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Transcriber's Note:
Inconsistent or incorrect accents and spelling in passages in French, Latin and Italian have been left unchanged.
Because of text width limitations, the table showing the geographical locations of the Indian confederacies had to be split into three sections. Accents in that table seem to indicate pronunciation.
Sidenotes representing original page numbers in "The Batture at New Orleans" have been moved before the paragraph at which they were placed to avoid breaking up the flow of the text.
[~c] is used to represent a c with an overbar.
The section starting ""Logan's family" has no closing quotation mark.
The section starting ""An act of" has no closing quotation mark.
Accents in table on page 337 volume 8 seem to indicate pronunciation.
The Table of Contents references a Special Message dated Mar. 21, 1804. The corresponding entry itself is dated Mar. 20.
Prevôté and vicomté should possibly not have accents.
Soree. Ral-bird should possibly be Sora. Rail-bird.
bueltas y tortuosidades should possibly be vueltas y tortuosidades.
Cypriores should possibly be Cypriéres.
Aligators should possibly be Alligators.
[Sidenote: 43*] is missing.
II. ends with an unfinished sentence, and an incomplete address. It has been left as printed
The dated sidenote "1778, Sept. 5." is out of order, and may be an error.
Text references indicated by (A.), (B.), (3.)...(7.) point to an Appendix to the Notes on Virginia.
The following possible inconsistencies/printer errors/archaic spellings/different names for different entities were pointed out by the proofers, and left as printed:
Chippewas and Chippawas
Muskingum and Muskinghum
Rappahanoc, Rappahannoc, Rappahànoc
Duponçeau and Duponceau
Pawtomac, Potomac, Potomak, Powtomac,
Pottawatomies, Powtawatamies, Powtewatamy
Monongalia, Monongahela
Mississippi, Missisipi
Miller, Millar
Maudan, Mandan
levee and levée
THE WRITINGS OF THOMAS JEFFERSON:
BEING HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY, CORRESPONDENCE, REPORTS, MESSAGES, ADDRESSES, AND OTHER WRITINGS, OFFICIAL AND PRIVATE.
PUBLISHED BY THE ORDER OF THE JOINT COMMITTEE OF CONGRESS ON THE LIBRARY, FROM THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS, DEPOSITED IN THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE.
WITH EXPLANATORY NOTES, TABLES OF CONTENTS, AND A COPIOUS INDEX TO EACH VOLUME, AS WELL AS A GENERAL INDEX TO THE WHOLE,
BY THE EDITOR H. A. WASHINGTON.
VOL. VIII.
NEW YORK: PUBLISHED BY RIKER, THORNE & CO. WASHINGTON, D.C.:--TAYLOR & MAURY. 1854.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1853, by TAYLOR & MAURY, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the District of Columbia.
EZRA N. GROSSMAN, PRINTER, 211 & 213 Centre st., N.Y.
CONTENTS TO VOL. VIII.
III. PART II. INAUGURAL ADDRESSES AND MESSAGES
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First Inaugural Address March 4, 1801 1
First Annual Message Dec. 8, 1801 6
Second Annual Message Dec. 15, 1802 15
Special Message Jan. 28, 1802 21
Special Message Feb. 24, 1803 22
Third Annual Message Oct. 17, 1803 23
Special Message Oct. 21, 1803 29
Special Message Nov. 4, 1803 30
Special Message Nov. 25, 1803 31
Special Message Dec. 5, 1803 31
Special Message Jan. 16, 1804 32
Special Message Mar. 21, 1804 33
Fourth Annual Message Nov. 8, 1804 34
Second Inaugural Address Mar. 4, 1805 40
Fifth Annual Message Dec. 3, 1805 46
Special Message Jan. 13, 1806 54
Special Message Jan. 17, 1806 57
Special Message Feb. 3, 1806 58
Special Message Feb. 19, 1806 59
Special Message Mar. 20, 1806 60
Special Message April 14, 1806 61
Sixth Annual Message Dec. 2, 1806 62
Special Message Dec. 3, 1806 70
Special Message Jan. 22, 1807 71
Special Message Jan. 28, 1807 78
Special Message Jan. 31, 1807 78
Special Message Feb. 10, 1807 79
Seventh Annual Message Oct. 27, 1807 82
Special Message Nov. 23, 1807 89
Special Message Dec. 18, 1807 89
Special Message Jan. 20, 1808 90
Special Message Jan. 30, 1808 93
Special Message Jan. 30, 1808 94
Special Message Feb. 2, 1808 95
Special Message Feb. 4, 1808 95
Special Message Feb. 9, 1808 96
Special Message Feb. 15, 1808 97
Special Message Feb. 19, 1808 97
Special Message Feb. 25, 1808 98
Special Message Mar. 7, 1808 99
Special Message Mar. 17, 1808 100
Special Message Mar. 18, 1808 101
Special Message Mar. 22, 1808 101
Eighth Annual Message Nov. 8, 1808 103
Special Message Dec. 30, 1808 111
Special Message Jan. 6, 1809 111
Appendix--Confidential Message recommending a Western Exploring Expedition Jan. 18, 1803 241
III. PART III. REPLIES TO PUBLIC ADDRESSES
To the Committee of the Danbury Baptist Association of Connecticut, 113.
To William Judd, 114.
To the Legislature of Tennessee, 115.
To the Legislature of Massachusetts, 116.
To the President of the Senate, and Speaker of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts, 117.
To Messrs. Thomas Ellicot and others, 118.
To Captain John Thomas, 119.
To Governor Smith, 120.
To the Legislature of Vermont, 121.
To the Legislature of New Jersey, 122.
To the Tammany Society of Washington City, 124.
To Messrs. Abner Walker and Bernard Todd, 124.
To the General Assembly of North Carolina, 125.
To the Society of Tammany of New York City, 127.
To the Democratic Republicans of Philadelphia, 128.
To the Legislature, Council, and House of Representatives of the Territory of New Orleans, 129.
To Governor Langdon, 131.
To Governor Langdon, 132.
To the Speaker of the House of Representatives of South Carolina, 133.
To the Inhabitants of Boston, Newburyport, and Providence, &c., 133.
To a Portion of the Citizens of Boston, 135.
To the Baltimore Baptist Association, 137.
To the Ketocton Baptist Association, 138.
To the Six Baptist Associations represented at Chesterfield, Virginia, 139.
To Taber Finch, 140.
To the Young Republicans of Petersburg and its vicinity, 141.
To the Methodist Episcopal Church at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 142.
To the Electors of the County of Ontario, New York, 143.
To the Citizens of the County and City of Philadelphia, 144.
To the Legislature of Georgia, 145.
To the Methodist Episcopal Church at New London, Connecticut, 147.
To the General Assembly of Virginia, 147.
To the Citizens of Wilmington and its vicinity, 149.
To John Gassaway, 150.
To the Republican Young Men of New London, 151.
To the Republicans of Loudon county, Virginia, 152.
To Governor Tompkins, 153.
To General James Robertson, 154.
To the Republicans of Niagara county, New York, 155.
To Captain Quin Morton, 156.
To the Tammany Society of Washington City, 156.
To the Citizens of Washington City, 157.
To the Republicans of Georgetown, 159.
To the Republican Merchants of Leesburg and its vicinity, 161.
To the Friends of the Administration in Bristol county, Rhode Island, 162.
To the Republican Delegates of Washington county, Pennsylvania, 163.
To the Citizens of Alleghany county, Maryland, 164.
To the Republican Citizens of Washington county, Maryland, 165.
To the President of the Ancient Plymouth Society of New London, 166.
To Governor Wright, 166.
To the Legislature of the State of New York, 166.
To the Republicans of Queen Ann's county, 168.
To the members of the Baptist Church of Buck Mountain in Albemarle, 168.
To Jonathan Low, 169.
To the Tammany Society of Baltimore. 170.
III. Part IV. INDIAN ADDRESSES
To Brother John Baptiste de Coigne, 179.
Speeches of John Baptiste de Coigne, Chief of the Wabash and Illinois Indians, and other Chiefs, 176.
To the Miamis, Powtewattamies, and Weeauks, 184.
To the Delaware and Shawanee nations, 186.
To Brother Handsome Lake, 187.
To Brothers, the Miamis and Delawares, 189.
To Brothers of the Choctaw nation, 192.
To my children, White-hairs, chiefs and warriors of the Osage nation, 195.
To the Chiefs of the Chickasaw Nation, Minghey, Mataha, and Tishohotana, 198.
To the Wolf, and people of the Mandar nation, 200.
To the Chiefs of the Osage nation, 203.
To the Chiefs of the Shawanee nation, 205.
To Kitchao Geboway, 208.
To the Chiefs of the Ottawas, Chippewas, Powtewattamies, Wyandots, and Senecas, of Sandusky, 210.
To the Chief of the Upper Cherokees, 213.
To Colonel Louis Cook and Jacob Francis of the St. Regis Indians, 215.
To the Delaware Chief, Captain Armstrong, 216.
To the Miamis, Powtewattamies, Delawares, and Chippewas, 217.
To Little Turtle, Chief of the Miamis, 218.
To Manchol, the great war chief of the Powtewattamies, 220.
To Beaver, the head warrior of the Delawares, 223.
To Captain Hendrick, the Delawares, Mohiccons, and Munries, 225.
To Kitchard Geboway, 228.
To the Deputies of the Cherokee Upper Towns, 228.
To the Deputies of the Cherokees of the Upper and Lower Towns, 230.
To the Chiefs of the Wyandots, Ottawas, Chippewas, Powtewattamies, and Shawanese, 232.
To the Chiefs of the Ottawas, Chippewas, Powtewattamies, Wyandots, and Shawanese, 238.
II. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF DISTINGUISHED MEN
1. Biographical sketch of Peyton Randolph, 477.
2. Biographical sketch of Meriwether Lewis, 480.
3. Biographical sketch of General Kosciusko, 494.
4. Anecdotes of Dr. Franklin, 497.