8462. TOLERATION, Political.—
I feel
extraordinary gratification in addressing this
letter to you, with whom shades of difference
in political sentiment have not prevented the
interchange of good opinion, nor cut off the
friendly offices of society and good correspondence.
This political tolerance is the more
valued by me, who consider social harmony
as the first of human felicities, and the happiest
moments, those which are given to the
effusions of the heart.—
To Governor John Henry.
Ford ed., iii, 159.
(P.
1797)
