Papers of John Adams, volume 21
You will find enclosed your account, which I take the liberty to send, lest by not adverting to the state of it, some inconvenience might ensue.1
You are I presume aware, that Mr. Clinton is to be your Competitor at the next election. I trust
he could not have succeeded in any event, but the issue of his late election
will not help his cause. Alas! Alas!
If you have seen some of the last numbers of the National
Gazette, you will have perceived that the plot thickens & that something
very like a serious design to subvert the Government discloses itself.2 With sincere respect &
attachment I remain Dr sr / Yr. Obed ser
RC (Adams Papers); internal address: “The Vice President”;
endorsed: “Ansd. 4. Aug. 1792”; docketed by
JQA: “A. Hamilton 25. June 1792.”
Not found. For payment of JA’s salary, see his 16 Sept. 1795 letter to Oliver Wolcott Jr., and note 1, below.
A report in the Philadelphia National Gazette, 11 June 1792, condemned the U.S. government
for implementing the Whiskey Act while neglecting western farmers’
interests. Recommending a reduction in duties, the Gazette echoed calls for the law either to
“be totally repealed, or fully executed.” Subsequent issues of 18 and 21
June hammered in the critique, claiming that enforcement of the
legislation gave “the odious appearance of tyranny, first to load the
citizens with intolerable burdens, and then, under the sanction of law,
to harrass them into submission.”