Read Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power Online
Authors: Jon Meacham
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“
IS
AS
LI
KELY
”
Kaminski,
Founders on the Founders,
308.
“M
R
. J
EFFERSON
IS
A
MAN
”
Ibid., 307â8.
L
AWMAKERS
SLEPT
ON
PALLETS
Margaret Bayard Smith,
First Forty Years
, 23â24.
A
N
AILING
R
EPRESENTATIVE
Ibid., 24.
CARRIED
THR
OUGH
THE
SNOW
Ibid.
HIS
W
IFE
HELPED
GUIDE
HIS
HAND
Ibid.
AT
ONE
P
.
M
.
ON
T
UESDAY
, F
EBRUARY
17, 1801
PTJ,
XXXII, 578. See also Joanne B. Freeman, “A Qualified Revolution: The Presidential Election of 1800,” in Cogliano, ed.,
A Companion to Thomas Jefferson,
145â63.
“
THE
C
ONSPIRATORS
”
Margaret Bayard Smith,
First Forty Years,
25.
“
HURRIED
TO
THEIR
LO
DGINGS
”
Ibid.
“
TO
GO
WITHO
UT
A
CONSTITUTION
”
PTJ,
XXXIII, 4.
“
IN
THE
EVENT
OF
A
USURPATION
”
Ibid., 230.
“W
HEN
I
LOOK
BACK
”
PTJ,
XXXIV, 258â59.
I
N
A
LEX
ANDRIA
,
THIRTY
-
TWO
RO
UNDS
WERE
FIRED
Ibid., XXXIII, 3.
IN
R
ICHMOND
,
THERE
WERE
F
IREWORKS
Ibid., 46.
RANG
BELLS
FROM
BEFORE
NOON
TO
SUNDOWN
Ibid., 28.
“O
UR
PEOPLE
IN
THIS
COUNTY
”
Noble E. Cunningham,
Jeffersonian Republicans in Power: Party Operations, 1801â1809
(Chapel Hill, N.C., 1963), 6.
“M
ANY
DECLARE
YOU
AN
A
THEIST
”
PTJ,
XXXIV, 39.
“
THE
STRANG
E
REVOLUTION
”
Papers of John Marshall,
VI, 82.
“T
HE
C
OURSE
TO
BE
PURSUED
”
Ibid.
WOULD
“
EXCITE
THE
RESENTMEN
T
”
Ibid., 83.
ASKED
THE
VICE
PR
ESIDENT
TO
DINNER
McCullough,
John Adams,
558.
“M
R
. J
EFFERSON
DINES
W
ITH
US
”
Ibid.
S
HE
WAS
TO
L
EAVE
W
ASHINGTON
Ibid., 561.
J
EFF
ERSON
“
MADE
ME
A
VISI
T
”
Ibid., 559.
“I
CANNOT
REGRET
”
PTJ,
XXXIII, 37.
“A
S
TO
THE
FUTURE
”
Ibid., 32.
“T
O
YOU
, S
IR
,
DOTH
”
Ibid., 42.
“I
F
WE
SPEND
”
Ibid., XXXV, 90.
T
HE
“
DUTY
OF
THE
CH
IEF
MAGISTRATE
”
EOL,
283. Jefferson articulated this particular view after he left office, in 1810.
“I
SI
NCERELY
THANK
YOU
”
PTJ,
XXXIII, 422.
THIRTY
-
TWO
·
THE NEW ORDER OF THINGS BEGINS
“A
LL
 â¦Â
WILL
BEAR
IN
MIND
”
PTJ,
XXXIII, 149.
“Y
O
U
ALWAYS
HAD
THE
PEO
PLE
”
Ibid., 127.
“I
KNOW
INDEED
”
Ibid., 465
.
“A
S
THE
TWO
HOUSES
”
Ibid., 119.
M
ARSHALL
REP
LIED
Ibid., 120â21.
HAD
MADE
PLANS
McCullough,
John Adams,
565.
LEAVE
W
ASHINGTON
ON
THE
FOUR
A
.
M
.
Papers of John Marshall,
VI, 89.
HE
WENT
THROUGH
N
EW
Y
ORK
,
IT
WAS
SAID
Miller,
Federalist Era,
276.
“S
ENS
IBLE
,
MODERATE
MEN
”
McCullough,
John Adams,
564. Also see Sharp,
Deadlocked Election of 1800,
165â66.
HE
WAS
MORE
THAN
READ
Y
McCullough,
John Adams,
564â66. McCullough makes the case that, contrary to the conventional view, there is “no evidence” that Adams was “downcast, [and] bitter.” Sharp agrees, writing that “there is little evidence that an enraged and ill-tempered Adams [was] skulking out of Washington at the last moment to avoid public humiliation.” (Sharp,
Deadlocked Election of 1800,
165â66.)
CANNON
FIRE
National Intelligencer,
March 6, 1801.
THE
D
ISTRICT
OF
C
OLUM
BIA
'
S
ARTILLERY
CORP
S
Ibid.
S
AMUEL
H
ARRISON
S
MI
TH
CALLED
ON
J
EFFERSO
N
Margaret Bayard Smith,
First Forty Years,
26. “Mr. Jefferson had given [S. H. Smith] a copy [of the inaugural address] early in the morning, so that on coming out of the house, the paper was distributed immediately,” Margaret Bayard Smith wrote Miss Susan B. Smith on March 4, 1801. “Since then there has been a constant succession of persons coming for the papers.” (Ibid.)
WRITTEN
IN
J
EFFE
RSON
'
S
SMALL
,
NEAT
HA
ND
Ibid. “The original in Jefferson's handwriting is among the papers of Mr. J. Henley Smith; also his second inaugural address in his handwriting and signed.” (Ibid.)
A
T
TEN
O
'
CLOCK
National Intelligencer,
March 6, 1801.
S
HORTLY
BEFORE
NOON
Alexandria Times,
March 6, 1801.
A
DELEG
ATION
OF
CONGRESSMEN
National Intelligencer,
March 6, 1801.
FOLLOWED
A
GROUP
OF
OFFICERS
Alexandria Times,
March 6, 1801.
T
HEIR
SWORDS
DRAWN
Ibid.
PARTED
TO
ALLOW
J
EFFERSON
T
HROUGH
Ibid.
STOOD
,
SALUTI
NG
Ibid.
A
FTER
ANOTHER
BL
AST
OF
CANNON
National Intelligencer,
March 6, 1801.
A
BOU
T
A
THOUSAND
PEOPLE
Cunningham,
Jeffersonian Republicans in Power,
3.
“
MAGNIFICENT
IN
HEIG
HT
”
Byrd,
The Senate, 1789â1989: Addresses on the History of the United States Senate,
406.
T
HE
ROOM
WAS
86
B
Y
48
FEET
Ibid.
E
ACH
SENATOR
HAD
Ibid.
“
SO
CROWDED
TH
AT
”
Margaret Bayard Smith,
First Forty Years,
26. It was, the
National Intelligencer
reported, “the largest concourse of citizens ever assembled here.” (
National Intelligencer,
March 6, 1801.)
ROSE
IN
DE
FERENCE
TO
J
EFFERSON
National Intelligencer,
March 6, 1801.
A
FTER
M
ARSHALL
ADMINISTERED
THE
OATH
Wilentz,
Rise of American Democracy,
99, offers this memorable image: “The first thing that Thomas Jefferson saw as president was the dark face of John Marshall, the chief justice of the Supreme Court, who had just sworn him into office. The two were second cousins, related through the august Randolph family of Virginiaâand they intensely disliked each other's politics.” (Ibid.) See also Jean Edward Smith,
John Marshall: Definer of a Nation
(New York, 1996). For more on the rivalry between the two Virginians, see R. Kent Newmyer,
John Marshall and the Heroic Age of the Supreme Court
(Baton Rouge, La., 2001), 146â209, which focuses on Jefferson's presidential years, and James F. Simon,
What Kind of Nation: Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, and the Epic Struggle to Create a United States
(New York, 2002).
I
N
HIS
WEAK
VOICE
Margaret Bayard Smith,
First Forty Years,
26.
“A
LL
 â¦Â
WILL
BEAR
IN
MIND
”
PTJ,
XXXIII, 149â51.
“T
ODAY
THE
NEW
POLITICAL
YEAR
”
Papers of John Marshall,
VI, 89.
“T
H
E
DEMOCRATS
ARE
DIVI
DED
”
Ibid.
“I
F
HE
ARRANGES
HIMSELF
”
Ibid.
R
ETURNING
T
O
HIS
LETTER
WRITING
AT
FOUR
P
.
M
.
Ibid.