Charles G. Haines to Thomas Jefferson, 18 August 1818
From Charles G. Haines
New York Aug. 18. 1818.
Hon. Sir
I take the liberty of sending you my pamphlet, concerning the Great Western Canal, written at the request of The New York Corresponding Association for the promotion of Internal Improvements.
I cannot but congratulate a Statesman, so distinguished as yourself among the Fathers of our Republic, that you have lived to see the day, when your toils and your sacrifices are repaid by the unparalleled happiness and prosperity of the Nation, to whose existence and welfare you have so greatly contributed.
Chas G. Haines.
RC (DLC); endorsed by TJ as received 1 Sept. 1818 and so recorded in SJL. RC (MHi); address cover only; with PoC of TJ to John Barnes, 7 Dec. 1818, on verso; addressed: “Hon. Thomas Jefferson, State of Virginia,” with “Monticello” added in a different hand; franked; postmarked New York, with inconsistent date of 17 Aug. Enclosure: Haines, Considerations on the Great Western Canal, from the Hudson to Lake Erie: with a view of its Expence, Advantages, and Progress (Brooklyn, 1818; , 5 [no. 217]; TJ’s copy in PPAmP, inscribed by Haines [trimmed]: “Hon. Thos Jeff[erson] from The Au[. . .]”).
Charles Glidden Haines (1793–1825), attorney and author, was a native of Canterbury, Merrimack County, New Hampshire. He worked as a government clerk in that state before graduating from Middlebury College in 1816. Thereafter Haines studied law, first in Vermont and later in New York City. A supporter of DeWitt Clinton, he became the governor’s private secretary at Albany. Haines was admitted to the New York bar in 1821. He wrote numerous political pamphlets and newspaper articles, and from 1822 to 1823 he collaborated with other lawyers in the publication of the United States Law Journal, and Civilian’s Magazine. Haines was admitted to the bar of the United States Supreme Court in 1824 and acted as cocounsel with Henry Clay in Ogden v. Saunders, a case involving the constitutionality of the New York state bankruptcy laws. Governor Clinton appointed him adjutant general for the state in 1825, but Haines died in New York City before taking office (DAB; Haines, Memoir of Thomas Addis Emmet, with a biographical notice of Mr. Haines [1829], 5–32; Bela Bates Edwards, Biography of Self Taught Men [1832], 219–23; Walter E. Howard and Charles E. Prentiss, comps., Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont … 1800 to 1900 [1901], 55; New York Mercantile Advertiser, 4, 6 July 1825).
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