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An address delivered before the Virginia Agricultural Society, of Fredericksburg, at the organization thereof, October 28, 1818, by James M. Garnett, Esq., president of the society.

Address from an officer in the late Continental Army.

[Address of Alexander Smyth to Freeholders of Congressional District 6]

To the electors of the congressional district composed of the counties of Washington, Wythe, Grayson ... : It would be a subject of regret, fellow citizens, should any thing that has been said or written, draw your attention ... Alexander Smyth.

To the public. I had hoped, most sincerely hoped, that I was done with newspaper controversies …

To the people. Fellow citizens; It was once a high crime, in this county, for a Republican to solicit your suffrages ... I have, for some time past, intended to explain the true meaning and effect of the amendments, which I proposed to a militia bill, in the Senate of the United States during the session before the last, and which have been much misunderstood and more misrepresented. ... Armistead T. Mason. Loudoun County, March 13, 1817.

To the electors of the congressional district composed of the counties of Washington, Wythe, Grayson, Tazewell, Russell, Scott and Lee] : Fellow citizens, when I first determined ... Benjamin Estill. Abingdon, March 18, 1817.

An address to the members of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in Virginia. By Bishop Madison.

To the freeholders of the district composed of the counties of Shenandoah, Rockingham, Pendleton, Bath, Rockbridge, and Augusta. We are informed, that the place of Senator, for our district, is now vacant … Chapman Johnson. Staunton, March 20th, 1810 … Staunton: Printed by Jacob D. Dietrick.

The convention of the delegates of eighteen counties of Virginia, held at Staunton, on the 21st of September, for the purpose of forming a general ticket of electors of president and vice-president, to the freeholders of Virginia. … Peace, union & commerce, and no foreign alliance … Robert Porterfield, Chairman Con. Attested by Wm. Noland, Sec'y Con.

An Address of members of the House of Representatives of the Congress of the United States, to their constituents, on the subject of the war with Great Britain

To the electors of the Congressional District composed of the counties of Stafford, King-George, Westmoreland, Richmond, Northumberland and Lancaster. Fellow-citizens: I declare myself a candidate for the honor of representing you in the next Congress ... Westmoreland County, October 28, 1816.

To His Excellency George Washington, Esq. President of the United States. September 30, 1796. Sir, We the inhabitants of the county of Berkeley in the Commonwealth of Virginia, having seen your paternal address to the people of the United States of the 17th instant, beg leave to approach you on this occasion, with every sentiment of regard, both for your public and private characters ...

An address delivered before the Agricultural Society of Albemarle, on Tuesday, May 12, 1818. By Mr. Madison, president of the Society.

To the freeholders of New Kent ... John B. Clopton. Roslin, New Kent, February 20, 1810.

To the freeholders of the Congressional district composed of the counties of Hanover, Henrico, New-Kent, Charles City, and the city of Richmond. Having offered myself to your consideration as a candidate to supply the vacancy occasioned in the representation of your district by the death of my lamented father, I deem it necessary to make a public avowal of my principles ... John B. Clopton. October 9th, 1816.

Address to the freeholders of Gloucester County, at their election of a member of Congress, to represent their district, and of their delegates, and a senator, to represent them in the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia, April 24, 1799, by John Page, of Rosewell.

Address of the Managers of the Bible Society of Virginia to the Public

Address of the managers of the Bible Society of Virginia to the public

To the freeholders of the congressional district composed of the counties of Caroline, Essex, King & Queen, and King William. … Robert S. Garnett, Washington City, Feb. 24, 1819.

To the freeholders of the congressional district composed of the counties of Caroline, Essex, King & Queen and King William. Fellow-citizens, Motives entirely independent of either a personal or political hostility to your late representative, have induced me to become a candidate for the honour of representing you in the next Congress. ... Robert S. Garnett. Essex County, March 20, 1817.

Address, of the carrier of the Virginia reformer, to his patrons : January 1st, 1820.

Address of the citizens of Greenbrier and Munroe counties, to the members of the Honourable Assembly of Virginia.

An address of the Congress to the inhabitants of the United States of America. Friends and countrymen, three years have now passed away since the commencement of the present war ...

To all the good people of Virginia. We His Majesty's faithful subjects, the Council of the colony, deeply impressed with the most sincere regard for the prosperity of our country, and the welfare of all its inhabitants, and being desirous, by our example, and by every means in our power, to preserve the peace and good order of the country, can no longer forbear to express our abhorrence and detestation of that licentious and ungovernable spirit that has gone forth, and misleads the once happy people of this country. ... Signed by order of the members of the Council, John Blair, C.C."

Address of the General Assembly to the people of the Commonwealth of Virginia: fellow citizens, unwilling to shrink from our representative responsibility...

At a Council held at the Palace May 2, 1775. Present, His Excellency the governor, Thomas Nelson, Richard Corbin ... The governor was pleased to address himself to the Board in the following manner ...

The address of the minority in the Virginia legislature to the people of that state; containing a vindication of the constitutionality of the Alien and Sedition laws.

Address of the minority of the legislatur[e] of Virginia, to their fellow citizens.

Mecklenburg, August 1, 1816. To the freeholders of the Congressional District of Brunswick, Lunenburg and Mecklenburg. The unfortunate death of our respected representative (Mr. [Thomas] Gholson) makes a fall election in this district necessary ... In making a tender of my services to represent you in the Congress ... Thomas M. Nelson.

To the people of the county of Accomack. Induced by the solicitations of a number of my respectable fellow-citizens, I have ventured to offer myself as a candidate for your suffrages at the ensuing election for delegates from the county of Accomack to the General Assembly of Virginia ... Thomas R. Joynes, Onancock, March 20, 1811

Fellow-citizens, 1 have been informed that reports unfavorable to my political sentiments have been industriously circulated ... William Buford, Jr. August 11th, 1808. Petersburg, Virginia,—J. Dickson, Printer.

Sir—The Congress of the U. States, closed its long and laborious session on the 20th of last month ... Wm. I. Lewis.

To Charles Hamand [sic], Noah Zane, and Geo. Miller, Esqs. Wheeling, (Va.) West Liberty, August 12th, 1809. Sirs, For a considerable time after the appearance of your handbill dated the 3rd of April last, I was fully determined to institute suits against you for slander; but on cool reflection, and mature deliberation, I became convinced that such was not the method best calculated to expose your errors and misrepresentations; this is the principal reason why you have not heard from me sooner. … You and your puppets may call me traitor, insurgent, foreigner, and threaten me with cowhides, etc. but taking truth for my guide, I am determined in my own way to do what appears to be my duty, Wm. McKinley

To the citizens of Augusta County. The undersigned feels it a duty he owes to himself and the gentlemen who have served with him, as Overseers of the Poor for the County of Augusta, since the year 1800, to expose the falsity of some reports which ... have been circulated respecting the money arising from the sale of the glebe lands in this county, with which it has been said the Overseers have for some years been speculating … William Patrick, one of the Overseers of the Poor for the County of Augusta. January 31, 1812.

To the freeholders of Louisa county. … March 3, 1808.

An address to the people of the United States on the importance of encouraging agriculture and domestic manufactures: tending to shew by a due encouragement of these essential interests, the nation will be rendered more respectable abroad and more prosperous at home. Together with an account of the improvements in sheep at Arlington, the native sheep of Smith's Island, and the plans proposed of extending this valuable race of animals for the benefit of the country at large. By George W. P. Custis. of Arlington House, in the District of Columbia.

To the freeholders and inhabitants of the counties of Botetourt and Montgomery. Gentlemen, Actuated by the same motives which first induced us to engage in your service, we now beg leave to call your attentions to a subject, to which, from your local situation ... you must hitherto have been strangers. We mean the state of our public debts. ... In order, gentlemen, to give you a more perfect idea of your proportion of the national debt ... and of your balances of taxes which are still due, we have subjoined the following concise table. ...

To the citizens of the District composed of the counties of Prince William, Loudoun and Fairfax. Having been appointed to notify to the District the determination which has been made to support a candidate for Congress …

To Doctor John K. Read. Sir, It might have been expected, that the experience which you have had, would have instilled into you some portion of wisdom ... You have been charged and tried for delivering in your official character, as an alderman of the borough of Norfolk, a man up to the British consul, by whom he was sent to the West Indies, tried, condemned and executed. ... Candidus. The author may be found on enquiry. Norfolk, June 22, 1803.

To the freeholders of Essex, Caroline, King-and-Queen, & King-William. As the important period of our elections is fast approaching ... a few remarks, illustrative of the principle upon which the right of suffrage ought always to be exercised. ...

To the freeholders of Essex, Caroline, King- and-Queen, & King William ... We the people.

[To the freeholders] of Prince William, Fairfax, Loudoun ... truth ... will not permit me to pass over in silence the imposition which was practised upon you at the late election for a representative to Congress ... [signed] Arthur Lee.

To the freeholders of Prince-William, Fairfax, Loudoun, Fauquier, Stafford and King George counties : my fellow citizens, in an address of Mr. A. Lee of the 16th instant ...

To the freeholders of the Congressional district composed of the counties of Spotsylvania, Orange, Louisa and Madison. Fellow citizens, In compliance with the wishes of some of the inhabitants of the district, I inform you of my intention to become a candidate for your suffrages at the election to be held in April next ... John Mercer, May 3d, 1806.

To the freeholders of the district of Fairfax, Loudoun, and Prince-William. As it is not improbable that Mr. Lee will inforce his address to his constituents by suggesting that his colleagues were informed of it, and would, if they had been able, have refuted its doctrines; it becomes the duty of those who have the means of information, and who have formed a different opinion of his conduct, to obviate such a belief – when their neglect is more properly to be ascribed to the employment of their stations, and a contempt for the attack.

To the citizens of Ohio County. We have lately seen a handbill which has for some rime been privately circulated among the friends of Mr. Jackson … Charles Hammond, Noah Zane, and George Miller. Monday April 3d, 1809.

Address to the freeholders of Ohio County, Virginia. Fellow citizens, at a meeting held at Hamit’s old place, on the 10th of Sept. last, it was resolved to support John G. Jackson ... for ... Congress ... Joseph Tomlinson, Thomas Evans, William McKinley. Wheeling, March 6, 1809. Printed by E. Pentland.

An address from Wilson C. Nicholas, a representative in Congress from Virginia, to his constituents. together with a speech delivered by him on the Bill to Interdict Commercial Intercourse with France, England, &c.

Address to the people of the United States with an epitome and vindication of the public life and character of Thomas Jefferson.