War Is An Instrument Entirely Inefficient Toward

All The States But Our Own Are Sensible That Knowlege Is Power.

Without Virtue, Happiness Cannot Be.

Unmerited Abuse Wounds, While Unmerited Praise Has Not The Power To Heal.

Confidence Is Everywhere The Parent Of Despotism. Free Government Is Founded In Jealousy, And Not In Confidence.

We Defer Therefore Till This Time Twelve Month To Avail Ourselves Of The Instruction Of That Place, And Particularly Of Your Kindness In The Two Branches Of Botany And Natural History To Which We Wish Him Particularly To Apply.