Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power (106 page)

F
IELDED
C
HARLES
C
OTESWO
RTH
P
INCKNEY
APE,
I, 83–84.

T
HE
PR
ESIDENT
WAS
REELECTE
D
Ibid.

“
THERE
IS
A
PLOT
”
“A Friend of the Constitution” to TJ, December 6, 1804, Thomas Jefferson Papers, LOC.

“T
HE
POWER
OF
THE
A
DMINIST
RATION
”
Bowers,
Jefferson in Power,
266.

“W
E
HAVE
BU
T
FEW
” TJ
to Martha Jefferson Randolph, January 7, 1805, Pierpont Morgan Library, New York City.

“W
E
ENTERED
YO
UNG
”
TJ to John Langdon, January 9, 1805, Thomas Jefferson Papers, LOC.

WAS
DRESSED
WEL
L
William Plumer's
Memorandum of Proceedings in the United States Senate, 1803–1807,
ed. Everett Somerville Brown (New York, 1969), 211–13.

“H
E
WAS
TODAY
R
ESERVED
”
Ibid.

“W
E
DROVE
TH
EM
”
Augustus Foster to Elizabeth Cavendish, December 2, 1805, Augustus Foster Papers, LOC.

V
ICE
P
RESIDENT
B
UR
R
TOOK
HIS
LEAVE
Isenberg,
Fallen Founder,
279–82.

“H
E
CAN
NEVER
”
William Plumer's Memorandum,
213.

“A
LL
IS
NOW
BUSINESS
”
TJ to John Glendy, March 3, 1805, Thomas Jefferson Papers, LOC.

“
T
HE
SUCCESSOR
OF
M
ONTE
ZUMA
”
Augustus Foster to Frederick Foster, July 1, 1805, Augustus Foster Papers, LOC.

DRESSED
IN
BLA
CK
Ibid.

ON
HORSEBACK
Ibid.

SP
EAKING
TOO
SOFTLY
Ibid.

“D
URING
THIS
COURSE
”
Inaugural Address, March 4, 1805, LOC.

“
ALL
THOSE
WHO
CHOSE
ATTENDED
”
Augustus Foster to Frederick Foster, July 1, 1805, Augustus Foster Papers, LOC.

S
O
ME
MUSIC
CAPPED
THE
DAY
Ibid.

“M
Y
OPINION
ORIG
INALLY
”
TJ to John Taylor, January 6, 1805, Thomas Jefferson Papers, LOC.

“I
HAVE
SINCE
BECOME
”
Ibid.

“I
T
BEING
THE
WISH
”
William Clark to TJ, April 3, 1805, Thomas Jefferson Papers, LOC.

“I
CAN
FORESEE
NO
MATERIAL
”
Meriwether Lewis to TJ, April 7, 1805, Thomas Jefferson Papers, LOC.

A
COLLE
CTION
OF
ARTIFACTS
Thomas Jefferson's List of Items Sent by William Clark, November 10, 1807, Coolidge Collection of Thomas Jefferson Manuscripts, Massachusetts Historical Society.

“T
HE
VOYAGE
OF
DISCOVERY
”
William Eustis to TJ, August 17, 1805, Thomas Jefferson Papers, LOC.

C
LARK
STAKED
THE
CLAIM
The Journals of Lewis and Clark,
ed. John Bakeless (New York, 2002), 283. See also Smelser,
Democratic Republic,
128.

F
ROM
L
ONDON
HE
ORDER
ED
List of Items to be Acquired in London, 1805, The Huntington Library, San Marino, Calif.

A
ROOM
IN
THE
MA
NSION
FOR
FOSSILS
TJ to Caspar Wistar, Jr., March 20, 1808, Thomas Jefferson Papers, LOC.

S
KULLS
,
JAWBONES
AND
T
EETH
Ibid.

“
ONE
HORN
OF
A
COLOSSAL
ANIMAL
”
Ibid.

“T
H
E
BONES
ARE
SPREAD
”
Ibid.

PURCHASED
TWO
BABY
BEAR
CUBS
Zebulon Pike to TJ, February 3, 1808, Editorial Files, Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Princeton University.

“I
WOULD
RECOMME
ND
IF
PRACTICABLE
”
Ibid.

“I
PUT
THEM
TOGETHER
WH
ILE
HERE
”
TJ to Charles Willson Peale, February 6, 1808, Thomas Jefferson Papers, LOC.

“W
E
CERTAIN
LY
ARE
NOT
TO
DENY
”
TJ to Daniel Salmon, February 15, 1808, Thomas Jefferson Papers, LOC.

“
THE
ACTUAL
P
RESIDENT
”
Life and Correspondence of Rufus King,
IV, 509.

“A
JEALOUS
SENSE
OF
PRAISE
AND
CENSURE
”
Edward Thornton to Lord Hawkesbury, August 4, 1802, FO 5/35, National Archives of the United Kingdom, Kew.

“
WELL
-
PLACED
TO
BE
CONSIDERED
”
Ibid.

“I
REALLY
BELIEVE
”
Ibid.

“W
IL
L
YOU
COME
AND
TAKE
”
TJ to John Breckinridge, March 5, 1806, Whelpley Collection, Cincinnati Historical Society.

THE
CROAKING
OF
FRO
GS
JHT,
V, 122–24.

“
AGRICULTURE
,
GA
RDENING
”
Margaret Bayard Smith,
First Forty Years,
50.

“W
HAT
WOUL
D
YOU
THINK
”
TJ to James Madison, Albert Gallatin, and Henry Dearborn, February 28, 1806, Thomas Jefferson Papers, LOC.

SUGGEST
IONS
FOR
THE
YOUNG
TJ to John Carr, April 28, 1807, University of Virginia.

TENSIONS
WITH
S
PAIN
EOL,
374–75.

THE
FA
TE
OF
THE
F
LORIDAS
Ibid.

F
INANCIAL
CLAIMS
Harry Ammon,
James Monroe,
(Charlottesville, 1990), 238–44.

M
ISSION
OF
M
ONROE
'
S
TO
THE
S
PANISH
CAPITAL
Message to Congress on Spanish and French Spoliations, December 6, 1805, LOC.

RISK
A
BROADER
WAR
Ibid. See also
EOL,
375.

“O
UR
C
ONSTITUTION
IS
”
JHT,
V, 76.

HARASSING
A
MERI
CAN
SHIPS
John M. Murrin et al.,
Liberty, Equality, Power,
6th ed. (Boston, 2012), 218.

VICTORY
AT
A
USTERLITZ
EOL,
621.

TRIU
MPH
AT
T
RAFALGAR
Ibid.

ALL
EGEDLY
PLOTTING
AGAI
NST
THE
U
NITED
S
TATES
Isenberg,
Fallen Founder,
271–316. “Personal friendship for you and the love of my country induce me to give you a warning about Col. Burr's intrigues,” an anonymous correspondent wrote Jefferson in a letter received on the first day of December 1805.

You admit him at your table, and you held a long, and private conference with him a few days ago after dinner at the very moment he is meditating the overthrow of your administration and what is more conspiring against the state. Yes, sir, his aberrations through the Western states had no other object. A foreign agent, now at Washington, knows since February last his plans and has seconded them beyond what you are aware of. Mistrust Burr's opinions, and advice: be thoroughly persuaded B. is a new Catilina. Watch his connections with Mr. M
——
y and you will find him a British pensioner, and agent. Anonymous to TJ, received December 1, 1805, Thomas Jefferson Papers, LOC.

A related development was the arrival in New York of the Spanish officer Francisco de Miranda, a Venezuelan-born adventurer who dreamed of building a New World empire out of all the Spanish territories. A second note from the “Friend” said:

I had forgot in my last to mention the arrival at N. York of General Miranda. This event forms a link in Burr's maneuvers. His instructions like those of Burr come from the same source … the same plans, or others similar in their tendency are to be offered to you … Be careful; although ostensibly directed against a foreign power, the destruction of our government, your ruin, and the material injury of the Atlantic states are their true object. “A Friend” to TJ, received after December 1, 1805, Thomas Jefferson Papers, LOC.

“W
HAT
AN
AWFUL
SPECTACLE
”
TJ to Thomas Lomax, January 11, 1806, Thomas Jefferson Papers, LOC.

THIRTY
-
SEVEN
·
A DEEP, DARK, AND WIDESPREAD CONSPIRACY

“T
H
E
DESIGNS
OF
”
TJ to Caesar A. Rodney, December 5, 1806. Grata Collection, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

BRIGHT
ENED
BY
P
ATSY
'
S
FAMIL
Y
'
S
JHT,
V, 65.

D
OLLEY
M
ADISON
HAD
HELPED
P
ATSY
Martha Jefferson Randolph to TJ, October 26, 1805, Coolidge Collection of Thomas Jefferson Manuscripts, Massachusetts Historical Society.

TO
TEND
TO
HIS
CELLAR
TJ to Jean P. Reibelt, November 16, 1805 Thomas Jefferson Papers, LOC.

R
ANDOLPH
OF
R
OANOKE
B
ROKE
WITH
J
EFFERSON
See, for instance, EOL, 375.

A
LONGSTANDING
DISPUTE
INVOLV
ING
Cunningham,
Jeffersonian Republicans in Power,
78–79. See also
EOL,
128–29.

“H
E
CONSIDER
ED
G
REAT
B
RITAIN
”
William Plumer's
Memorandum,
443–44.

S
TRUCK
AGAIN
THE
NEXT
DAY
Ibid., 444.