OCTOBER 20, 1792
To SIR' EDWARD NEWENHAM
Philadelphia, October 20, 1792.
Dear Sir: Where your Letter of the 21st of December last has
been travelling since it left you, I cannot tell; but it did not get
to my hands till within a few weeks past; when I likewise received
your's of the 15th. of July, introducing Mr. Anderson. I was sorry to
see the gloomy picture which you drew of the affairs of your Country
in your letter of December; but I hope events have not turned out so
badly as you then apprehended. Of all the animosities which have
existed among mankind, those which are caused by a difference of
sentiments in religion appear to be the most inveterate and
distressing, and ought most to be deprecated. I was in hopes, that the
enlightened and liberal policy, which has marked the present age,
would at least have reconciled Christians of every denomination so
far, that we should never again see their religious disputes carried
to such a pitch as to endanger the peace of Society.
The Affairs of this Country still wear a prosperous aspect. Our
Agriculture, Commerce and navigation are in a flourishing state. In
some parts of the Country the crops of Indian corn (maize) have been
injured by the drought in summer, and early frosts in autumn. We have,
however, a happiness, which is scarcely in any other Country; for such
is the extent of the
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U. S. and so great a variety of climate and soil do they embrace, that
we never need apprehend a universal failure of our crops, and a
consequent famine.
I have spent part of the summer at Mount Vernon, and have but
just returned to the seat of Government, where I am so much engaged in
attending to business, which has accumulated during my absence, and in
preparing such business as will be necessary to lay before the
Legislature at their meeting early in next month, that I have but
little time to attend to any affairs of a private or personal nature;
I am therefore persuaded, that you will to these impute causes the
shortness of this letter. Mrs. Washington unites with me in respects
and best wishes for Lady Newenham and yourself. I am &c. 4
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respecting an establishment of religion" by syllogistic reasoning. Words
take their meaning from social as well as textual contexts, which is why "a
page of history is worth a volume of logic." New York Trust Co. v. Eisner,
256 U.S. 345, 349, 41 S.Ct. 506, 507, 65 L.Ed. 963 (1921) (Holmes, J.).
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