ALS, 1789 July 25 : Boston, to Elbridge Gerry.

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ALS, 1789 July 25 : Boston, to Elbridge Gerry.

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Sullivan, then justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Court, writes to Gerry: "I was never fond of having a vice President. It appears to me to be merely an Expedient to prevent an interegnum but the President of the senate for the time being might have answered the same purpose ... since there is such an officer in Government I think the Presidents salary is vastly too large as his Much too small It is not much more than the wages of your speaker and no ways in proportion to the rank the Constitution has given him, if the presidents is not too high.

4 p. ; 22.5 x 18 cm.

Copley Press, J S Copley Library

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Copley Press, J S Copley Library

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