Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 to John Sullivan
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.03765 Author/Creator: Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 Place Written: New York, New York Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 19 January 1788 Pagination: 3 p. : docket ; 32.7 x 20 cm. Order a Copy
Transmits a letter from the Marquis de Lafayette delivered to Knox by the Count de [Moustier], a French Minister. Informs Sullivan, Governor of New Hampshire, that Lafayette wrote the letter "on the supposition of your being in this City and President of Congress." Discusses ratification of the Constitution: "The fact however is that the present system called the confederation has run down... something must be done speedily, or we shall soon be involved in all the horrors of anarchy, and separate state interests..." Notes that if Massachusetts and New Hampshire reject the Constitution, "we shall have to encounter a boisterous and uncertain Ocean of events."
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