Under this hope, I look forward to the general
adoption of the new constitution with anxiety, as necessary for us under
our present circumstances. I have so much trespassed on your patience
already, by the length of this letter, that I will add nothing further,
than those assurances of sincere esteem and attachment, with which I
have the honor to be, your Excellency's most obedient and most humble
servant,
Th: Jefferson.
LETTER CXXXIII.--TO JAMES MADISON, May 3,1788
TO JAMES MADISON.
Paris, May 3,1788.
Dear Sir,
Mine of February the 6th acknowledged the receipt of yours of December
the 9th and 20th; since that, those of February the 19th and 20th have
come to hand. The present will be delivered you by Mr. Warville, whom
you will find truly estimable, and a great enthusiast for liberty. His
writings will have shown you this.
For public news, I must refer you to my letters to Mr. Jay. Those
I wrote to him from Amsterdam will have informed you of my journey
thither. While there, I endeavored to get, as well as I could, into the
state of national credit there; for though I am an enemy to the using
our credit but under absolute necessity, yet the possessing a good
credit I consider as indispensable, in the present system of carrying on
war.
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