Adams Papers Digital Edition

Adams Family Correspondence, volume 10

John Adams to Abigail Adams

Abigail Adams to John Adams
John Adams to Abigail Adams, 9 June 1795 Adams, John Adams, Abigail
John Adams to Abigail Adams
My Dearest Friend Philadelphia June 9. 1795

The Senate are now in Possession of the Budget.— It is a Bone to gnaw for The Aristocrats as well as the Democrats: And while I am employed in attending the Digestion of it, I send you enclosed an Amusement which resembles it only in name.1

I can form no Judgment when the Proscess will be over. We must wait with Patience.

445

I dined yesterday in the Family Way with The President— He told me that the American Minister, at the Hague, had been very regular and intelligent in his Correspondence. The whole Family made the usual Inquiries concerning You and Sent you the usual Compliments.

Be very carefull, my dearest Friend, of what you Say, in that Circle and City. The Times are perilous.

J. A.

RC (Adams Papers); internal address: “Mrs A.”

 1.

Not found but presumably Part II of A Bone to Gnaw, for the Democrats, Phila., 1795, Evans, No. 28434, in which Peter Porcupine continues his excoriation of the Democrats: “Once more the snarling democratic crew / (To discontent and mischief ever prone) / Show us their fangs, and gums of crimson hue; / Once more, to stop their mouths, I hurl a bone.” For Part I, see JA to WSS, 17 Jan., and note 3, above.