mislead us, by yielding to the solicitations of applicants. For this
reason your own spontaneous recommendation would be desirable. Now to
answer your particulars, _seriatim_.

Levees are done away.

The first communication to the nest Congress will be, like all
subsequent ones, by message, to which no answer will be expected.

The diplomatic establishment in Europe will be reduced to three
ministers.

The compensations to collectors depend on you, and not on me.

The army is undergoing a chaste reformation.

The navy will be reduced to the legal establishment by the last of this
month.

Agencies in every department will be revised.

We shall push you to the uttermost in economizing.

A very early recommendation had been given to the Postmaster-General
to employ no printer, foreigner, or revolutionary tory in any of his
offices. This department is still untouched.

The arrival of Mr. Gallatin, yesterday, completed the organization of
our administration.

Accept assurances of my sincere esteem and high respect.

Th: Jefferson.

LETTER CCLXXXVI.--TO LEVI LINCOLN, July 11, 1801

TO LEVI LINCOLN.

Washington, July 11, 1801,

Dear Sir,

Your favor of the 15th came to hand on the 25th of June, and conveyed
a great deal of that information which I am anxious to receive. The
consolidation of our fellow-citizens in general is the great object we
ought to keep in view; and that being once obtained, while we
associate with us in affairs, to a certain degree, the federal sect
of republicans, we must strip of all the means of influence the Essex
junto, and their associate monocrats in every part of the Union. The
former differ from us only in the shades of power to be given to the
executive, being, with us, attached to republican government. The latter
wish to sap the republic by fraud, if they cannot destroy it by force,
and to erect an English monarchy in its place; some of them (as Mr.
Adams) thinking its corrupt parts should be cleansed away, others (as
Hamilton) thinking that would make it an impracticable machine. We are
proceeding gradually in the regeneration of offices, and introducing
republicans to some share in them. I do not know that it will be pushed
further than was settled before you went away, except as to Essex men.
I must ask you to make out a list of those in office in yours and the
neighboring States, and to furnish me with it. There is little of
this spirit south of the Hudson. I