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Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
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President John Adams responds to Boston citizens' address, thanking them for approving his measures to conciliate France while maintaining U.S. dignity, and affirming national unity and resolve. Dated May 7, 1798, from Philadelphia.
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the United States to the Address of the citizens
of Boston, which appeared in this paper a few
days ago.
To the inhabitants and citizens of Boston.
GENTLEMEN,
I THANK you for the declaration of your ap-
probation of the measures adopted by me relative
to our foreign relations, to conciliate the French
Republic, and to accommodate all existing differen-
ces upon terms compatible with the safety, the in-
terest and the dignity of the United States.
Your high and elevated opinion of, and confi-
dence in the virtue, wisdom and patriotism of the
national government, and fixed resolution to sup-
port, at the risque of your lives and fortunes, such
measures as may be determined to be necessary to
promote and secure the honor and happiness of the
United States, do you honor, and are perfectly in
character.
It must however be a very unnatural and pecu-
liar state of things, to make it necessary or proper in.
you, or in any other American in your behalf, to de-
clare to the world what the world ought to have
known and acknowledged without hesitation, that you
are not humiliated under a colonial spirit of fear,
that you are not a divided people, in any point which
involves the honor, safety and essential rights of
your country, that you know your rights, and are
determined to support them.
(Signed) JOHN ADAMS.
Philadelphia, May 7, 1798.
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Boston
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May 7, 1798
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president adams affirms citizens' support for u.s. foreign policy measures toward france, emphasizing national unity and determination to uphold rights and dignity.
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President John Adams thanks the inhabitants and citizens of Boston for their approval of his measures to conciliate the French Republic and resolve differences compatibly with U.S. safety, interest, and dignity. He praises their confidence in the national government and resolve to support necessary measures, while noting the unnatural need to declare American unity and rejection of colonial fear.