The Correspondence of Thomas Jefferson
By Subject
CONGRESS / SPEECHES
I observe that the H. of R. are sensible of the ill effects of the
long speeches in their house on their proceedings. But they have a
worse effect in the disgust they excite among the.. people, and the
disposition they are producing to transfer their confidence from the
legislature to the executive branch, which would soon sap our
Constitution. These speeches, therefore, are less and less read, and
if continued will cease to be read at all.
John Wayles Eppes, 17 January 1810
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