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_A._ Most certainly I would not.

_J._ "How valiant you are!"

_A._ Aye, at this moment, and at all other moments of my life that I can recollect; but who can tell what will become of his bravery when his flesh and his heart shall fail him? Bolingbroke said "his philosophy was not sufficient to support him in his last hours." D'Alembert said: "Happy are they who have courage, but I have none." Voltaire, the greatest genius of them all, behaved like the greatest coward of them all at his death, as he had like the wisest fool of them all in his lifetime. Hume awkwardly affected to sport away all sober thoughts. Who can answer for his last feelings and reflections, especially as the priests are in possession of the custom of making them the greatest engines of their craft. _Procul est prophani!_

_J._ "How shall we, how can we estimate the real value of human life?"

_A._ I know not; I cannot weigh sensations and reflections, pleasures and pains, hopes and fears, in money-scales. But I can tell you how I have heard it estimated by philosophers. One of my old friends and clients, a mandamus counsellor against his will, a man of letters and virtues, without one vice that I ever knew or suspected, except garrulity, William Vassall, asserted to me, and strenuously maintained, that "_pleasure is no compensation for pain_." "An hundred years of the keenest delights of human life could not atone for one hour of bilious cholic that he had felt." The sublimity of this philosophy my dull genius could not reach. I was willing to state a fair account between pleasure and pain, and give credit for the balance, which I found very great in my favor.

Another philosopher, who, as we say, believed nothing, ridiculed the notion of a future state. One of the company asked, "Why are you an enemy to a future state? Are you weary of life? Do you detest existence?" "Weary of life? Detest existence?" said the philosopher. "No! I love life so well, and am so attached to existence, that to be sure of immortality, I would consent to be pitched about with forks by the devils, among flames of fire and brimstone, to all eternity."

I find no resources in my courage for this exalted philosophy. I had rather be blotted out.

_Il faut trancher cet mot!_ What is there in life to attach us to it but the hope of a future and a better? It is a cracker, a rocket, a fire-work at best.

I admire your navigation, and should like to sail with you, either in your bark, or in my own along side of yours. Hope with her gay ensigns displayed at the prow, fear with her hobgoblins behind the stern. Hope springs eternal, and hope is all that endures. Take away hope and what remains? What pleasure, I mean? Take away fear and what pain remains? Ninety-nine one hundredths of the pleasures and pains of life are nothing but hopes and fears.

All nations known in history or in travels, have hoped, believed and expected a future and a better state. The Maker of the Universe, the cause of all things, whether we call it _fate_, or _chance_, or God, has inspired this hope. If it is a _fraud_, we shall never know it. We shall never resent the imposition, be grateful for the illusion, nor grieve for the disappointment. We shall be no more. Credit Grimm, Diderot, Buffon, La Lande, Condorcet, D'Holbach, Frederick, Catharine; _non ego_. Arrogant as it may be, I shall take the liberty to pronounce them all _Idiologians_. Yet I would not persecute a hair of their heads. The world is wide enough for them and me.

Suppose the cause of the universe should reveal to all mankind at once a _certainty_ that they must all die within a century, and that death is an eternal extinction of all living powers, of all sensation and reflection. What would be the effect? Would there be one man, woman or child existing on this globe, twenty years hence? Would not every human being be a Madame Deffand, Voltaire's "Aveugle clairvoyante," all her lifetime regretting her existence, bewailing that she had ever been born, grieving that she had ever been dragged, without her consent, into being. Who would bear the gout, the stone, the cholic, for the sake of a _Boule de Savon_, when a pistol, a cord, a pond, or a phial of laudanum was at hand? What would men say to their Maker? Would they thank him? No; they would reproach him; they would curse him to his face. Voila!

A sillier letter than my last. For a wonder, I have filled a sheet, and a greater wonder, I have read fifteen volumes of Grimm. _Digito comesse labellum_. I hope to write you more upon this and other topics of your letter. I have read also a History of the Jesuits, in four volumes. Can you tell me the author, or anything of this work?

JOHN ADAMS TO THOMAS JEFFERSON.

QUINCY, May 6, 1816.

DEAR SIR,--Neither eyes, fingers or paper held out to despatch all the trifles I wished to write in my last letter.

In your favor of April 8th you "wonder for what good end the sensations of grief could be intended?" "You wish the Pathologists would tell us, what the use of grief in our economy, and of what good it is the cause proximate or remote." When I approach such questions as this, I consider myself, like one of those little eels in Vinaigre, or one of those animalcules in black or red paper, or in the horse-radish root, that bite our tongues so cruelly, reasoning upon the το παν. Of what use is this sting upon the tongue? Why might we not have the benefit of these stimulants, without the sting? Why might we not have the fragrance and beauty of the rose without the thorn?

In the first place, however, we know not the connection between pleasure and pain. They seem to be mechanical and inseparable. How can we conceive a strong passion, a sanguine hope suddenly disappointed, without producing pain, or grief? Swift at seventy, recollected the fish he had angled out of water when a boy, which broke loose from his hook; and said I feel the disappointment at this moment. A merchant places all his fortune and all his credit in a single India or China ship. She arrives at the vineyard with a cargo worth a million, in order. Sailing round a Cape for Boston, a sudden storm wrecks her--ship, cargo and crew, all lost. Is it possible that the merchant ruined, bankrupt, sent to prison by his creditors--his wife and children starving--should not grieve? Suppose a young couple, with every advantage of persons, fortunes and connections, on the point of indissoluble union. A flash of lightning, or any one of those millions of accidents which are allotted to humanity, proves fatal to one of the lovers. Is it possible that the other, and all the friends of both, should not grieve? It seems that grief, as a mere passion, must be in proportion to sensibility.

Did you ever see a portrait, or a statue of a great man, without perceiving strong traits of pain and anxiety? These furrows were all ploughed in the countenance, by grief. Our juridical oracle, Sir Edward Coke, thought that none were fit for legislators and magistrates, but "_sad men_" And who were these sad men? They were aged men, who had been tossed and buffeted in the vicissitudes of life--forced upon profound reflection by grief and disappointments--and taught to command their passions and prejudices.

But all this you will say is nothing to the purpose. It is only repeating and exemplifying a _fact_, which my question supposed to be well known, viz., the existence of grief; and is no answer to my question, "what are the uses of grief." This is very true, and you are very right; but may not the uses of grief be inferred, or at least suggested by such exemplifications of known facts? Grief compels the India merchant to think; to reflect upon the plans of his voyage. Have I not been rash, to trust my fortune, my family, my liberty, to the caprices of winds and waves in a single ship? I will never again give a loose to my imagination and avarice. It had been wiser and more honest to have traded on a smaller scale upon my own capital.

The desolated lover, and disappointed connections, are compelled by their grief to reflect on the vanity of human wishes and expectations; to learn the essential lesson of resignation; to review their own conduct towards the deceased; to correct any errors or faults in their future conduct towards their remaining friends, and towards all men; to recollect the virtues of the lost friend, and resolve to imitate them; his follies and vices if he had any, and resolve to avoid them.

Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens the understanding, and softens the heart; it compels them to arouse their reason, to assert its empire over their passions, propensities and prejudices; to elevate them to a superiority over all human events; to give them the _felicis annimi immota tranquilitatum_; in short, to make them stoics and Christians. After all, as grief is a pain, it stands in the predicament of all other evil, and the great question occurs, what is the origin, and what the final cause of evil. This perhaps is known only to omniscience. We poor mortals have nothing to do with it--but to fabricate all the good we can out of all inevitable evils--and to avoid all that are avoidable, and many such there are, among which are our own unnecessary apprehensions and imaginary fears. Though stoical apathy is impossible, yet patience, and resignation, and tranquillity may be acquired by consideration, in a great degree, very much for the happiness of life.

I have read Grimm, in fifteen volumes, of more than five hundred pages each. I will not say like uncle Toby, "You shall not die till you have read him." But you ought to read him, if possible. It is the most entertaining work I ever read. He appears exactly as you represent him. What is most remarkable of all is his impartiality. He spares no characters but Necker and Diderot. Voltaire, Buffon, D'Alembert, Helvetius, Rousseau, Marmontel, Condorcet, La Harpe, Beaumarchais, and all others, are lashed without ceremony. Their portraits as faithfully drawn as possible. It is a complete review of French literature and fine arts from 1753 to 1790. No politics. Criticisms very just. Anecdotes without number, and very merry. One ineffably ridiculous, I wish I could send you, but it is immeasurably long. D'Argens, a little out of health and shivering with the cold in Berlin, asked leave of the King to take a ride to Gascony, his native province. He was absent so long that Frederick concluded the air of the south of France was like to detain his friend; and as he wanted his society and services, he contrived a trick to bring him back. He fabricated a mandement in the name of the Archbishop of Aix, commanding all the faithful to seize the Marquis D'Argens, author of Ocellus, Timæus and Julian, works atheistical, deistical, heretical and impious in the highest degree. This mandement, composed in a style of ecclesiastical eloquence that never was exceeded by Pope, Jesuit, Inquisitor, or Sorbonite, he sent in print by a courier to D'Argens, who, frightened out of his wit, fled by cross roads out of France and back to Berlin, to the greater joy of the philosophical court; for the laugh of Europe, which they had raised at the expense of the learned Marquis.

I do not like the late resurrection of the Jesuits. They have a general now in Russia, in correspondence with the Jesuits in the United States, who are more numerous than everybody knows. Shall we not have swarms of them here? In as many shapes and disguises as ever a king of the Gypsies--Bamfield Morecarew himself, assumed? In the shape of printers, editors, writers, schoolmasters, &c. I have lately read Pascal's letters over again, and four volumes of the history of the Jesuits. If ever any congregation of men could merit eternal perdition on earth and in hell, according to these historians, though like Pascal true Catholics, it is this company Loyola. Our system, however, of religious liberty must afford them an asylum. But if they do not put the purity of our elections to a severe trial, it will be a wonder.

TO JOHN TAYLOR.

MONTICELLO, May 28, 1816.

DEAR SIR,--On my return from a long journey and considerable absence from home, I found here the copy of your "Enquiry into the principles of our government," which you had been so kind as to send me; and for which I pray you to accept my thanks. The difficulties of getting new works in our situation, inland and without a single bookstore, are such as had prevented my obtaining a copy before; and letters which had accumulated during my absence, and were calling for answers, have not yet permitted me to give to the whole a thorough reading; yet certain that you and I could not think differently on the fundamentals of rightful government, I was impatient, and availed myself of the intervals of repose from the writing table, to obtain a cursory idea of the body of the work.

I see in it much matter for profound reflection; much which should confirm our adhesion, in practice, to the good principles of our constitution, and fix our attention on what is yet to be made good. The sixth section on the good moral principles of our government, I found so interesting and replete with sound principles, as to postpone my letter-writing to its thorough perusal and consideration. Besides much other good matter, it settles unanswerably the right of instructing representatives, and their duty to obey. The system of banking we have both equally and ever reprobated. I contemplate it as a blot left in all our constitutions, which, if not covered, will end in their destruction, which is already hit by the gamblers in corruption, and is sweeping away in its progress the fortunes and morals of our citizens. Funding I consider as limited, rightfully, to a redemption of the debt within the lives of a majority of the generation contracting it; every generation coming equally, by the laws of the Creator of the world, to the free possession of the earth he made for their subsistence, unincumbered by their predecessors, who, like them, were but tenants for life. You have successfully and completely pulverized Mr. Adams' system of orders, and his opening the mantle of republicanism to every government of laws, whether consistent or not with natural right. Indeed, it must be acknowledged, that the term _republic_ is of very vague application in every language. Witness the self-styled republics of Holland, Switzerland, Genoa, Venice, Poland. Were I to assign to this term a precise and definite idea, I would say, purely and simply, it means a government by its citizens in mass, acting directly and personally, according to rules established by the majority; and that every other government is more or less republican, in proportion as it has in its composition more or less of this ingredient of the direct action of the citizens. Such a government is evidently restrained to very narrow limits of space and population. I doubt if it would be practicable beyond the extent of a New England township. The first shade from this pure element, which, like that of pure vital air, cannot sustain life of itself, would be where the powers of the government, being divided, should be exercised each by representatives chosen either _pro hac vice_, or for such short terms as should render secure the duty of expressing the will of their constituents. This I should consider as the nearest approach to a pure republic, which is practicable on a large scale of country or population. And we have examples of it in some of our State constitutions, which, if not poisoned by priest-craft, would prove its excellence over all mixtures with other elements; and, with only equal doses of poison, would still be the best. Other shades of republicanism may be found in other forms of government, where the executive, judiciary and legislative functions, and the different branches of the latter, are chosen by the people more or less directly, for longer terms of years, or for life, or made hereditary; or where there are mixtures of authorities, some dependent on, and others independent of the people. The further the departure from direct and constant control by the citizens, the less has the government of the ingredient of republicanism; evidently none where the authorities are hereditary, as in France, Venice, &c., or self-chosen, as in Holland; and little, where for life, in proportion as the life continues in being after the act of election.

The purest republican feature in the government of our own State, is the House of Representatives. The Senate is equally so the first year, less the second, and so on. The Executive still less, because not chosen by the people directly. The Judiciary seriously anti-republican, because for life; and the national arm wielded, as you observe, by military leaders, irresponsible but to themselves. Add to this the vicious constitution of our county courts (to whom the justice, the executive administration, the taxation, police, the military appointments of the county, and nearly all our daily concerns are confided), self-appointed, self-continued, holding their authorities for life, and with an impossibility of breaking in on the perpetual succession of any faction once possessed of the bench. They are in truth, the executive, the judiciary, and the military of their respective counties, and the sum of the counties makes the State. And add, also, that one half of our brethren who fight and pay taxes, are excluded, like Helots, from the rights of representation, as if society were instituted for the soil, and not for the men inhabiting it; or one half of these could dispose of the rights and the will of the other half, without their consent.

"What constitutes a State?
Not high-raised battlements, or labor'd mound,
Thick wall, or moated gate;
Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crown'd;
No: men, high minded men;
Men, who their duties know;
But know their rights; and knowing, dare maintain.
These constitute a State."

In the General Government, the House of Representatives is mainly republican; the Senate scarcely so at all, as not elected by the people directly, and so long secured even against those who do elect them; the Executive more republican than the Senate, from its shorter term, its election by the people, in practice, (for they vote for A only on an assurance that he will vote for B,) and because, _in practice also_, a principle of rotation seems to be in a course of establishment; the judiciary independent of the nation, their coercion by impeachment being found nugatory.

If, then, the control of the people over the organs of their government be the measure of its republicanism, and I confess I know no other measure, it must be agreed that our governments have much less of republicanism than ought to have been expected; in other words, that the people have less regular control over their agents, than their rights and their interests require. And this I ascribe, not to any want of republican dispositions in those who formed these constitutions, but to a submission of true principle to European authorities, to speculators on government, whose fears of the people have been inspired by the populace of their own great cities, and were unjustly entertained against the independent, the happy, and therefore orderly citizens of the United States. Much I apprehend that the golden moment is past for reforming these heresies. The functionaries of public power rarely strengthen in their dispositions to abridge it, and an unorganized call for timely amendment is not likely to prevail against an organized opposition to it. We are always told that things are going on well: why change them? "_Chi sta bene, non si muove_," said the Italian, "let him who stands well, stand still." This is true; and I verily believe they would go on well with us under an absolute monarch, while our present character remains, of order, industry and love of peace, and restrained, as he would be, by the proper spirit of the people. But it is while it remains such, we should provide against the consequences of its deterioration. And let us rest in the hope that it will yet be done, and spare ourselves the pain of evils which may never happen.

On this view of the import of the term _republic_, instead of saying, as has been said, "that it may mean anything or nothing," we may say with truth and meaning, that governments are more or less republican, as they have more or less of the element of popular election and control in their composition; and believing, as I do, that the mass of the citizens is the safest depository of their own rights, and especially, that the evils flowing from the duperies of the people, are less injurious than those from the egoism of their agents, I am a friend to that composition of government which has in it the most of this ingredient. And I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.

I salute you with constant friendship and respect.

INDEX TO VOL. VI.

ADAMS, JOHN--His friendly relations with Jefferson restored, 30,
31, 36, 125.
His political principles, 152, 162, 166, 208, 357, 473, 500.
Terrorism excited against him, 155.
His religious opinions, 150, 159, 168, 171, 172, 174, 204, 208,
251, 264, 325, 357, 473, 545, 599, 601.
Eighteenth and nineteenth centuries compared, 501, 545.
The French Encyclopedists, 555.
Different systems of philosophy, 556.
His views on aristocracy, 160, 222, 254, 360.

ALBEMARLE, COUNTY OF--Its climate, soil, and natural advantages, 431.

ALMANACS--Improvements in, suggested, 29.

ARISTOCRACY--Views on, 160, 222, 254, 360.

ASTRONOMY--Astronomical observations, 27, 28.

BANK, NATIONAL--Views of the one proposed in 1813, 228.

BANKS--Evil of the system of, 295, 300, 381, 434, 498, 515.
Jefferson's hostility to, 305, 381, 605.
Suspension of, in 1814, 381.
Number of, at different periods, 434.

BOLLANDISTS, THE--Their collection, 475, 489.

BONAPARTE--Views of his character and career, 283, 352, 358.
His fall, 352, 421.
His restoration, 458, 463, 480, 490.
His final abdication, 467, 490, 492, 553.
His feelings towards U. States, 464.

CANADA--Attack on, 130.

CAPITOL--Burnt by English, 383.

CARR, MR.--His character, 529.

CHARITIES--Principle on which should be dispensed, 44.

CHEMISTRY--The science of, 73.

CHESAPEAKE BAY--Defence of mouth of, 111, 123, 134, 561.

COLUMBUS--Portrait of, 343, 373.

COMMITTEES OF CORRESPONDENCE--Origin of, 527.

CONGRESS--Power of States to prescribe new qualifications for
members of, 309.

CONTRACTS--Law impairing obligation of, 461.

CURRENCY--Relative merits of paper and metallic currency, 231.

DEBT, PUBLIC--Evils of, 239.

ECLIPSE, Solar--16, 28.

ECONOMY, POLITICAL--New work on, 261.

EDINBURGH REVIEW--Merits of, 345.

EDUCATION--Views on, 355, 362, 510, 517.
System of common schools, 512.
General system of, 564.

ELOQUENCE--Specimens of, 346.

EMBARGO, THE--48, 50.

ENGLAND--Her maritime encroachments, 5.
Death of King of, 15.
Condition of, 33, 52.
Jefferson's sentiments towards, 53, 463.
Character of government of, 346, 468.
Social condition of, compared with that of U. States, 376.
Tendency to revolution in, 423.
Relations of with U. States, 467, 470.

EUROPE--Condition of, 114, 497, 503.
Relations with U. States, 114.
Moral condition of 18th and 19th centuries contrasted, 524.

EXPORTS--Why exempted from taxation, 483.

FEDERALISTS--Their opposition to the war, 63.

FINANCE--Views on, by Mr. Jefferson, 136, 194.

FRANCE--French revolution, 41, 162, 227, 421.
Restoration of Bourbons, 428, 499.
Her revolutions, 499, 507, 520.
Prospects of, 526.

GENERATIONS--Right of one to bind another, 138, 196.

GLEBES--Monies arising from sale of, 389.

GOVERNMENT--Principles of, 45.
Views on, 222, 413, 543, 589, 604.
Should be local, 543.
Definition of republican government, 605.

GRAMMAR--Views on, 184.

GRANGER, GIDEON--Relative to certain charges against, 329.

GRIEF--Its uses, 601.

GRIMM, BARON--His character, 576.

GUN-BOATS--133.

HARTFORD CONVENTION--425.

HEMP-BREAKER--New invention, 506.

HENRY--His mission to eastern States, 50.

HENRY, PATRICK--Early reminiscences of, 364, 368, 369.
Resolutions of, 1765, by, 366.
Case of Josiah Philips, 369.
His manners and habits, 487.

HISTORY, NATURAL--Systems of classification, 319.

HULL'S DEFEAT--101, 103.

IMPRESSMENT--420, 426, 428, 467.

INDIANS--The Wabash prophet, 49.
Traditions of, 59.
Their religion, 60, 147.
Civilization of, 62.
Origin of, 120, 146.
Our policy towards, 269.
Languages of, 529.

JEFFERSON, THOMAS--His bodily decay, 4, 519.
His devotion to agriculture, 6.
Efforts to extort money from, 9, 10.
His declining faculties, 107, 403.
His relations with Mr. Adams, 125.
Complains of publication of his letters, 282.
His views of merchants, priests, and lawyers, 334.
Made member of Agronomic Society of Bavaria, 363.
Tenders his library to Congress, 384, 387.
Resigns Presidency of Philosophical Society, 396, 397.
His feelings towards England, 449.
Estimate of his public services, 455.
Calumnies against, 465.
His estimate of life, 575.

JUDICIARY--Limits between powers of State and federal, 494.
Cannot bind legislature or executive by its decisions, 462.

KINGS--Character of European Kings, 271.

LA FAYETTE--His journal of his campaign in Virginia, 426.

LANGUAGE--Introduction of new words in, 185, 572.
Is progressive, 185, 572.

LAW, COMMON--Christianity no part of common law, 303, 311.
Interpolation on, 311.
How far binding, 65.
Works on, 291.

LEWIS AND CLARKE--Publication of their journal delayed, 270.
Journal of their western expedition, 595.

LINCOLN, LEVI--Declines seat on bench of Supreme Court, 8.

MANUFACTURES--Domestic, in U. States, 36, 69, 94, 472.
Growth of, during war, 430.
Mr. Jefferson's views on manufacturing system, 521, 553.

MEDICINE--Science of, 33, 105.

MINISTERS--Should not preach on politics, 445.

MONROE, JAMES--Made Secretary of War, 410.

MORALITY--Its basis, 348.

MORAL SENSE--The existence of, 349.

MOUNTAINS--Method of measuring the height of, 492, 510.

MULATTO--Who mulattos under our laws, 437.

NAPIER, LORD--His theorem, 335.

NAVY--Success of, 122, 211.

ORDERS IN COUNCIL--Repeal of, 78, 117.

ORLEANS, NEW--Case of the Batture, 42.
Battle of, 420.

ORTHOGRAPHY--Improvements in, 190.

PACIFIC OCEAN--American settlements on shore of, 55, 248.

PARTIES IN UNITED STATES--95, 96.
Original division of, 143.

PATENTS--When should be granted, 175, 181, 295, 297, 372.
How long should last, 180, 295.

PERPETUAL MOTION--83.

PHILIPS, JOSIAH--His case, 439.

PHILOSOPHY--The true, 531.
Of the ancients, 147, 277.

PLATO--His writings, 354, 360.

POISONS--164.

PORTRAITS--Of Columbus and Americus Vespucius, 343, 373.
Of Jefferson, 344.

PRESS--Corruption of, 285.
Censorship of, intolerable, 340.

PRESIDENT--Should be elected for four years, 213.

PRIVATEERING--Success of, 409.

RELIGION--Views of J. Adams on, 150, 159, 168, 171, 172, 174, 204,
208, 251, 264, 325, 357, 473, 545, 599, 601.
Views of Jefferson on, 191, 210, 217, 302, 305, 387, 519.
The Christian system, 217, 412.
Platonic Christianity, 354.
The Jewish creed, 577.
The character of Jesus, 593.

REVOLUTION--History of American, 489, 492.
Revolutionary men and documents, 249, 484.
Of South American States, 268, 274.
Reminiscences of, 364, 412, 484, 527.
Committees of correspondence, 527.

RITTENHOUSE, DR.--His character, 324.

RIVANNA RIVER--Navigation of, 514, 541.

RIVERS--Right to navigate, 541.

SAINTS--Lives of, 479.

SAY, M.--Contemplates emigrating to U. States, 405.

SCIENCE, POLITICAL--160.

SLAVERY--How to be abolished, 456.

SOUTH AMERICAN PROVINCES--Independence of, recognized, 550.

SPAIN--Her new constitution, 341.
Our relations with, 550.
Revolt of her South American colonies, 550.

STEAM-ENGINES--504.

SURVEYING--New method of platting, 338.

TAXATION--Principles of, 573.

TERRORISM--The era of, 155.

TEXAS--Included in the Louisiana purchase, 551.

THEOLOGICAL SOCIETIES--Should not be incorporated, 533.

TRACY, DESTUTT--His works, 109.
Prospectus of his works, 568.

TREATIES--With European nations, 453.
Power of Senate over, 557.

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA--Establishment of, 193, 371.
What chairs should be established, 389.
Organization of, 537.

UNITED STATES--Social condition of, compared with that of
England, 376.
Relations of, with Europe, 13, 430.
Survey and census of, 548.

VIRGINIA--Relative powers of Governor and Council, 38.
Aristocracy of, 225, 485.
New edition of notes on Virginia contemplated, but not executed,
403.
Invasion of, by Arnold and Cornwallis, 410.
Patrick Henry's resolutions, 485.
Height of her mountains, 496.
Survey of, 578.

WAR--With England inevitable, 51, 57, 91, 215.
Efforts to avoid, 215.
Declared against England, 67, 215.
Causes for which declared, 398, 481, 452, 470.
Benefits resulting from, 444, 452.
Popularity of, and means of maintaining, 70, 391, 394.
Progress and History of, 76, 81, 100, 128, 211, 275, 307,
385, 408, 418, 423, 438.
Opposition to, in N. England, 79, 213.
Defection of Massachusetts, 402, 414, 451.
Hull's surrender, 80, 83.
Financial arrangements to meet expenses of, 137, 391, 395,
406, 408, 419.
Prospects of termination of, 353.
Purposes for which waged, 391, 394, 403, 452.
Internal effects produced by, 399.
Peace declared, 420, 426, 428, 438, 450.
Successful termination of, 453, 466.
Upon what principles war is justifiable, 539.

WASHINGTON, GEN.--His political principles, 97.
Adams' view of his administration, 157.
A sketch of his character by Jefferson, 186.
Statue of, for North Carolina, 534.

WASHINGTON CITY--Attack on, by English, 424.

WEIGHTS AND MEASURES--Standard of, 11, 17, 26.

WILKINSON, GEN.--His relations with Mr. Jefferson, 34.