The compensations to collectors depend on you, and not on me.

The army is undergoing a chaste reformation.

The navy will be reduced to the legal establishment by the last of this month.

Agencies in every department will be revised.

We shall push you to the uttermost in economizing.

A very early recommendation had been given to the Postmaster-General to employ no printer, foreigner, or revolutionary tory in any of his offices.  This department is still untouched.

The arrival of Mr. Gallatin, yesterday, completed the organization of our administration.

Accept assurances of my sincere esteem and high respect.

Th:  Jefferson.

LETTER CCLXXXVI.—­TO LEVI LINCOLN, July 11, 1801

TO LEVI LINCOLN.

Washington, July 11, 1801,

Dear Sir,

Your favor of the 15th came to hand on the 25th of June, and conveyed a great deal of that information which I am anxious to receive.  The consolidation of our fellow-citizens in general is the great object we ought to keep in view; and that being once obtained, while we associate with us in affairs, to a certain degree, the federal sect of republicans, we must strip of all the means of influence the Essex junto, and their associate monocrats in every part of the Union.  The former differ from us only in the shades of power to be given to the executive, being, with us, attached to republican government.  The latter wish to sap the republic by fraud, if they cannot destroy it by force, and to erect an English monarchy in its place; some of them (as Mr. Adams) thinking its corrupt parts should be cleansed away, others (as Hamilton) thinking that would make it an impracticable machine.  We are proceeding gradually in the regeneration of offices, and introducing republicans to some share in them.  I do not know that it will be pushed further than was settled before you went away, except as to Essex men.  I must ask you to make out a list of those in office in yours and the neighboring States, and to furnish me with it.  There is little of this spirit south of the Hudson.  I understand that Jackson is a very determined one, though in private life amiable and honorable.  But amiable monarchists are not safe subjects of republican confidence.  What will be the effect of his removal?  How should it be timed?  Who his successor?  What place can General Lyman properly occupy?  Our gradual reformations seem to produce good effects every where except in Connecticut.  Their late session of legislature has been more intolerant than all others.  We must meet them with equal intolerance.  When they will give a share in the State offices, they shall be replaced in a share of the General offices.  Till then we must follow their example.  Mr. Goodrich’s removal has produced a bitter remonstrance, with much personality against the two Bishops.  I am sincerely sorry to see the inflexibility of the federal spirit there, for I cannot believe they are all monarchists.