Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1829-08-04
Mr.. JEFrERsoN's CORRESPONDENCE.

MR.. JEFFERsoN's CORRESPONDENCE.
friend in Virginia, to whom we have been 'ndebt,
ed before for similar favor has sent US few pages OF
the fourth volume of Mr. Jefersons Memoirs and Cor
respondence from which we take the two letters an
nexed It viii be seen that they on subjects quite
opposite IN their nature; the FIST relating to political
circumstances and occurrences but mperfectly kaown
10 generation that has since grown up, and winch
voud form the subject of few interesting essa 5. II
one suitably qualified would undertake the task; the
other an sectonate letter to near relative, and may
be placed by the side Of letters written under like cir
cumstances by Chesterfield and Franklin There are
two three sentences however, IN TINS letter. a'ua
ing to political antagonists which. however proper
NIGHT have been write them tally to grand
son. the compiler would have done well to omit 40
or three other Letters in cur possession VIII De gwen
hereafter
II may be web in this place to correct erroneous
statement which appeared in paper some days ago,
copied from other Journal 1t was stated that
Mr. Persons Memoirs would consist of six Volumes
they will make but four, the last OF which IS in press
and viii be completed in fewwsskS; - ost Courier
TO JAMES BROWN
Washington, October p, 1908
DEAR Sin: You will wonder hat your letter
OF Ju,e Sd. should not he acknowledged ill
this date. never received IL Ill Sep emher
the 18th, and coming soon af'er 10 tHis place,
.be accumulation IF business found nere has
prevented my taking IL up i'll now. Tba, you
the Union, | never for one moment believed.
know your Americanism too well b. IS hr
enterprise AZ ainst Mexico was Of very dlffer-
en-, character, had supposed what heard ON
that subject 10 BE- possible You disavow L {;
tina, is enough for me, and forevcr dismiss
the idea. | wish il were poNs bl" 70 extend my
be'i-f If innocence 10 very different descrlP
ton Of men in New Orleans; but think there
is ,ufi lent evidence Of there being there sc,
Of foreign sdventurers, and native malconten's,
VINO would concur in any tn erprise In separate
thar county from this. ! did wish to see these
people get whaI they deserved; and under the
tack from powerful eAemy, self-pseserva'ion
is paramount to all law, expected that instead
of invoking the forms Of the law 10 cover trail
tors, all good citizens would have zone urreh in
securing them Should we have ever gained
our Revolution, If we had bound our hands by
manscIes OF :he law, not only in The beginning e.
but in any part of the re, dictionary conflict !?
There are extreme Cases where the laws be-
come inadequate even 10 their own preserva-
tion and where the universal resource is a die
ta,or. or marital law. Was New Orleans in
that situation Although we knew here ,ha,
the force destined agains' it was suppressed on
the Ohio, YET we supposed this unknown at
New Orleans at the lime tina, Burr's accom-
BILE them 10 perpetrare its suppression, ard lha,
i, was reasonable, according 20 tn state Of in
formation there, 10 act on The expectation Of
daily attack. Of this you are The bes, Judge.
Burr is in London, and is giving out to his
friends that that government Offers him two
millions OF dollars the momen, he can raise an
ensign Of bellion as big as an handkerchief.
Some Of his partisans VII believe this be cause
they wish il. But those who know him best
will not believe il the more because he says IL.
For myself, even ill his most ha,trring periods
Of the conspiracy, | never entertained one mo-
ments fear. II, long and intimate knowledge
Of my counlrymen, satisfied and satisfies NE.
that let there ever be occasion 10 display the
banners ofthe law, and the world with Sc Nv
few and pititul are those who shall array them
selves in opposition. l as little fear foreign III
vasion have indeed thought it Guty 10 be pre-
pared 10 meet ven the most powerful, that OF
Buouapsrte, for iustancp,b by the only means COM
petent tina; Of classhc siion Of the militia, aud
plscing the junior classes at the public dispo-
Sal; but the lesson he receives in Spain ex
,irpates sll apprt hensinns from my mind IT
in peninsula The ueck Of which is adjacent
TO him aud at his command, where he can
march an army without he possibility Of in
Perception or obstruction from any foreign
power, he finds il necessary TO begin viii an
army Of three hundred thousand men, 20 sub
due nation oil tive millions, brutaissd by ig-
norance, and ehervated by long peace, and
should 6sd constant reinforcements of thou
sands after thousands, necessary TO eff-c, at
last conques' a. doub fuI as deprecated, what
numbers would be necessary rsainst eight mil
lions Of free Anne rc ans, spread over such au
extent Of country as would wear him down Nv
mere marching, by want of food, Au,umnal dis
eases. Sc. How would they he brought. ard
how reunion ced across an ocean Of three thou
sand miles, in possession Of bitter enemy,
whose peace, like the repose Of dog, is osver
more rhan NONE ntary And for wha, For |
nothing but hard blows. II the Orlesnese Gre
oles would but contemplate tines. truths. they
would cling to the American Union, soul and
body, as ,neir firs, affection, and we should be |
a. If there a. we are every where else.