People can never agree without some sacrifices; and it appears
but a moderate sacrifice in each party, to meet on this middle ground.
The attempt to bring this about might satisfy your instructions, and a
failure in it would justify your siding with the people, even to those
who think instructions are laws of conduct. Forgive me, my dear friend,
if my anxiety for you makes me talk of things I know nothing about.
You must not consider this as advice. I know you and myself too well
to presume to offer advice. Receive it merely as the expression of my
uneasiness, and the effusion of that sincere friendship, with which I
am, my dear Sir, yours affectionately,
Th: Jefferson.
LETTER CXCVII.--TO WILLIAM CARMICHAEL, May 8, 1789
TO WILLIAM CARMICHAEL.
Paris, May 8, 1789.
Dear Sir,
Your favor of January the 26th, to March the 27th, is duly received, and
I thank you for the interesting papers it contained. The answer of
Don Ulloa, however, on the subject of the canal through the American
isthmus, was not among them, though mentioned to be so. If you have
omitted it through accident, I shall thank you for it at some future
occasion, as I wish much to understand that subject thoroughly.
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