Original paper slip text:Printed: NYPL, Bull., 33:222 (April 1929), with an important accompanying note (g.v.) on JQA's preface to The Declaration of Independence ... (N.Y., 1833), transmitted with this letter. Letter first published in Washington National Republican, 4 March 1881, together with JQA's "Preface," which is an important (though anonymous) statement of JQA's views on the Union at the time of the Nullification crisis. See Bemis, JQA, 2:263–264.

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