Day-by-Day / March 22, 1803

March 22, 1803

Federalist folly

Monticello, VA Writing from his home, Monticello, President Thomas Jefferson comments on an editorial recommending immediate succession from the Union.

Monticello Mar. 22. 1803.

Dear Sir

I see the federalists find one paper in Kentucky into which they can get what they write either here or there. Bradford’s Guardian of freedom of Mar. 4. has a piece recommending immediate separation. A cool calculation of interest however would shew that Eastern America would not be the greatest sufferer by that folly. Accept my affectionate salutations.

Th: Jefferson[1]Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, Founders Online, National Archives, founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-04-02-0531 accessed 15 May 2022. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, … Continue reading

 

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Notes
1 Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, Founders Online, National Archives, founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-04-02-0531 accessed 15 May 2022. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 4, 8 October 1802–15 May 1803, ed. Mary A. Hackett, J. C. A. Stagg, Jeanne Kerr Cross, Susan Holbrook Perdue, and Ellen J. Barber. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998, p. 444.]

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