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Show Would Ride Only in Stage In the year 1793 John Adams, Vice President of the United States, sent a letter home, from Philadelphia, Philadel-phia, beginning, "My dear, your letter let-ter from your sick chamber, if not from your sick bed, has made me so uneasy that I must get away as soon as possible. Monday morning at 6 I am to set off in the stage. I don't believe Abby (his daughter) will go with me. Her husband is so proud of his wealth that he would not let her go, 1 suppose, without a coach-and-four; and such monarch-ial monarch-ial trumpery I will in future have nothing to do with. 1 will never travel but by stage, nor live at the j seat of Government, but at lodgings, while they give me so despicable an allowance. Shiver my jib and start my planks if I do!" |