[N^o 24] War department July 25. 1794 Sir I have received your letter of the 18 instant which has been submitted to the President of the United States. The information contained therein has a very important and unhappy affect — It seems as if Mankind were destined to be the sport of the cunning and ambitious and that happiness is too often sacrificed to misrepresentation and the gratification of the black passions. This information is too recently received to form any conjecture on the present moment of the probable consequences But no doubt can exist that those measures which are right and just will be adopted and executed. I wrote you by the last post that a supply of medicines would be forwarded — I am Sir with great esteem, Your most ob^t Servant Major Jonas being [signature] [undecipherable: probable reading] [undecipherable]