From the original letter at the Library of Congress. New Rochelle (N.Y.) April 20 1805 Dear Sir I wrote you on 1st Janry from N Rochelle mentioning my intention of spending part of the Winter at Washington; but the severity of the Winter and the bad condition of the roads and rivers prevented me and […]
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From the original letter at the Library of Congress. No. 1 Dear Sir I will first give you an account of my own operations and then pass on to such other matters as may occur. I am settled down on my farm at New Rochelle 20 miles from N York. It is a pleasant and
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To Mr HULBERT, of Sheffield, one of the mortified federal members of the Massachusetts legislature from the Aurora in Philadelphia, March 12, 1805. WHEN the poison-tooth of a rattle snake is drawn, the bite and slaver of the reptile, like the slander and foam of Mr. Hulbert, become deprived of the power of injuring. The
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From the original letter at the Library of Congress. 1805, Jan. 25 Dear Sir I wrote you on the 1st Janry from N Rochelle and mentioned spending part of the Winter at Washington. But as the present state of the weather renders the passage of the rivers dangerous and travelling precarious I have given up
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From the original letter at the Library of Congress. New Rochelle N.Y. Janry. 1, 1805 Dear Sir I have some thoughts of coming to Washington this Winter as I may as well spend a part of it there as elsewhere. But lest bad roads or any other circumstance should prevent me I suggest a thought
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from the Aurora, September 22, 1804 A publication having the appearance of a memorial and remonstrance, to be presented to Congress at the ensuing session, has appeared in several papers. It is therefore open to examination, and I offer you my remarks upon it. The title and introductory paragraph are as follows: “To the Congress
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From Richard Gimbel’s pamphlet New Political Writings by Thomas Paine New Rochelle, New York State August 27, 1804 I have received three of your Papers. The first wherein you announce for publication of the piece I sent to Mr. Bishop signed A friend to Constitutional Order. The next, in which the piece is published; and
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FOR THE AURORA. NONSENSE FROM NEW YORK. from the Philadelphia Aurora, August 23, 1804. The following absurd and extravagant publication entitled “Reflections,” is copied from Lang’s N. York Gazette, of July 27. I send it you, accompanied with some remarks. “The loss of gen. Hamilton (says this writer) cannot be considered by those who knew
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From the Aurora in Philadelphia of August 7, 1804: REMARKS *On Governeur Morrisis funeral oration on general Hamilton. The quotations from the oration are taken from Cheetham’s N. York country paper, the Watch-Tower, of July 18. AS Governeur Morris is fond of criticizing others, he becomes a fair object for criticism himself. Give and take
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From the original letter now in private hands. New Rochelle July 9th 1804 Fellow Citizen – As the weather is now getting hot at New-York and the people begin to get out of Town you may as well come up here and help me settle my accounts with the man who lives on the place.
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From the original letter at the New-York Historical Society. March 24, 1804 Dear Sir I received your letter by Mr. Nixon and also a former letter but I have been so unwell this Winter with a fit of gout, tho’ not so bad as I had at Bordenton about 20 years ago, that I could
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From the Philadelphia Aurora, March 6, 1804. TO THE EDITOR. As the good sense of the people in their elections have now put the affairs of the union in a prosperous condition at home, and abroad, there is nothing immediately important for the subject of a letter, I therefore send you a piece on another
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