serve as a preface to an important work a project of Legislation, at which I have been some time working—I am no legislator and therefore it is not my own glory that I have in view, but solely the happiness of the Nation who shall adopt it—to offer it to America will...