Read Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power Online
Authors: Jon Meacham
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I
N
A
L
ETTER
TO
J
AMES
P
ARTON
Gordon-Reed,
Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings,
254â57.
R
ANDOLPH
“
SAID
IN
ONE
CASE
”
Ibid., 254.
“
A
GENTLEMAN
DININ
G
WITH
M
R
. J
EFFERSON
”
Ibid.
A
THEORY
ULTIMATELY
D
ISPROVED
BY
DNA
RESEARCH
http://www.monticello
.org/site/plantation-and-slavery/report-research-committee-thomas-jefferson-and-sally-hemings (accessed 2012).
“I
ASKED
C
OL
. R[
ANDOLPH
]”
Gordon-Reed,
Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings,
255.
“T
HE
SECRETS
OF
A
N
OLD
V
IRGINIA
MANOR
”
Ibid., 256.
“I
AM
LITTLE
ABLE
”
PTJRS,
IV, 35.
“I
T
IS
WONDERFUL
TO
ME
”
Ibid., 87â88.
“H
OW
DO
YOU
DO
?”
Ibid., 100.
“S
UCH
AN
I
NTERCOURSE
”
Ibid., III, 278. See also Cappon,
Adams-Jefferson Letters,
283â89.
“Y
OU
RE
MEMBER
THE
MACHINERY
”
Ibid., 305.
“M
ANY
ARE
THE
EVILS
”
Ibid., 356.
T
HE
SECOND
PRESIDE
NT
SPENT
TWO
DAYS
Ibid., IV, 314. The ensuing scene is drawn from this source.
“T
HIS
IS
ENOUGH
FOR
ME
”
Ibid., 313.
R
USH
SENT
WORD
OF
J
EFFERSON
'
S
SENTIMENT
S
Ibid., 389â91.
“A
LETTER
FROM
YOU
”
Ibid., 428â29.
W
HEN
A
DAMS
ANSWERED
Ibid., 483â85.
“O
N
THE
SUBJECT
OF
THE
HISTORY
”
Cappon,
Adams-Jefferson Letters,
452.
“S
O
MANY
SUBJECTS
CROWD
UPON
ME
”
PTJRS,
VI, 277.
“Y
OU
AND
I
OUGHT
NOT
TO
DI
E
BEFORE
”
Ibid., 297.
“M
R
. A
DAMS
AN
D
MYSELF
”
Ibid., V, 670.
“M
Y
REPUTAT
ION
HAS
BEEN
”
Ibid., VI, 227.
“T
HE
SU
MMUM
BONUM
WITH
ME
”
Ibid., 231.
“M
EN
HAVE
DIFFERED
”
Cappon,
Adams-Jefferson Letters,
335.
“A
ND
SHALL
YOU
AND
I”
Ibid., 337.
“I
BELIEVE
IN
THE
INTEGRITY
”
PTJRS,
V, 3.
“T
HE
NATUR
AL
ARISTOCRACY
”
Ibid., VI, 563.
“I
HAV
E
THUS
”
Ibid., 566â67.
EXCHANGED
A
TOTAL
OF
329
LETTERS
Cappon,
Adams-Jefferson Letters,
xxix.
“W
E
HAVE
HAD
A
WRETCH
ED
WINTER
”
PTJRS,
III, 437.
“T
HE
RANC
OR
OF
PARTY
”
Ibid., 473.
“W
AR
HOW
EVER
MAY
BECOME
”
Ibid., I, 61. As ever, Jefferson worried about Congress. “I know no government which would be so embarrassing in war as ours,” he wrote Madison on March 17, 1809. “This would proceed very much from the lying and licentious character of our papers; but much also from the wonderful credulity of the members of Congress in the floating lies of the day. And in this no experience seems to correct them. I have never seen a Congress during the last 8 years a great majority of which I would not implicitly rely on in any question, could their minds have been purged of all errors of fact.” (Ibid.)
N
EW
S
OF
A
B
RITISH
FRIGAT
E
AND
SLOOP
OF
WAR
Ibid., IV, 133.
“O
UR
COUNTRY
HAS
TWICE
”
Ibid., 103.
J
EFFERSON
RETURNED
HO
ME
Ibid., V, 82.
“Y
OUR
DECLARATION
OF
WAR
”
Ibid.
SENT
A
WAR
-
PREPARATION
MESSAGE
TO
C
ONGRESS
EOL,
659â700.
“W
E
ARE
TO
HAVE
WAR
THEN
?”
PTJRS,
IV, 472.
“Y
OUR
MESSAGE
HAD
ALL
”
Ibid., 376â77.
FORTY
-
ONE
·
TO FORM STATESMEN, LEGISLATORS AND JUDGES
“I
N
A
REPUBLICA
N
NATION
”
TJ to David Harding, April 20, 1824. Extract published at Papers of Thomas Jefferson Retirement Series Digital Archive, www.monticello.org/familyletters (accessed 2011).
A
S
LATE
AS
1810
EOL,
667.
“T
HE
PEOPLE
WILL
NOT
”
Ibid.
THE
W
AR
OF
1812
W
AS
DISASTROUS
Ibid., 659â700. See also
JHT,
VI, 107â36; Anthony S. Pitch,
The Burning of Washington: The British Invasion of 1814
(Annapolis, Md., 1998), is a vivid account of the attack on the American capital.
“N
O
GOVERNMENT
CAN
BE
MAINTAINED
”
PTJRS,
VII, 648.
VICTORI
ES
AT
B
ALTIMORE
AND
A
T
P
LATTSBURGH
EOL,
690â91.
THE
H
A
RTFORD
C
ONVENTION
Ibid., 692â95. See also
JHT,
VI, 126â27. Richard Buel, Jr.,
America on the Brink: How the Political Struggle Over the War of 1812 Almost Destroyed the Young Republic
(New York, 2005), chronicles the depth of the Federalist opposition to the Republican project in the first decade and a half of the nineteenth century.
“T
HE
CEMENT
OF
THE
U
NION
”
JHT,
VI, 126.
I
N
1814
T
HE
E
PISCOPAL
BISHOP
O
F
S
OUTH
C
AROLINA
PTJRS,
VII, 368.
P
AT
SY
GUESSED
Randall,
Jefferson,
III, 332.
T
HE
SM
ASHING
OF
GLASS
ALER
TED
Ibid., 331.
S
TRANGERS
HOPIN
G
FOR
A
GLIMPSE
Ibid.
“
AP
PROACH
WITHIN
A
DOZE
N
YARDS
”
Ibid.
H
ENRY
R
ANDAL
L
ONCE
WALKED
OVER
Ibid., 332.
A V
IRGINIA
GENTLEMAN
WHO
HAD
FALLE
N
OUT
Ibid., 333.
H
IS
HEARING
W
AS
FAILING
A
BIT
Ibid., 426.
I
L
L
IN
EARLY
1818
Ibid., 445.
H
E
WROTE
WARMLY
TO
J
OHN
A
DAMS
Ibid., 446.
CHRONIC
FINANCIAL
T
ROUBLE
See, for instance,
JHT,
VI, 453â56.
APPEARS
TO
HAVE
DRUNK
TOO
MUCH
Alan Pell Crawford,
Twilight at Monticello: The Final Years of Thomas Jefferson
(New York, 2008), 138.
IS
SAID
TO
HAVE
GROWN
JEALOUS
Ibid., 137â38.
THREE
TERMS
AS
GOVERNOR
JHT,
VI, 341. See also http://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/thomas-mann-randolph (accessed 2012).
FELL
OUT
OVER
THE
FATE
OF
E
DGEHILL
Gordon-Reed,
Hemingses of Monticello,
418.
THE
FATHER
GREW
ERRATIC
Ibid.
,
416â18.
SAID
HE
W
AS
“
MORE
FEROCIOUS
”
Ibid., 417.
C
HARLES
L. B
ANKHEAD
PTJRS,
III, 633â34. See also Anne Z. Cockerham, Arlene W. Keeling, and Barbara Parker, “Seeking Refuge at Monticello: Domestic Violence in Thomas Jefferson's Family.”
Magazine of Albemarle County History
64 (2006): 29â52.
“H
E
WAS
A
FINE
-
LOOKING
”
Bear,
Jefferson at Monticello,
94.
“I
HAVE
SEEN
HIM
”
Ibid.
J
EFFERSON
TOOK
B
ANKHEAD
TO
P
OPLAR
F
OREST
Crawford,
Twilight at Monticello,
70â72. See also Randall,
Jefferson,
III, 264.