The gazettes of Leyden and France to this
date, accompany this. I have the honor to be, with sentiments of the
most perfect esteem and respect, Sir, your most obedient and most humble
servant,
Th: Jefferson.
LETTER CLXXVIII.--TO JAMES MADISON, January 12, 1789
TO JAMES MADISON.
Paris, January 12, 1789.
Dear Sir,
My last to you was of the 18th of November; since which, I have received
yours of the 21st of September, and October the 8th, with the pamphlet
on the Mohicon language, for which, receive my thanks. I endeavor to
collect all the vocabularies I can of the American Indians, as of those
of Asia, persuaded, that if they ever had a common parentage, it will
appear in their languages.
I was pleased to see the vote of Congress, of September the 16th, on the
subject of the Mississippi, as I had before seen, with great uneasiness,
the pursuit of other principles, which I could never reconcile to my
own ideas of probity or wisdom, and from which, and my knowledge of the
character of our western settlers, I saw that the loss of that country
was a necessary consequence.
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