I
should see my friends, too, more at our mutual ease, and be left more
exclusively to their society. However, I end as I began, by declaring
I have made up no opinion on the subject, and that I reserve it as a
question for future consideration and advice.
In the mean time, and at all times, I salute you with great respect and
esteem,
Th: Jefferson.
LETTER LIV.--TO GEORGE HAY, June 20, 1807
TO GEORGE HAY.
Washington, June 20, 1807.
Dear Sir,
Mr. Latrobe now comes on as a witness against Burr. His presence here
is with great inconvenience dispensed with, as one hundred and fifty
workmen require his constant directions on various public works of
pressing importance. I hope you will permit him to come away as soon as
possible. How far his testimony will be important as to the prisoner, I
know not; but I am desirous that those meetings of Yrujo with Burr and
his principal accomplices should come fully out, and judicially, as they
will establish the just complaints we have against his nation.
I did not see till last night the opinion of the Judge on the _subpoena
duces tecum_ against the President. Considering the question there as
_coram non judice_, I did not read his argument with much attention.
Yet I saw readily enough, that, as is usual, where an opinion is to be
supported, right or wrong, he dwells much on smaller objections, and
passes over those which are solid.
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