Thomas Jefferson letter to Edward Rutledge [manuscript], 1796 December 27.

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Thomas Jefferson letter to Edward Rutledge [manuscript], 1796 December 27.

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Jefferson asks Rutledge for 20 bushels of cowpeas, gives instructions on shipping to Charles Johnston & Co., Richmond and payment through John Barnes of Philadelphia, and discusses improvements he has made on the Lieth machine for threshing wheat in Virginia and rice in South Carolina. Jefferson continues with a discussion of how much unmerited abuse and praise he has suffered in public service, his wish for retirement, the outcome of the election of 1796 which he knows Adams will win adding "I know well that no man will ever bring out of that office the reputation which carries him into it. the honeymoon would be as short in that case as in any other, & it's moment of extasy would be ransomed by years of torment & hatred." He predicts he will live in peace while Adams will be shipwrecked in the gathering storm, but nevertheless urges Rutledge to continue in national public office for "there is no bankrupt law in heaven by which you may get off with shillings in the pound, with rendering to a single state what you owed to the whole confederacy."

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University of Virginia. Library

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University of Virginia. Library

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Rutledge, Edward, 1749-1800

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Adams, John, 1735-1826

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Barnes, John

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Mellon, Paul

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