To John Adams from Benjamin Rush

20 June 1810

June 20th: 1810.

Wealth, respect and friendship! from your grateful and affectionate friend.

Benjn: Rush

War with the “great hammer of the whole earth” to use the words of which the prophet Jeremiah applied to the king of Babylon, is now the order of the day in Philada.—

MHi: Adams Papers.

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