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TO THE SECRETARY AT WAR (HENRY DEARBORN.) - Thomas Jefferson, The Works, vol. 11 (Correspondence and Papers 1808-1816) [1905]

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The Works of Thomas Jefferson, Federal Edition (New York and London, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1904-5). Vol. 11.

Part of: The Works of Thomas Jefferson, 12 vols.

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TO THE SECRETARY AT WAR

(HENRY DEARBORN.)

j. mss.

Monticello, August 9, 08

Dear Sir,

—Yours of July 27th is received. It confirms the accounts we receive from others that the infractions of the embargo in Maine & Massachusetts are open. I have removed Pope, of New Bedford, for worse than negligence. The collector of Sullivan is on the totter. The tories of Boston openly threaten insurrection if their importation of flour is stopped. The next post will stop it. I fear your Governor is not up to the tone of these parricides, and I hope, on the first symptom of an open opposition to the laws by force, you will fly to the scene and aid in suppressing any commotion.