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Continuing the Revolution
The Federalist Era(1789 – 1800)
Continuing the Revolution(1789 – 1800)
Timeline: A New Nation (2)
1794 Whiskey Rebellion
1798 Alien & Sedition Acts
1800 Jefferson’s “Revolution of 1800”
1803 Louisiana Purchase
1804 First Barbary War
1808 International slave trade prohibited
1812-1814 War of 1812
The Federalist EraMen who have been intimate friends all their lives cross the street to avoid meeting, and turn their heads another way, lest they should be obliged to touch hats. (Jefferson)
If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all. (Jefferson)
We are in a wilderness without a single footstep to guide us. (Madison)
Tell them from ME, at MY request, for God’s sake, to cease these conversations and threatenenings about a separation of the Union. It must hang together as long as it can be made to. (Jefferson)
“His Rotundity”
Some published attacks on Adams:
• repulsive pedant• old, guerelous {sic}, bald, blind, and crippled• gross hypocrite• in his private life, one of the most egregious fools upon the continent• that strange compound of ignorance and ferocity, of deceit and weakness• a hideous hermaphroditical character which has neither the force and firmness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman• the reign of Mr. Adams has hitherto been one continued tempest of malignant passions• a wretch that has neither the science of a magistrate, the politeness of a courtier, nor the courage of a man
Payback: Jefferson & Sally Hemings
to preserve and disseminate their principles, undaunted by the frowns of power, uncontaminated by the luxury of aristocracy, until the Rights of Man shall become the supreme law in every land (Dem-Repub. Press)
The Infant Liberty Nursed by Mother Mob
The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy. (Madison)
Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God … whose breasts he has made his particular deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. (Jefferson)
Summary
Federalists• for:
– federal power– British ties– industrial, mercantile
growth
• against:– state power– democratization
Democratic-Republicans• for:
– state power– French ties– agrarian growth– democratization
• against:– federal power
I am anxious, always, to compare the opinions of those in whom I confide with one another, and these again (without being bound by them) with my own, that I may extract all the good I can.
Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.
Abigail: I ruminate upon France as I lie awake many hours before light. My present thought is that their virtuous army will give them a government in spite of all their conventions but of what nature it will be, it is hard to say.
John: I want to sit and converse with you about our debates [in the Senate] every evening. I sit here alone and brood over political probabilities and conjectures.
John: Send more … there is more good thoughts, fine strokes, and mother wit in them than I hear [in the Senate] in a whole week.
Abigail: What a jumble are my letters – politics, domestic concerns, farming anecdotes – pray light your cigars with them.
a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuit of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. (Jefferson, first inaugural)
I have nothing more to offer than what General Washington would have had to offer, had he been taken by the British and put to trial. I have adventured my life in endeavouring to obtain the liberty of my countrymen, and am a willing sacrifice in their cause. (convicted rebel)
1783
It is thus the present administration evinces its patriotism, and its energy; not by vain vaunting of prowess; but by actions, which will show the world that while the wish of the American nation is peace, she will not hesitate for a moment to make that power feel the vengeance of her arms, that dares, in violation of justice, to invade her rights. (Jefferson)
“Patriotism”: Piristratides, going with some other as ambassador to the King of Persia’s lieutenants, was asked whether he came with a public commission or on their own court? He answered, ‘If successful, for the public; if unsuccessful, for ourselves.’ Such, I think, may be my commission to the Barbary Coast. (Eaton’s diary)
Tenskwatawa (George Catlin, c.1830)
Civilising the Indian (George Catlin, 1833)
The public indignation is universally excited by the repeated destruction of our unoffending seamen. (Madison)
