Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power (95 page)

T
HE
DAN
GER
OF
WAR
WAS
REAL
EOL,
259. “There existed a domestic—what shall I call it?—a conspiracy, a faction leagued with a foreign power to effect a revolution or a subjugation of this country, by the arms of that foreign power,” said Robert Goodloe Harper. (Ibid.)

“T
HE
MANAGEMENT
OF
FOREIGN
RELATIONS
”
PTJ,
XXX, 348.

J
EFFERSO
N
DINED
WITH
A
DAMS
Ibid., 113.

“W
ITHOUT
WISHING
TO
DA
MP
”
PTJ,
XXXI, 129. Of Adams, James Madison said: “His language to the young men of Philadelphia is the most abominable and degrading that could fall from the lips of the first magistrate of an independent people, and particularly from a Revolutionary patriot.… The abolition of royalty was it seems not one of his Revolutionary principles.” (Ibid., XXX, 359.)

“I
AM
AMONG
THOSE
”
Ibid., 127.

T
HESE
WERE
“
B
RANCHES
OF
SCIENCE
”
Ibid., 127.

“T
HE
GENERATION
WHICH
IS
GOING
OFF
”
Ibid., 128.

A
PARADE
OF
ABOUT
1,200
SUPP
ORTERS
Ibid., XXX, 341–42.

A
FAST
DAY
Ibid.

VIOLENCE
BROKE
OUT
Ibid.

“A
DAMS
' F
AST
”
Warren,
Jacobin and Junto,
75.

“
A
FRAY
ENSUED
”
PTJ,
XXX, 341.

CONSPIRATO
RIAL
FRAME
OF
MIND
Ibid., 353. He understood that Adams was attempting to orchestrate public opinion. “All sorts of artifices have been descended to, to agitate the popular mind,” Jefferson wrote Madison on May 17, 1798. “The President received 3 anonymous letters (written probably by some of the war-men) announcing plots to burn the city on the fast-day. He thought them worth being made known, and great preparations were proposed by way of caution.… Many weak people packed their most valuable movables to be ready for transportation.” (Ibid.)

“I
KNOW
THAT
ALL
MY
MOTIONS
”
Ibid., 484.

FEARED
HI
S
MAIL
Ibid., 588. “Yet the infidelities of the post office and the circumstances of the times are against my writing fully and freely, whilst my own indispositions are as much against writing mysteries innuendoes and half confidences,” Jefferson said. “I know not which mortifies me most, that I should fear to write what I think, or my country bear such a state of things.” (Ibid.)

“
EXECUTED
WI
TH
UNRELENTING
FURY
”
Ibid., 440.

H
AMILTON
WAS
TO
BEC
OME
Ibid., 300.

H
AMILTON
ULTIMA
TELY
DECLINED
Ibid., 302.

“P
OLIT
ICS
AND
PARTY
HATRED
S
”
Ibid., 355.

J
EFFERSON
WAS
PRE
SSED
FOR
CASH
Ibid., 277.

“M
R
. B'
S
HABITUAL
INTOXICATIO
N
”
Ibid., 15.

ANNOUNCED
THE
DEA
TH
OF
H
ARRIET
H
EMINGS
Ibid., 43.

J
EFFERSON
COMPOSED
A
LETTER
Ibid., XXXI, 172–74.

THE
BIRTH
OF
ANOTHER
CHILD
Gordon-Reed,
Hemingses of Monticello,
73, 195.

“T
HE
X. Y. Z.
FEVER
”
Ibid., 559–60.

M
ONCK
WAS
A
NOBLEMAN
WHO
BACK
ED
THE
RESTORATION
For more of the letter that alluded to the Oliverians and to Monck, see
PTJ,
XXX, 559–60.

B
ENJAMIN
F
RANKLIN
B
ACHE
James Morton Smith,
Freedom's Fetters,
188–204.

J
AMES
T
HOMSON
C
ALLE
NDER
Ibid., 334–58.

M
ATTHEW
L
YON
Ibid., 225–46.

A
LETTER
HE
HAD
WRITT
EN
Ibid., 226.

“
CONTINUAL
GRASP
FOR
POWER
”
Ibid.

“
A
SEDIT
IOUS
FOREIGNER
”
Ibid.

L
YON
WAS
INDICTED
,
TR
IED
,
AND
CONVICTED
Ibid., 229–38. Steven Thomson Mason reported public reaction to Jefferson on November 23, 1798: “Lyon's trial has produced a very strong sensation here, and many who have valued themselves on being friends of order and supporters of government admit that this is going too far.” (
PTJ,
XXX, 586.)

FOUR
MONTHS
IN
JAIL
Ibid., 235.

FINED
HIM
$1,000
Ibid. Paterson also charged Lyon court costs of $60.96.

“M
ATTHEW
L
YON
,
AS
A
MEMBER
”
Ibid.

“I
KN
OW
NOT
”
Ibid., 237.

SOUGHT
REELE
CTION
Ibid., 238–42.

“W
HAT
PERSON
W
HO
REMEMBERS
”
PTJ,
XXXI, 57.

“P
RAY
,
MY
DEAR
S
IR
”
Ibid., XXX, 641.

SECRETLY
DRAFTED
RESOLUTIONS
Ibid., 529–56.

BALKED
AT
THE
NULL
IFICATION
LANGUAGE
Ibid., XXXI, 266–68.

“I
N
THE
S
ENATE
,
THERE
WAS
A
CON
SIDERABLE
”
Ibid., 266.

“I
THINK
WE
SHOULD
”
Ibid., XXX, 580.

“I
N
EVERY
FR
EE
AND
DELIBERATING
SOCIETY
”
Ibid., 388–89.

“N
O
ONE
CAN
KNOW
”
Margaret Bayard Smith,
First Forty Years,
406.

“I
AM
FOR
FREE
DOM
OF
RELIGION
”
PTJ,
XXX, 646–47.

H
E
SOLICITED
FRIENDS
Ibid., 661.

DISCUSSED
PUBLIC
-
OPI
NION
STRATEGIES
PTJ,
XXXI, 10. One example: “A piece published in Bache's paper on
foreign influence
has had the greatest currency and effect,” Jefferson wrote Madison on February 5, 1799. (Ibid.)

“
SENSIBLE
THAT
THIS
SUMMER
”
Ibid.

“I
WISH
YOU
TO
GIVE
THES
E
”
APE,
I, 63. He begged Madison to write letters he could then circulate. “You can render such incalculable services in this way.” (
PTJ,
XXXI, 10.) The mobilization of public sentiment was a powerful weapon. On February 13, 1799, Jefferson wrote: “A wonderful and rapid change is taking place in Pennsylvania, Jersey and N. York. Congress is daily plied with petitions against the Alien and Sedition laws and standing armies.… The materials now bearing on the public mind will infallibly restore it to its republican soundness in the course of the present summer, if the knowledge of facts can only be disseminated among the people.” Jefferson repeated the point to Pendleton the next day. (Ibid., 35–39.)

“A
DECIDED
CHARACTER
”
PTJ,
XXXI, 40.

THIRTY
·
ADAMS VS. JEFFERSON REDUX

“I
SHO
ULD
BE
UNFAITHFUL
”
PTJ,
XXXII, 126. Jefferson continued: “The first wish of my heart is to see them so guarded as to be safe in any hands, and not to depend on the personal disposition of the depository: and I hope this to be practicable as long as the people retain the spirit of freedom.… Our chief object at present should be to reconcile the divisions which have been artificially excited and to restore society to its wonted harmony.” (Ibid., 126–27.)

“
THAT
NOT
A
WORD
SHOULD
BE
SPO
KEN
”
PTJ,
XXXI, 64.

T
HE
F
EDERALISTS
“
BEGAN
TO
ENTER
”
Ibid.

“I
T
WAS
IMPOSSIBLE
TO
PR
OCEED
”
Ibid.

WAS
GOING
TO
RAISE
A
“P
RESIDENTIAL
ARMY
”
Ibid., 97.

J
OHN
R
ANDOLPH
O
F
R
OANOKE
Ibid., 305–6, 314.

T
HE
NEXT
E
VENING
TWO
MARINES
Ibid., 314.

“
JOSTLED
AND
[
HAD
]
HIS
COAT
PULLED
”
Ibid. Characteristically, Randolph refused to drop the matter, petitioning President Adams to dismiss the marines “to afford a remedy, and to restrain men … from giving personal abuse and insult.” Nothing came of the petition. (Ibid., 306–7)

A
“
REIGN
OF
WITC
HES
”
Ibid., XXX, 389.

REPORTED
THAT
H
A
MILTON
HAD
LED
Ibid., XXXI, 337–38.

“N
O
M
ORTAL
CAN
FORESEE
”
Ibid., 465.

“
WILL
NEVER
PERMIT
”
APE,
I, 68.

“
GOD
—
AND
A
RELIGIOUS
PRES
IDENT
”
Ferling,
Adams vs. Jefferson,
154.

“
BECAUSE
H
E
IS
NOT
A
FANATIC
”
APE,
I, 68.