James Warren A.L.S., Milton, Nov. 16, 1783 : to Honble E. Gerry

James Warren A.L.S., Milton, Nov. 16, 1783 : to Honble E. Gerry

Milton, [Mass.] 1783

[4] p. ; 33 cm. (fol.)

MSS L1989.1.320

Docketed on verso: [Another?] letter / General Warren / Nov. 16 / 1783 / ansd. Decr 19th|Heartily congratulates Gerry "on the late determinations of Congress. They are the tryumph of patriotism & independence, & restore in my mind a great degree of that confidence I used to have in the virtue & good sense of that body."|"I have for some time supposed that if a stop was not put to the career of the aristocratic system before their success was carried much further, members of Congress must ... be considered with less respect than the clerks in their offices.... You must change the whole system."|"... I shall wish to see other measurers for safe & more effectual for paying not only the interest but the principal of the national debt adopted."|"The late sale of the frigates is a disgrace to the nation .... They were first fitted up at a great expense to the continent, & then sold to the person that had the direction for less than the fixing had cost ...."|"Mr. [John] Adams ... has been ill used. He has been thwarted & embarrassed in all his measures, but I think he will not bear much more of it. Mr. [John] Jay is a good man, & is certainly right with regard to the appointment to Britain. Mr. Adams is the most suitable man, and it is his right."|"If he [Adams] is jockeyed, he had rather any body should be the jockeys than Vergennes and Franklin."|"It is said & believed here that the definitive treaty was signed the beginning of September."|"I have taken the liberty to inclose two letters for Mr. Ellary and Mr. Howel [not present] requesting their influence in favour of my son ...."|Quoted in C. Harvey Gardiner. A study in dissent: The Warren-Gerry correspondence (1968), pp. 169-171. The letter was once, apparently, in the collection of Elise O. and Philip D. Sang.|The former president of the Provisional Congress of Massachusetts (husband of Mercy Otis Warren) writes to Elbridge Gerry, who was serving in the Continental Congress, about his disillusion with politics and the abatement of revolutionary fervor

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