The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 42 (eBook)

16 November 1803 to 10 March 1804

Thomas Jefferson (Autor)

James P. McClure (Herausgeber)

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2018
752 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-18520-0 (ISBN)

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Confessing that he may be acting "with more boldness than wisdom," Jefferson in November 1803 drafts a bill to create Orleans Territory, which he entrusts to John Breckinridge for introduction in the Senate. The administration sends stock certificates to France in payment for Louisiana. Relieved that affairs in the Mediterranean have improved with the evaporation of a threat of war with Morocco, the president does not know yet that Tripoli has captured the frigate Philadelphia with its officers and crew. He deals with never-ending issues of appointment to office and quarreling in his own party, while hearing that some Federalists are "as Bitter as wormwood." He shares seeds of the Venus flytrap with Elizabeth Leathes Merry, the British minister's wife. She and her husband, however, create a diplomatic storm over seating arrangements at dinner parties. Having reached St. Louis, Meriwether Lewis reports on the progress of the western expedition. Congress passes the Twelfth Amendment, which will provide for the separate election of president and vice president. In detailed notes made after Aaron Burr calls on him in January, Jefferson records his long-standing distrust of the New Yorker. Less than a month later, a congressional caucus nominates Jefferson for a second term, with George Clinton to replace Burr as vice president. Jefferson makes his first trials of the "double penned writing box" called the polygraph.

Autor

James P. McClure, senior research historian 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 • Albert Gallatin • Amendment • American Antiquarian Society • American Enlightenment • American National Biography • Andrew Ellicott • An Essay on the Principle of Population • Bacon's Rebellion • Benjamin Hawkins • Benjamin Henry Latrobe • British North America • British subject • Burr (novel) • Bushrod Washington • Charles Cotesworth Pinckney • charles sumner • Charles Willson Peale • Citizens (Spanish political party) • Colonial history of the United States • commissioner • comptroller • Consideration • Daniel Hiester (1774–1834) • David K. E. Bruce • Declaratory Act • DeWitt Clinton • district attorney • Earl of Oxford • Edward Preble • Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte • Essex Junto • federalist party • Fort Adams • frigate • Gazette of the United States • General Government • George Steptoe Washington • George Washington Parke Custis • Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette • Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History • Haitian Revolution • Henry Dearborn • henry knox • Impressment • Indiana Territory • James T. Callender • Jay Treaty • Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau • Jedidiah Morse • Jérôme Bonaparte • Joel Barlow • John Breckinridge (U.S. Attorney General) • John Quincy Adams • John Wesley Jarvis • joseph bonaparte • Joseph Priestley • Kenneth W. Rendell • Legislature • Mary Jefferson Eppes • Mergenthaler Linotype Company • Meriwether Lewis • Morgan John Rhys • Mr. • newspaper • Oliver Hazard Perry • Oliver Phelps • Pamphlet • Patent • Payment • petitioner • Philip Barton Key • Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours • Politique • Postmaster General • President of the United States • proclamation • Prosecutor • Republican faction (Spanish Civil War) • Republicanism • Richard Hartshorne • salary • Salutation • Secretary at War • Selim III • Slavery • Sloop • stephen decatur • Tax • The North West Company • The Papers of James Madison • Thomas McKean • Thomas Robert Malthus • Thomas Sumter • timothy pickering • Tobias Lear • United States constitution • William C. C. Claiborne • William Eaton (soldier) • William Wirt (Attorney General)
• ISBN-10: 0-691-18520-4 / 0691185204
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-18520-0 / 9780691185200