JUNE 22, 1792
To SIR' EDWARD NEWENHAM
Philadelphia, June 22, 1792.
Dr. Sir: I have now before me your letters of the 9 of January
and 12 of February to which it will not be in my power to reply so
fully as my inclination would lead me to do if I had no avocation but
those of a personal nature.
I regret exceedingly that the disputes between the protestants
and Roman Catholics should be carried to the serious alarming height
mentioned in your letters. Religious controversies are always
productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those
which spring from any other cause; and I was not without hopes that
the enlightened and liberal policy of the present age would have put
an effectual stop to contentions of this kind.
The present appears to be an eventful moment in Europe. The
declaration of War by France against the King of Hungary will probably
soon discover what part the several Nations in Europe will take; but
when or where these agitations which now shake that quarter of the
globe will terminate is beyond the Ken of human wisdom.
Notwithstanding our local situation and political circumstances guard
us against an interference in the contests between the European
powers; yet we cannot be indifferent as to the issue of a business in
which the happiness of so many millions of our fellow citizens is
involved. We have had nothing from France since the declaration of
War, but are waiting with no small degree of anxiety for furtheir
intelligence which may enable us to form some conjecture on this
momentous business.
I am happy in being able to inform you that the affairs of this
Country are still going on in a prosperous train. The harvest through
the several States, so far as I have been able to
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extend my enquiries, promises to be abundant for the quantity sown;
and it is said by those who are well acquainted with the subject, that
there has never been a year in which so much land has been cultivated
in grain, particularly wheat, as in the present. I paid a visit to
Mount Vernon immediately on the rising of Congress, and was much
pleased to find the appearance of crops of my own farms much more
flattering than I had known them for many years past, and the Country
generally exhibited the face of plenty. An insect called the Hessian
Fly, has made it's appearance and done some mischief in parts of this
State, Delaware and Maryland; but the destruction occasioned by this
enemy will bear but a very trifling proportion to the whole crop of
the Country, and I am informed that it's ravages where it has been
found this year, are far less than those committed by the same insect
some years ago. An investigation of the natural history and progress
of this insect is now taking place in order to see if some effectual
measures cannot be fallen upon to prevent it's devastations. As it is
a subject deeply interesting to every individual in the community I
flatter myself that such enquiries and communications will be made
respecting it as will lead to it's extirpation.
Mrs. Washington unites with me in sincere wishes for the health
and happiness of Lady Newenham and yourself. I am etc. 45
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The Rise of the Theocratic States of America
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take their meaning from social as well as textual contexts, which is why "a
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256 U.S. 345, 349, 41 S.Ct. 506, 507, 65 L.Ed. 963 (1921) (Holmes, J.).
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