His race is not yet worn out. And so endeth the book of
Kings, from all of whom the Lord deliver us and have you, my friend, and
all such good men and true, in his holy keeping.
Th: Jefferson.
LETTER XCI.--TO GENERAL DEARBORN, July 16,1810
TO GENERAL DEARBORN.
Monticello, July 16,1810.
Dear General and Friend,
Your favor of May the 31st was duly received, and I join in
congratulations with you on the resurrection of republican principles
in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, and the hope that the professors of
these principles will not again easily be driven off their ground. The
federalists, during their short-lived ascendancy, have, nevertheless,
by forcing us from the embargo, inflicted a wound on our interests which
can never be cured, and on our affections which will require time to
cicatrize. I ascribe all this to one pseudo-republican, Story. He came
on (in place of Crowningshield, I believe) and staid only a few days;
long enough, however, to get complete hold of Bacon, who giving in to
his representations, became panic-struck, and communicated his panic to
his colleagues, and they to a majority of the sound members of Congress.
They believed in the alternative of repeal or civil war, and produced
the fatal measure of repeal. This is the immediate parent of all our
present evils, and has reduced us to a low standing in the eyes of the
world. I should think that even the federalists themselves must now be
made, by their feelings, sensible of their error.
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