and
those wishing to be permitted to take the chance of gain. To give me, in
short, that permission which you often allow to others for purposes not
more moral.

Will it be objected, that although not evil in itself, it may, as a
precedent, lead to evil? But let those who shall quote the precedent
bring their case within the same measure. Have they, as in this case,
devoted three-score years and one of their lives, uninterruptedly, to
the service of their country? Have the times of those services been as
trying as those which have embraced our Revolution, our transition from
a colonial to a free structure of government? Have the stations of their
trial been of equal importance? Has the share they have borne in holding
their new government to its genuine principles, been equally marked?
And has the cause of the distress, against which they seek a remedy,
proceeded, not merely from themselves, but from errors of the public
authorities, disordering the circulating medium, over which they had
no control, and which have, in fact, doubled and trebled debts, by
reducing, in that proportion, the value of the property which was to pay
them? If all these circumstances, which characterize the present case,
have taken place in theirs also, then follow the precedent. Be assured,
the cases will be so rare as to produce no embarrassment, as never to
settle into an injurious habit. The single feature of a sixty years'
service, as no other instance of it has yet occurred in our country, so
it probably never may again. And should it occur, even once and again,
it will not impoverish your treasury, as it takes nothing from that, and
asks but a simple permission, by an act of natural right, to do one of
moral justice.

In the 'Thoughts on Lotteries,' the following paper is referred to. It
is here copied to spare the trouble of seeking for the-book.

_Farewell Address To Th: Jefferson, President Of The United States_.

[Agreed to by both Houses, February 7, 1809.]

Sir, The General Assembly of your native State cannot close their
session, without acknowledging your services in the office which you are
just about to lay down, and bidding you a respectful and affectionate
farewell.

We have to thank you for the model of an administration conducted on
the purest principles of republicanism; for pomp and state laid aside;
patronage discarded; internal taxes abolished; a host of superfluous
officers disbanded; the monarchic maxim that