Wednesday, May 20, 2020

So far well

We have been thrown into times of a peculiar character, and to work our way through them has required services & sacrifices from our countrymen generally, and, to their great honor, these have been generally exhibited, by every one in his sphere & according to the opportunities afforded.  With them I have been a fellow laborer, endeavoring to do faithfully the part allotted to me, as they did theirs; & it is a subject of mutual congratulation that, in a state of things, such as the world has never before seen, we have gotten on so far well. . . 
                         Thomas Jefferson in a letter to James Fishback, September 27, 1809



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