The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 32 (eBook)

1 June 1800 to 16 February 1801

Thomas Jefferson (Autor)

Barbara B. Oberg (Herausgeber)

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2018
712 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-18483-8 (ISBN)

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"I have sometimes asked myself whether my country is the better for my having lived at all?" Jefferson muses in this volume. His answer: "I do not know that it is." Required by custom to be "entirely passive" during the presidential campaign, Jefferson, at Monticello during the summer of 1800, refrains from answering attacks on his character, responds privately to Benjamin Rush's queries about religion, and learns of rumors of his own death. Yet he is in good health, harvests a bountiful wheat crop, and maintains his belief that the American people will shake off the Federalist thrall. He counsels James Monroe, the governor of Virginia, on the mixture of leniency and firmness to be shown in the wake of the aborted revolt of slaves led by the blacksmith Gabriel. Arriving in Washington in November, Jefferson reports that the election "is the only thing of which any thing is said here." He is aware of Alexander Hamilton's efforts to undermine John Adams, and of desires by some Federalists to give interim executive powers to a president pro tem of the Senate. But the Republicans have made no provision to prevent the tie of electoral votes between Jefferson and Aaron Burr. Jefferson calls Burr's conduct "honorable & decisive" before prospects of intrigue arise as the nation awaits the decision of the House of Representatives. As the volume closes, the election is still unresolved after six long days of balloting by the House.

Autor

Barbara B. Oberg, Senior Research Scholar and Lecturer with the Rank of Professor at Princeton University, is General Editor of The Papers of Thomas Jefferson.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.6.2018
• Reihe/Serie: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson
• Reihe/Serie: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
• Schlagworte: Aaron Burr • Agriculture (Chinese mythology) • Albert Gallatin • Amendment • American Antiquarian Society • armistice • Austrians • ballot • Banastre Tarleton • Baronet • battle of bladensburg • Battle of Marengo • Benjamin Ellicott • Benjamin Hawkins • Benjamin Lincoln • Benjamin Rush • Burr (novel) • Bushrod Washington • Charles Cotesworth Pinckney • Charles Pinckney (governor) • Charles Willson Peale • Citizens (Spanish political party) • Consideration • constitutional amendment • Daniel Hiester (1774–1834) • David Humphreys (soldier) • Declaration of Independence • English Civil War • Fatherland (novel) • federalist party • General Government • George W. Bush • Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette • Government of the District of Columbia • Harrison Gray Otis (politician) • Henry Dearborn • House of Bonaparte • Hugh Henry Brackenridge • Investigate (magazine) • I Wish (manhwa) • James A. Bayard (elder) • James T. Callender • Jay Treaty • Jeremiah Dixon • John Breckinridge (U.S. Attorney General) • John Cleves Symmes • John Coakley Lettsom • John Drayton • John Quincy Adams • John Randolph of Roanoke • joseph bonaparte • Joseph Habersham • Joseph Priestley • Legislature • Le Moniteur Universel • letter of marque • Luther Martin • Mary Jefferson Eppes • Mason–Dixon line • Mergenthaler Linotype Company • Monsieur • Napoleon • national convention • newspaper • of education • On Religion • Pamphlet • Pierpont Edwards • Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours • power of attorney • President of the Continental Congress • President of the United States • Previous question • Publication • Reform Act 1832 • Rembrandt Peale • Republicanism • Secretary at War • Smithsonian Institution • steam engine • Stephen Sayre • Supreme Court of Pennsylvania • Tax • Tench Coxe • The Papers of James Madison • The Philosopher • Thomas Law (1756–1834) • Thomas McKean • Thomas Paine • Thomas Sumter • timothy pickering • Tories (British political party) • Treaty • Vice President of the United States • Whigs (British political party) • William Andrews Clark Memorial Library • william augustus bowles • William Cobbett • William Wirt (Attorney General) • Writing
• ISBN-10: 0-691-18483-6 / 0691184836
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-18483-8 / 9780691184838