Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power (91 page)

“I
THINK
IT
IS
M
ONTAIG
NE
”
PTJ,
XXVIII, 15. Despite his protestations, he remained in touch with the times. Acknowledging his obsession with the Hamilton-congressional axis, Jefferson said: “I indulge myself on one political topic only, that is, in disclosing to my countrymen the shameless corruption of a portion of the representatives in the 1st and 2nd Congresses and their implicit devotion to the treasury. I think I do good in this, because it may produce exertions to reform the evil on the success of which the form of the government is to depend.” (Ibid., 15–16.)

“I
COULD
NOT
HAVE
SUPPOSED
”
Ibid., 21–22.

“I
CONGRATU
LATE
YOU
”
Ibid., 50.

“I
NSTEAD
OF
WRITING
”
Ibid., 57.

“M
Y
COUNTRY
MEN
ARE
GROANING
”
Ibid.

MI
GHT
SOON
“
GET
OUT
”
Ibid., 72.

DI
SPATCHED
J
OHN
J
AY
Ibid., 69–71.

“
MA
Y
EXTRICATE
US
FROM
”
Ibid., 75.

“T
HE
SPIRIT
OF
WAR
”
Ibid., 55.

HE
DECIDED
TO
PULL
DO
WN
JHT,
III, 221–22, details the story of the two Monticellos.

“W
E
ARE
NOW
LIVI
NG
”
PTJ,
XXVIII, 181.

“H
E
IS
A
VERY
LO
NG
TIME
”
JHT,
III, 221.

“A
RCHITECTU
RE
IS
MY
DELIGHT
”
Ibid., 222.

TH
E
TERRACES
AND
DEPEN
DENCIES
TJF, http://www.monticello.org/site/plantation-and-slavery/overview-mulberry-row (accessed 2012).

NEW
SLAVE
Q
UARTERS
,
A
SMOKEHOUSE
,
AND
A
DAIRY
Ibid.

A
NAIL
ERY
FB,
426–53.

“A
S
HE
CANNOT
”
Ibid., xiv.

“
IN
INCESSANT
TORMENT
”
PTJ,
XXVIII, 155.

“J
EFFERSON
I
S
VERY
ROBUST
”
Ibid., 249.

H
IS
M
OUNTS
TENDED
TO
HAVE
NOBLE
NAMES
TJF, http://www.monticello
.org/site/research-and-collections/horses (accessed 2012). See also
FB,
87–109.

“
B
ELOW
THE
OLD
DAM
”
TJF, http://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/fishing (accessed 2012).

OU
TINGS
ON
THE
S
CHUYLKI
LL
R
IVER
Ibid.

A
DAY
AT
L
AK
E
G
EORGE
Ibid. See also
PTJ,
XX, 463–64.

“
A
FAR
LE
SS
PLEASANT
WATER
”
PTJ,
XX, 464.

H
E
KEPT
GUNS
TJF, http://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/firearms#_note-4 (accessed 2012).

TRAVELED
ARMED
Ibid.

HE
ONCE
LEFT
BEHIND
Ibid.

BEST
FORM
OF
EXERCISE
Ibid.

OFTEN
REC
OMMENDED
IT
Ibid.

RIDING
WAS
THE
GREAT
SOLACE
AND
ACTIVITY
Ibid.

J
EFFE
RSON
HUNTED
“
SQUIRREL
S
AND
PARTRIDGES
”
Bear,
Jefferson at Monticello,
17–18. See also TJF, http://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/hunting (accessed 2012).

“O
LD
M
ASTER
WOULDN
'
T
S
HOOT
”
Bear,
Jefferson at Monticello,
18.

WOULD
“
SCARE
 … 
UP
”
PARTRIDGES
Ibid.

DRIVE
HUNTE
RS
AWAY
FROM
M
ONTICEL
LO
'
S
DEER
PARK
Ibid., 21.

A
“
TW
O
SHOT
-
DOUBLE
BARREL
”
TJF, http://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/firearms#_note-4 (accessed 2012).

A
SET
OF
T
URKISH
PI
STOLS
Ibid.

“20
INCH
BARRELS
”
Ibid.

“
EVERY
A
MERICAN
WHO
WISHES
”
Ibid.

A
“
GUN
-
MAN
”
Ibid.

“I
AM
A
GREAT
FRIEND
”
Ibid.

“P
ERSONALITIES
,
W
HICH
LESSEN
THE
PLEA
SURES
”
PTJ,
XXVIII, 24.

T
HE
NEXT
WEE
K
J
AMES
M
ONROE
Ibid., 29–31. Jefferson made no secret of his own opinions. In an April 1794 letter, he weighed in on the Treasury, rumors of war with Britain, an issue about the French islands, naval and land armaments, and marine fortifications. Then came the obligatory denial of his own interest in the questions in which he had just expressed his interest: “I find my mind totally absorbed in my rural occupations,” he told Madison. (Ibid., 49–50.) A telling reaction to Federalism came in late March, when the House of Representatives created a Ways and Means Committee as a check on Hamilton. In the debate over whether to establish the panel, “the fiscal party,” Madison said, “perceiving their danger, offered a sort of compromise,” but the measure failed, and the committee was created. The House now had the institutional means to manage money matters more carefully. (Ibid., 46.)

LEGISL
ATION
TO
CREATE
A
NE
W
ARMY
Ibid., 38.

WAS
“
FOUNDED
UPON
THE
IDEA
”
Ibid., 41.

“A
CHAN
GE
SO
EXTRAORDINARY
”
Ibid.

TO
RENOUNCE
ANY
HER
EDITARY
TITLES
Ibid., 245.

“Y
OU
WANT
TO
HOLD
US
UP
”
Ibid.

G
ILES
'
S
AMENDMENT
PA
SSED
; D
EXTER
'
S
FAILED
Ibid.

HIS
ANNUAL
MESSAGE
Ibid., 213.

T
HE
W
HISKEY
R
EBELLION
IN
THE
W
EST
See Hogeland,
Whiskey Rebellion
.

ATTAC
KS
ON
B
OWER
H
ILL
Ibid., 147–50, 152–83.

G
ENE
RAL
J
OHN
N
EVILLE
Ibid., 97–105.

J
AME
S
M
C
F
ARLANE
,
WAS
SHOT
AND
KILLED
Ibid., 154–56.

THE
D
EMOC
RATIC
-R
EPUBLICAN
SOCI
ETIES
Eugene P. Link,
Democratic-Republican Societies, 1790–1800
(New York, 1973), is a full account. See also Philip S. Foner, ed.
The Democratic-Republican Societies, 1790–1800: A Documentary Sourcebook of Constitutions, Declarations, Addresses, Resolutions, and Toasts
(Westport, Conn., 1976); and
PTJ,
XXVIII, 220–22.

“T
HE
ATT
EMPT
WHICH
HAS
BEEN
”
PTJ,
XXVIII, 219.

“T
HE
DENUNCIATION
OF
”
Ibid., 228.

“T
HERE
W
AS
INDEED
”
Ibid., 229.

HE
WOULD
USE
A
WHITE
CAMBRIC
HANDKERCHIEF
TDLTJ,
48–49.

“T
HE
O
NLY
IMPATIENCE
OF
TE
MPER
”
Randall,
Jefferson,
III, 675.

WHEN
J
EFFERSO
N
ORDERED
TDLTJ,
321.

“T
ELL
J
UPI
TER
TO
COME
”
Ibid.

“
IN
TON
ES
AND
WITH
A
LOOK
”
Ibid.

T
WO
FERRYMEN
HAD
BEEN
FIGHTING
Ibid.

“
HIS
EYES
FLASHING
”
Ibid., 322.

“A
ND
THEY
DID
ROW
”
Ibid.

“I
F
YOU
VISIT
ME
”
PTJ,
XXVIII, 337.

“C
OME
THEN
 … 
AND
LET
US
”
Ibid., 368.

“Y
OU
OUGHT
TO
BE
”
Ibid., 315. Jefferson had suggested Madison should consider his own possible candidacy, a scenario Madison dismissed: “Perhaps it will be best, at least for the present to say in brief, that reasons of
every
kind, and some of them of the most
insuperable
as well as
obvious
kind, shut my mind against the admission of any idea such as you seem to glance at.” In fact, Madison implied, the time was coming when he and Jefferson would have to speak privately and in person about Jefferson's political future. (Ibid.)