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JEFFERSON, Thomas. Autograph letter signed ("Th: Jefferson") as President, to Robert Smith (1757-1842), Monticello, 17 September 1802. 1 page, 4to, integral address leaf, franked in a secretarial hand.
JEFFERSON'S FEUD WITH ADAMS SPILLS OVER INTO THE COMPLETION AND "THE SAILING OF THE JOHN ADAMS"
"I have received a letter from mr Gallatin," Jefferson tells his Secretary of the Navy, "disapproving of the first order for the sailing of the John Adams on general grounds & also on the special ground that the appropriations for that object were exhausted. Further that mr Madison will be with me tomorrow and that I will then take the subject into consideration and give you the result by the post which leaves this [place] the 20th. You will receive it the 21st. In the meantime I would recommend that [he strikes out "the preparations be suspended &"] the vessel should not be moved from her present birth [sic]..."
Relations between Jefferson and his predecessor were broken and embittered because of Adams's midnight appointments that stocked the federal judiciary with Jeffersons' enemies. Jefferson had also objected to Adams's costly expansion of the military budget during the naval war with France. Here, he accomplishes his two key goals of governmental economy and scaling down the military. Jefferson reduced the Navy's frigates from six to three, and promptly sent those three to fight the Barbary pirates in the Mediterranean. The John Adams was taken out of dry dock in 1809, converted to a corvette, then converted back to a frigate and fought in the second Barbary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican War and the Civil War.
JEFFERSON'S FEUD WITH ADAMS SPILLS OVER INTO THE COMPLETION AND "THE SAILING OF THE JOHN ADAMS"
"I have received a letter from mr Gallatin," Jefferson tells his Secretary of the Navy, "disapproving of the first order for the sailing of the John Adams on general grounds & also on the special ground that the appropriations for that object were exhausted. Further that mr Madison will be with me tomorrow and that I will then take the subject into consideration and give you the result by the post which leaves this [place] the 20th. You will receive it the 21st. In the meantime I would recommend that [he strikes out "the preparations be suspended &"] the vessel should not be moved from her present birth [sic]..."
Relations between Jefferson and his predecessor were broken and embittered because of Adams's midnight appointments that stocked the federal judiciary with Jeffersons' enemies. Jefferson had also objected to Adams's costly expansion of the military budget during the naval war with France. Here, he accomplishes his two key goals of governmental economy and scaling down the military. Jefferson reduced the Navy's frigates from six to three, and promptly sent those three to fight the Barbary pirates in the Mediterranean. The John Adams was taken out of dry dock in 1809, converted to a corvette, then converted back to a frigate and fought in the second Barbary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican War and the Civil War.