our right to refuse co-operation in any case of treaty, I should
wonder on what occasion it is to be used, if not in one where the
rights, the interest, the honor, and faith of our nation are so grossly
sacrificed; where a faction has entered into a conspiracy with the
enemies of their country to chain down the legislature at the feet of
both; where the whole mass of your constituents have condemned this work
in the most unequivocal manner, and are looking to you as their last
hope to save them from the effects of the avarice and corruption of
the first agent, the revolutionary machinations of others, and the
incomprehensible acquiescence of the only honest man who has assented to
it. I wish that his honesty and his political errors may not furnish a
second occasion to exclaim, 'Curse on his virtues, they have undone his
country.' Cold weather, mercury at twenty degrees in the morning. Corn
fallen at Richmond to twenty shillings; stationary here. Nicholas sure
of his election, R. Jouett and Jo. Monroe in competition for the other
vote of the county. Affection to Mrs. M. and yourself. Adieu.

Th: Jefferson.

LETTER CXCIII.--TO JAMES MADISON, April 19, 1796

TO JAMES MADISON.

Monticello, April 19, 1796.

Dear Sir,

Yours of the 4th instant came to hand the day before yesterday. I have
turned to the Conventional history, and enclose you an exact copy of
what is there on the subject you mentioned. I have also turned to my own
papers, and send you some things extracted from them, which show
that the recollection of the President has not been accurate, when he
supposed his own opinion to have been uniformly that declared in his
answer of March the 30th. The records of the Senate will vouch for this.
My respects to Mrs. Madison. Adieu affectionately.

Th: Jefferson.

[The papers referred to in the preceding.]

_Extract, verbatim, from last page but one and the last page_.

'Mr. King suggested that the journals of the Convention should be either
destroyed, or deposited in the custody of the President. He thought, if
suffered to be made public, a bad use would be made of them by those who
would wish to prevent the adoption of the constitution.

'Mr. Wilson preferred the second expedient. He had at one time liked the
first best: but as false suggestions may be propagated, it should not be
made impossible to contradict them.

'A question was then put on depositing the journals and other papers of
the Con