Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power (103 page)

“
OBNOXI
OUS
PASSAGES
”
Ibid.

LAUGHE
D
THEM
OFF
Ibid. Patsy and Burwell, it was reported, ultimately “joined heartily in the merriment.” (Ibid.)

“M
Y
HEALT
H
HAS
ALWAYS
BEEN
”
PTJ,
XXXVI, 178.

“I
HAVE
SAID
AS
MUCH
”
Ibid.

T
HE
COMPLAINT
WAS
DIARRHEA
JHT,
IV 186.

A
“
DISEASE
CHARACTERIZED
BY
”
Robley Dunglison,
Medical Lexicon: A Dictionary of Medical Science
(Philadelphia, 1846), 244.

“M
RS
. E
PPES
IS
BEAUTIF
UL
”
Margaret Bayard Smith,
First Forty Years,
34.

“
GAVE
ME
AN
AC
COUNT
”
Ibid., 35.

“I
HAVE
ONLY
TI
ME
”
Mary Jefferson Eppes to John Wayles Eppes, November 25, 1802. Extract published at Papers of Thomas Jefferson Retirement Series Digital Archive, http://retirementseries.dataformat.com (accessed 2012).

“A
DIEU
ONCE
MORE
”
PTJ,
XXXIX, 309–10.

J
EFFERSON
SET
ABOUT
ACQUIRING
TJ to Martha Jefferson Randolph, May 6, 1805, Pierpont Morgan Library.

OBSERVED
THE
PRESIDE
NT
SITTING
Margaret Bayard Smith,
First Forty Years,
396.

“I
WILL
CATCH
YOU
”
PTJ,
XXXVIII, 111.

“I
HAVE
WR
OUGHT
”
Ibid., XVIII, 499–500.

SEEKING
CONGR
ESSIONAL
SEATS
TJ to Mary Jefferson Eppes, (RC [Gabriel Wells, New York City, 1946]; at foot of text: “Mrs. Eppes.” PrC (CSmH).

THIRTY
-
FIVE
·
THE AIR OF ENCHANTMENT!

“T
HE
NEWS
OF
THE
CESSION
”
Margaret Bayard Smith,
First Forty Years,
38.

“T
HE
FAME
OF
YOUR
PO
LITICAL
WISDOM
”
Horatio Gates to TJ, July 7, 1803, Thomas Jefferson Papers, LOC.

THE
T
HIRD
T
REATY
OF
S
AN
I
LDE
FONSO
See Walter Nugent,
Habits of Empire: A History of American Expansionism
(New York, 2008), 57.

GLORIOUS
EI
GHTEENTH
-
CENTURY
PAL
ACE
International Dictionary of Historic Places,
III, eds. Trudy Ring and Robert M. Salkin (Chicago, 1995), “La Granja de San Ildefonso (Segovia, Spain),” Elizabeth Brice, 300–3.

“
WORKS
MOST
SO
RELY
”
PTJ,
XXXVII, 264.

“I
AM
WILLING
T
O
HOPE
”
Joseph J. Ellis,
American Creation,
212–13.

“I
BELIEVE
T
HAT
THE
DESTINIES
”
PTJ,
XXXVII, 298.

“T
HERE
IS
ON
THE
GLOBE
ONE
SINGLE
S
POT
”
Ibid.

I
N
A
CONVERSATI
ON
“
OF
SOME
LENGTH
”
Edward Thornton to Lord Hawkesbury, March 6, 1802, FO 3/35, National Archives of the United Kingdom, Kew.

“
THE
OCCUPATION
OF
TH
IS
COUNTRY
”
Ibid.

“
THE
INE
VITABLE
CONSEQUENCES
”
Ibid.

“T
HE
DAY
THAT
F
RANCE
TAKES
POSSESSION
”
PTJ,
XXXVII, 264–66.

WILLING
TO
SHIFT
HIS
SYMPATHIES
Joseph J. Ellis,
American Creation,
213.

“F
RANC
E
PLACING
HERSELF
”
PTJ,
XXXVII, 264.

A
COPY
OF
A
SUBSEQUENT
TREATY
Nugent,
Habits of Empire,
57.

A
TUTORIAL
ON
THE
PRAC
TICALITIES
OF
POWER
PTJ,
XXXVII, 372–75.

“
A
MOST
IMPORTANT
PIECE
OF
POLITICAL
B
USINESS
”
Selected Letters of Dolley Payne Madison,
52.

“I
N
THIS
SI
TUATION
”
TJ to James Monroe, January 10, 1803, James Monroe Papers, LOC.

A
SNOWSTORM
AND
UNFAVORABLE
WIND
S
James Monroe to TJ, March 7, 1803, Thomas Jefferson Papers, LOC.

“I
HOPE
THE
F
RENCH
G
OVT
.”
Ibid.

A
DRAWING
ROOM
GATHERING
IN
P
ARIS
Robert R. Livingston to TJ, March 12, 1803, Thomas Jefferson Papers, LOC.

“W
HEN
THE
F
IRST
C
ONSUL
”
Ibid.

“Y
OU
MAY
EASILY
SURMISE
THE
SENSATION
”
Ibid.

“I
RENOUNCE
L
OUISIANA
”
Joseph J. Ellis,
American Creation,
220–21.

N
APOLEON
WAS
IN
HIS
BATH
Ibid.

“Y
OU
WILL
HAVE
NO
NEED
”
Ibid.

“T
HE
FIELD
OPEN
TO
US
”
Ibid.

H
E
AND
M
O
NROE
NEGOTIATED
A
TR
EATY
Jon Kukla,
A Wilderness So Immense: The Louisiana Purchase and the Destiny of America
(New York, 2004), 265–83.

W
ORD
REACHED
J
EFFERSON
Ibid., 285.

A
TREATY
WITH
F
RANCE
ON
A
PRIL
30
TJ to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., July 5, 1803, Thomas Jefferson Papers, LOC.

“I
T
IS
SOMETHING
LARGER
”
Ibid.

“T
HIS
REMOVES
F
ROM
US
”
Ibid.

“I
T
MUST
 … 
STRIKE
”
Horatio Gates to TJ, July 7, 1803, Thomas Jefferson Papers, LOC.

“E
VERY
FACE
”
Andrew Jackson to TJ, August 7, 1803, Thomas Jefferson Papers, LOC.

“T
HE
THING
IS
NEW
”
Arthur Campbell to TJ, January 17, 1804, Letters of Application and Recommendation, 1801–1809, General Records of the Department of State, National Archives.

HE
WROTE
M
ERIWETHER
L
EW
IS
TJ to Meriwether Lewis,
July 4, 1803, Clark Family Collection, Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis. Jefferson wrote:

In the journey which you are about to undertake for the discovery of the course and source of the Mississippi, and of the most convenient water communication from thence to the Pacific ocean, your party being small, it is to be expected that you will encounter considerable dangers from the Indian inhabitants. Should you escape those dangers and reach the Pacific ocean, you may find it imprudent to hazard a return the same way, and be forced to seek a passage round by sea, in such vessels as you may find on the Western coast. But you will be without money, without clothes, and other necessaries; as a sufficient supply cannot be carried with you from hence. Your resource in that case can only be in the credit of the U.S. for which purpose I hereby authorize you to draw on the Secretaries of State, of the Treasury, of War and of the Navy of the U.S. according as you may find your draughts will be most negotiable, for the purpose of obtaining money or necessaries for yourself and your men: and I solemnly pledge the faith of the United States that these draughts shall be paid punctually at the date they are made payable. I also ask of the Consuls, agents, merchants and citizens of any nation with which we have intercourse or amity to furnish you with those supplies which your necessities may call for, assuring them of honorable and prompt retribution. And our own Consuls in foreign parts where you may happen to be, are hereby instructed and required to be aiding and assisting to you in whatsoever may be necessary for procuring your return back to the United States. And to give more entire satisfaction and confidence to those who may be disposed to aid you, I, Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States of America, have written this letter of general credit for you with my own hand, and signed it with my name. (Ibid.)

J
EFFERSON
HAD
WRITTEN
DETAILED
INS
TRUCTIONS
Ronda,
Jefferson's West,
36–39.

FILLED
WITH
FESTIVE
CALLERS
Margaret Bayard Smith,
First Forty Years,
38–39.

“
ENLIVENED
TOO
B
Y
THE
PRESENCE
”
Ibid., 39.

“T
HE
FUTURE
INHABITANTS
”
TJ to John Breckinridge, August 12, 1803, Thomas Jefferson Papers, LOC.

“I
VERY
EARLY
SAW
”
TJ to Joseph Priestley, January 29, 1804, Thomas Jefferson Papers, LOC.

“H
AV
E
YOU
SEEN
THE
NEW
W
ORK
OF
M
ALTHUS
”
Ibid.

HAD
T
O
BE
RATIFIED
BY
S
UND
AY
, O
CTOBER
30, 1803
The Louisiana Historical Quarterly
, XXXI (New Orleans, 1948), 269.

“
GREAT
A
ND
WEIGHTY
MATTERS
”
Proclamation for Special Session of Congress, 1803, LOC: Broadside Collection, portfolio 227, no. 3.

REQUIRED
A
CONSTITUT
IONAL
AMENDMENT
PTJ,
XXXIX, 327–28. “There is no constitutional difficulty as to the acquisition of territory: and whether, when acquired, it may be taken into the union by the constitution as it now stands, will become a question of expediency,” Jefferson had written Gallatin in January 1803. “I think it will be safer not to permit the enlargement of the Union but by amendment of the constitution.” (Peterson,
Jefferson and the New Nation,
770.) Ibid.