Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power (86 page)

“B
E
SO
GOOD
AS
TO
SAY
”
Ibid., 286.

“T
HE
TRANSACTION
OF
BUSINESS
”
Ibid., 379.

“H
E
HAD
A
R
AMBLING
,
VACANT
LOOK
”
Journal of William Maclay: United States Senator from Pennsylvania, 1789–1791
(New York, 1965), 272.

HE
WAS
“
LOFTY
AND
ERECT
”
TJF, http://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/physical-descriptions-jefferson (accessed 2011).

“H
IS
INFORMA
TION
WAS
EQUALLY
POL
ITE
”
TJF, http://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/jefferson-conversation (accessed 2011).

“W
HEN
THE
HOUR
O
F
DINNER
”
PTJ,
XX, 646–47.

“P
ERHAPS
T
HEIR
CONDUCT
”
Ibid., XVIII, 80.

“
WONDE
R
AND
MORTIFICATION
”
Ibid., XVI, 237.

“
FOR
THE
MOST
PART
”
Ibid.

T
HE
QUASI
-
REGAL
AIR
AROUND
THE
PRESIDEN
T
JHT,
II, 256–68.

ESSAYS
ENTITLED
D
ISCOURSES
ON
D
AVILA
PTJ, XVI, 238–39.

J
EFFERSON
ARRANGED
FOR
F
ENNO
TO
PUBLISH
Ibid., 238–41.

F
ENNO
BECAME
ENTIR
ELY
A
CREATURE
Ibid., 240–41.

“I
HAV
E
BUT
ONE
SYSTEM
OF
ETHICS
”
Ibid., 291.

A
LATE
SNOW
IN
N
EW
Y
ORK
Ibid., 405.

W
ASHINGTO
N
BECAME
SO
ILL
Ibid., 429. “On Monday last the President was taken with a peripneumony of threatening appearance,” Jefferson wrote Patsy on May 16, 1790. “Yesterday (which was the 5th day) he was thought by the physicians to be dying. However about 4 o'clock in the evening a copious sweat came on, his expectoration, which had been thin and ichorous, began to assume a well digested form, his articulation became distinct, and in the course of two hours it was evident he had gone through a favorable crisis. He continues mending today, and from total despair we are now in good hopes of him. Indeed he is thought quite safe.” (Ibid.)

A
F
ISHING
TRIP
OFF
S
ANDY
H
OOK
Ibid., 2.

WOULD
“
CARRY
OF
F
THE
REMAINS
”
Ibid., 475.

J
EFFE
RSON
RAN
INTO
A
LEXAND
ER
H
AMILTON
Ibid., XVII, 205–7.

B
ORN
IN
1755
Chernow,
Alexander Hamilton,
17. See ibid., 7–40, for details of Hamilton's early life.

ENROLLING
AT
K
ING
'
S
C
OLLEGE
Ibid., 41–61.

Q
UICK
WITH
HIS
PEN
Ibid., 58–61.

HE
BEC
AME
A
TOP
AIDE
Ibid., 85–129.

MARR
IED
INTO
A
POWERFUL
N
EW
Y
ORK
FAMILY
Ibid., 128–32.

A
DEL
EGATE
TO
THE
C
ONSTITU
TIONAL
C
ONVENTION
Ibid., 222–42.

SA
ID
TO
BE
“
AMAZINGLY
F
OND
”
Julian P. Boyd,
Number 7: Alexander Hamilton's Secret Attempts to Control American Foreign Policy
(Princeton, N.J., 1964), 23.

IN
A
SPEECH
Chernow, Alexander Hamilton, 233.

“T
HE
EYE
SETTLED
WITH
A
DEEPE
R
INTEREST
”
Randall,
Jefferson,
III, 336.

“H
IS
LO
OK
WAS
SOMBER
”
PTJ,
XVII, 205.

I
N
H
IS
R
EPORT
ON
THE
P
UBL
IC
C
REDIT
IN
EARLY
1790
Sharp,
American Politics in the Early Republic,
34–35.

BY
TARIFFS
ON
IMPORT
S
AND
EXCISE
TAXES
O
N
DISTILLED
SPIRITS
Ibid., 34.

F
UNDING
THE
DEBT
Ibid., 35.

S
HREWDER
SPECULATORS
, M
ADISON
TOLD
J
EFFERSON
Ibid.

T
HE
SECOND
ELEMENT
OF
H
AMILTON
'
S
PLAN
Ibid., 36.

INSTANTLY
DIVIDED
THE
NATION
Ibid. In Sharp's estimation, “Hamilton's assumption proposal threatened to destroy the newly organized government.” (Ibid.)

VOTE
D
DOWN
FEDERAL
ASSUM
PTION
Ibid.

H
E
ASKED
FOR
A
WORD
PTJ,
XVII, 205.

“I
T
WAS
A
RE
AL
FACT
”
Ibid., 206. Jefferson also said: “And … it has become probable that unless they can be reconciled by some plan of compromise, there will be no funding bill agreed to, our credit … will burst and vanish, and the states separate to take care everyone of itself.” (Ibid., XVI, 537.)

U
NLIKE
MANY
OF
HIS
FELLOW
V
IRGINIANS
Sharp,
American Politics in the Early Republic,
36. Sharp quoted “Light-Horse Harry” Lee on the subject. Lee said he “had rather myself submit to all the hazards of war and risk the loss of everything dear to me in life than to live under the rule of an … insolent northern majority.” One hope, Lee noted, was moving the capital to “the territorial center” of the country. (Ibid.)

T
HE
LOCATION
OF
THE
NATIONAL
CAPITAL
JHT,
II, 287–99, is a good account of the politics of the decision about the capital.

“T
HE
P
OTOMAC
STANDS
A
BAD
CHANCE
”
Ibid., 298.

HE
CONVENED
A
DINNER
Ibid., 301. “On considering the situation of things,” Jefferson said, “I thought the first step towards some conciliation of views would be to bring Mr. Madison and Col. Hamilton to a friendly discussion of the subject.” (Ibid., 298.)

“
MEN
OF
SOUND
HEADS
”
Ibid., 301.

“
THAT
IF
EVE
RYONE
RETAINS
”
PTJ,
XVI, 540. Sharp,
American Politics in the Early Republic,
37, described Jefferson's thinking as well.

M
A
DISON
AGREED
TO
EASE
HIS
OPPOSITION
JHT,
II, 301.

“
A
S
THE
PILL
WOULD
BE
A
BITTER
ONE
”
PTJ,
XVII, 207. “This is the real history of the assumption,” Jefferson said. (Ibid.)

“
THE
LEAST
BAD
OF
ALL
THE
TURNS
”
Ibid., XVI, 575.

“I
T
IS
MUCH
T
O
BE
WISHED
”
Ibid., VIII, 399. He added: “No man can have a natural right to enter on a calling by which it is at least ten to one he will ruin many better men than himself. Yet these are the actual links which hold us whether we will or no to Great Britain.” (Ibid.)

“E
VERY
H
UMAN
BEING
,
MY
DEAR
”
Ibid., XVII, 215.

“O
NE
PARTY
CHARGES
THE
C
ONGRESS
”
Ibid., XVIII, 131.

TWENTY
-
FOUR
·
MR. JEFFERSON IS GREATLY TOO DEMOCRATIC

“I
OWN
IT
IS
MY
OWN
OP
INION
”
PTJ,
XXII, 38.

N
OOTKA
S
OUND
,
A
DISTANT
INLET
ON
T
HE
WESTERN
COAST
JHT,
II, 310–14.

“
BEEN
AMONGST
SUCH
IN
SOLENT
BULLIES
”
PTJ,
XVI, 414.

J
EF
FERSON
FRETTED
ABOUT
A
SPRAWLING
WAR
JHT,
II, 310–11. Jefferson was cold-eyed about the threat. “I am so deeply impressed with the magnitude of the dangers which will attend our government if Louisiana and the Floridas be added to the British empire,” he wrote Washington in August 1790, “that in my opinion we ought to make ourselves parties in the
general war
expected to take place, should this be the only means of preventing the calamity.” (
PTJ,
XVII, 129.)

W
AR
, J
EFFERSON
SAID
PTJ,
XVII, 127.

ENCI
RCLEMENT
BY
THE
B
RITI
SH
JHT,
II, 310. See also
PTJ,
XVII, 138.

V
ICE
P
RESIDENT
A
DAMS
AGREED
PTJ,
XVII, 138. Adams wrote: “The consequences … on the general security and tranquility of the American confederation of having them in our rear, and on both our flanks, with their navy in front, are very obvious.” (Ibid.)

S
ECRETARY
OF
W
AR
K
NOX
BELIEVE
D
Ibid., 140.