 | William Jay - Judges - 1833 - 542 pages
...and affectionately, yours." On this letter is the following endorsement in the governor's hand : " Proposing a measure for party purposes, which I think it would not become me to adopt." Mr. Jefferson was elected president by a majority of only nine votes, although he received twelve from... | |
 | Aaron Burr, Matthew Livingston Davis - New York (State) - 1837 - 470 pages
...Mr. Jay's biographer adds — " On this letter is the following endorsement in the governor's hand, Proposing a measure for party purposes which I think it would not become me to adopt." CHAPTER V. DURING the summer of 1800 General Hamilton prepared for the press his celebrated pamphlet,... | |
 | Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - American periodicals - 1838 - 546 pages
...another trophy to his enduring reputation, by the simple endorsement on the letter of these words : — "Proposing a measure for party purposes which I think it would not become me to adopt." We must not, however, leave this part of our subject without remarking, that though the letter to Governor... | |
 | 1840 - 448 pages
...good old this subject he wrote this short sentence; it speaks volumes for his disinterestedness,—" Proposing a measure for party purposes which I think it would not become me to adopt." To crown all, he was a devoted Christian, a man of piety and prayer. lie feared and loved God, and... | |
 | Jabez Delano Hammond - New York (State) - 1842 - 608 pages
...this pressing solicitation. On the back -of that letter will now be found the following endorsement. " Proposing a measure for party purposes, which I think it would not become me to adopt." In the history of man, amidst his follies, his vices, and his crimes, there are now and then green... | |
 | Jabez Delano Hammond - New York (State) - 1842 - 610 pages
...this pressing solicitation. On the back of that letter will now be found the following endorsement. " Proposing a measure for party purposes, which I think it would not become me to adopt." In the history of man, amidst his follies, his vices, and his crimes, there are now and then green... | |
 | John Stilwell Jenkins - New York (State) - 1846 - 564 pages
...the letter of Gen. Hamilton, afterwards found among his papers, he made the following endorsement : " Proposing a measure for party purposes, which I think it would not become me to adopt" ; thus adding another, to the many circumstances. which go to show, that throughout his whole public... | |
 | John Stilwell Jenkins - Governors - 1851 - 910 pages
...and upon the letter of Mr. Hamilton, afterwards found among his papers, he made this endorsement : " Proposing a measure for party purposes, which I think it would not become me to adopt."* This act was strictly in keeping with the character of Mr. Jay as a politician. Throughout his whole... | |
 | American essays - 1873 - 794 pages
...he folded Hamilton's letter and put it away among his most private papers, bearing this indorsement: "Proposing a measure for party purposes which I think it would not become me to adopt." Mr. Jefferson's attitude during this intensest of all known political struggles is an interesting study.... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - Presidents - 1858 - 732 pages
...Jay's manuscripts after his death, indorsed (says his son and biographer) in his own handwriting: " Proposing a measure for party purposes which I think it would not become me to adopt." 1 By the constitution of New York its political year commenced on the 1st of July. AVlien Hamilton... | |
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Proposing a measure for party purposes which I think it would not become me to adopt. 
