111To Thomas Jefferson from Josef Ignacio de Viar and Josef de Jaudenes, 25 May 179[3] (Jefferson Papers)
We received with due respect your letter of the 21st. inst. and have this new assurance of the sincere desire of the President of the US. to preserve the peace and harmony subsisting between Spain and the US. For the same reason which prevented your making any reflections on the treaties with the Creeks, Choctaws and Chickasaws, we avoid at present transmitting you a voluminous relation, well...
112Enclosure: Carondelet’s Speech to the Cherokee Nation, 24 November 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
To the chiefs, warriors and others of the Cherokee nation. Brothers. I have seen with much satisfaction the chiefs Respiracion, Chickamoga Charles, and the Bloody-fellow warrior of your nation: I have heard their words, which I will preserve in my heart. The losses and misfortunes of your nation have afflicted me, and I desire sincerely to relieve them. I transmit to the great king of the...
113To Thomas Jefferson from Nathaniel Anderson, 26 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I duly received your Esteemed favor of the 19th Current, and return you my Sincere thanks for your friendly disposition to Serve me, which encourages me to make a further request, that is to give me your Opinion from time to time of the Neutrality of the United States of America, in the present European War, As I have lately Ventured to lay out a large Sum of Money in two American Ships, and...
114To Thomas Jefferson from Edmund Randolph, 26 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The 14th. article of our treaty with France has shut out all general reasoning from the law of nations, on the memorial of Benjamin Holland and Peter Mackie. The flour and meal were actually shipped after the declaration of war, made by France on the 1st. of february 1793. If the inquiry was to depend on their knowledge of the declaration, their relief would be very doubtful at least. But as...
115From Thomas Jefferson to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 26 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Your and Mr. Randolph’s welcome favors of the 16th. came to hand yesterday, by which I perceive that your post-day for writing is the Thursday. Maria is here and, tho not in flourishing health, is well. I will endeavour to prevail on her to write, and perhaps may succeed, as the day is too wet to admit her saunters on the banks of the Schuylkill, where she passes every Sunday with me. We are...
116From Thomas Jefferson to Hugh Rose, 26 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I received yesterday your favor of the 13th. and I hasten to answer it, tho’ a long interruption of my attention to questions of law renders it necessary for me to give opinions on them with great diffidence, and especially where the Virginia laws come into consideration, as they have been so much changed since I knew any thing of them. As these stood when I left Virginia in 1784. you might...
117From Thomas Jefferson to George Wythe, [26 May 1793] (Jefferson Papers)
I duly received, my Dear Sir, the note you inclosed for the 64. dollars which was paid.—We have two blind stories here of which as yet we make nothing. The one is that DuMourier is gone over to the Austrians. The credit of this stands on an English paper only. It is opposed (not by the virtue of the man; he has none, but) by the great forfeit of reputation which he has acquired with the world,...
118To Thomas Jefferson from Edmond Charles Genet, 27 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Mon prédecesseur m’a remis la lettre que vous lui aves ecritte le 15 de ce mois en lui communiquant differens mémoires de l’envoyé du roi d’ angleterre et les décisions que le Gouvernement americain s’est empressé de prendre d’après les plaintes de ce Ministre. Le premier de ses griefs que vous rapportes dans votre lettre, Monsieur, porte sur un fait faux; Je n’ai aucune connaissance des...
119Memorial from Edmond Charles Genet, 27 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Le Soussigné Ministre plenipotentiaire de la Republique Française a l’honneur d’informer Monsieur le Secretaire d’etat Jefferson que le Citoyen Gedeon Henfield né à Salem officier à bord du Corsaire de la République Française le Citoyen Genet a été arreté et mis en prison en vertu, dit-on, d’un mandat de l’alderman Baker de cette ville qui l’accuse d’avoir enfreint, en s’embarquant à bord du...
120From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Holland and Peter Mackie, 27 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Your memorial claiming a part of the cargo on board the brigantine Little Sarah, a British vessel taken by the French frigate L’Embuscade, having been referred to the Attorney General of the US. I now inclose you a copy of his answer by which you will perceive it to be his opinion that you are not entitled to restitution. I have therefore rendered you the only service which the nature of the...