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THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
JEFFERSON, Thomas. Autograph letter signed ("Th: Jefferson"), as former President, to Messrs. Joseph Johnson, John White, William Lance, Joseph Kirkland & Myer Moses, Monticello, 30 September 1811. 1 page, 4to, remnants of tipping along left edge, small closed tear along lower portion of center crease, pencil dockets in a later hand on verso.
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JEFFERSON, Thomas. Autograph letter signed ("Th: Jefferson"), as former President, to Messrs. Joseph Johnson, John White, William Lance, Joseph Kirkland & Myer Moses, Monticello, 30 September 1811. 1 page, 4to, remnants of tipping along left edge, small closed tear along lower portion of center crease, pencil dockets in a later hand on verso.
"THE SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT FOR WHICH WE HAVE LABORED WILL CONTINUE TO BE CHERISHED AND IMPROVED BY THOSE WHO COME AFTER US"
Jefferson thanks the members of Charleston, South Carolina's Seventy-six Association for forwarding a July 4 oration delivered by Benjamin A. Markley. "I am very sensible," Jefferson writes, "of the attentions with which the Seventy six association has honored me in directing the transmission of this pamphlet and equally thankful to yourselves for your care in the execution of their desire. Sentiments so patriotic, & so eloquently expressed by the Orator cannot fail to be pleasing to those retiring from public affairs, and to strengthen their confidence that the system of government for which we have labored will continue to be cherished and improved by those who come after us..." The Seventy-six Association was a patriotic group, dedicated to preserving the memory and advancing the principles of the Revolutionary generation. In the early 1830s, it merged with The Revolutionary Society to become the Whig Association, an anti-Jackson, States' rights and pro-nullification group. The 76 Association re-emerged in the sectional battles of the 1850s as a pro-slavery, secessionist group. Jefferson, of course, was an important intellectual forbear for this movement, owing to his authorship of the Kentucky Resolution of 1799, endorsing the idea of State nullification.
"THE SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT FOR WHICH WE HAVE LABORED WILL CONTINUE TO BE CHERISHED AND IMPROVED BY THOSE WHO COME AFTER US"
Jefferson thanks the members of Charleston, South Carolina's Seventy-six Association for forwarding a July 4 oration delivered by Benjamin A. Markley. "I am very sensible," Jefferson writes, "of the attentions with which the Seventy six association has honored me in directing the transmission of this pamphlet and equally thankful to yourselves for your care in the execution of their desire. Sentiments so patriotic, & so eloquently expressed by the Orator cannot fail to be pleasing to those retiring from public affairs, and to strengthen their confidence that the system of government for which we have labored will continue to be cherished and improved by those who come after us..." The Seventy-six Association was a patriotic group, dedicated to preserving the memory and advancing the principles of the Revolutionary generation. In the early 1830s, it merged with The Revolutionary Society to become the Whig Association, an anti-Jackson, States' rights and pro-nullification group. The 76 Association re-emerged in the sectional battles of the 1850s as a pro-slavery, secessionist group. Jefferson, of course, was an important intellectual forbear for this movement, owing to his authorship of the Kentucky Resolution of 1799, endorsing the idea of State nullification.