The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-09-15
JEFFERSONs LETTERS, FROM SEVENTH VOLUME
OF HIS WRITINGS.


MONTICELLO, July 3, 1919
DEAR SIR am in debt to you for your letters of May
2lst 9th, and June 22d. The first, delivered me by Mr.
Greenwood gave the qualification of his acquaintance
and qualification it always TO be made acquainted with
gentlemen of candor worth, and information, found
Mr. Greenwood be- That the Subject of Mr. Samuel
Adams Wells shall not be forgotten n time and place
when il can be used TO his advantage.
But what has attracted my peculiar notice is the paper
from Meeklenbug county of North Carolina published in
the Essex Register which you so kind as to enclose
in last of June o. And you think il gem
uine. | believe it spurious deem ii TO be very
unjustabe quiz like that of the volcano infinitely
related to us having broken out in North Caro-
Lima, some half dozen years ago, in that part OF
the country and perhaps in that very county Of Meek
lenburg for do remember its precise locality If
this paper be really taken from the Raleigh Register
quoted, wonder it should have escaped Rche who cus
what good from every paper the bee from every flower
and the National intelgencer too which is edited by
North Caronian and that the fire should blaze all
in Essex thousand miles from where the spark is
said to have fallen But if really taken from the Raleigh
Register who is the narrator and the subscribed
real is fictitious the paper self2 1t appeals too
TO original book, which is burnt; to Mr. Alexander,
who is dead Joint letter from Caswell Hughes, and
Hooper, all dead copy sent to the dead Caswel and
another sent to Dr. Williamson probably dead, whose
memory did recoect in the history he has written of
North Carolina this gigantic step of its county of Neck
lenburg Henry, too is silent in his history of Marion
whose Of action is the country bordering on Neck
lenburg Ramsay Marshall Jones, Grardin Writ bisto-
rans of the adjacent States all silent When Mr. Henrys
resolutions far short of independence flew like lightning
through every paper and knded both sides OF the Attain
tic this flaming declaration, of the date, of the indie
pendence of Meckenburg county of the State of North
Carolina absolvng from the British allegiance and alb
uring all political connexion with that nation, although
h.ar Ennuv N
even twelve-month after when similar proposition is
first made in that body Armed with this bold example,
would you have addressed timd brethren in peas
Of thunder their tardy fears? Would not every advocate
of independence have rung the gories of Meckenburg
county in the State of North Carolina in the of the
doubling Dickinson and Others who hung SO heavily on
us? Yet the example ofndependent Meckenburg county,
in North Carolina, once quoted. The paper
speaks of the continued exerons of their delegation
Caswell Hooper, Hughes) din the of liberty and in
dependence"
Now, you remember well do, that we had not a
greater tory in Congress than Hooper, that Hughes
very neutrality-suspicious. FIRM sometimes feeble according
the day clear cloudy; that Caswe indeed
good whig and kept these gentlemen the notch while
he present. but that he left soon and their line of
conduct became then uncertain until Penn came who fixed
Hughes and the of the State must not be under
stood suggesting any doubthness in the State of North
Carolina No State more fixed or forward. Nor do |
affirm positively that this paper is fabrication because
the proof of negative is only presumption; but shall
believe it to be such until positive and solemn proof of its
authenticity be produced And if the of Mcknitt
be real and part of the fabrication it needs vndi
cation by the production of such proof For the present.
must be an unbeliever in the apocrypha gospel
This is published not to vtate the claim of Neck
lenburg North Carolina its declaration Of independ-
ence but to show Mr. Jeersons first impressions of the
statement of that event