Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power (97 page)

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Authors: Jon Meacham

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“O
UR
T
ORIES
BEGIN
TO
GIVE
”
John Randolph to Joseph Nicholson, December 16, 1800, Joseph H. Nicholson Papers, LOC.

“I
DO
NOT
Â â¦Â
APPREHEND
”
PTJ,
XXXII, 343.

SHOWED
NO
OUTWARD
SIGNS
Isenberg,
Fallen Founder,
210â12.

T
HERE
IS
NO
EVIDENC
E
Ibid, 216â20. Joanne Freeman points out, however, something that clearly bothered the Jeffersonians. “In the end, Burr kept his word [about not working against Jefferson in the House] but left things open; he didn't court the Presidency, but once the tie was announced, he said nothing about declining the office if offered, an ambiguity that kept Federalist hopes alive until the final hour.” (Freeman, “The Presidential Election of 1800,” in Cogliano, ed.,
A Companion to Thomas Jefferson,
155.)

J
EFFERSON
SOON
CAME
TO
BELIEVE
Ibid., 230â31.

T
HE
EVENTUAL
OUTCOME
PTJ,
XXXII, 347.

“T
HE
P
RESIDENT
, I
AM
TOLD
”
Life and Correspondence of Rufus King,
III, 366â67.

“T
HE
DREAD
NOW
”
J. Preston to John Breckenridge, December 28, 1800, Breckinridge Family Papers, LOC.

“T
HE
F
EDS
APPEAR
”
PTJ,
XXXII, 358.

T
H
EY
CAME
TO
J
EFFERSON
Ibid., 367.

“W
HERE
,” M
C
H
ENRY
ASKED
Life and Correspondence of Rufus King,
III, 362.

THIRTY
-
ONE
Â·
A DESPERATE STATE OF AFFAIRS

“R
UMORS
ARE
VARIOUS
”
Horn, Lewis, and Onuf,
Revolution of 1800,
65.

“I
T
IS
EXTREMELY
U
NCERTAIN
”
The Papers of John Marshall,
VI, ed. Herbert A. Johnson and others (Chapel Hill, N.C., 1974â), 41.

S
IX
OR
SE
VEN
BOARDINGHOUSES
Records of the Columbia Historical Society.,
Vol. 25, 1923, 198â99.

A P
HILADELPHIA
BOOT
M
AKER
National Intelligencer,
February 6. 1801.

A
BOOKSTORE
Ibid., February 16, 1801.

B
ENJAMIN
W. M
ORRIS
AND
C
O
. G
ROCERIE
S
Washington Federalist,
February 17, 1801.

WILD
,
WOODED
,
AND
FILLED
WITH
GAME
Margaret Bayard Smith,
First Forty Years,
10. “Conrad's boarding house was on the south side of Capitol Hill and commanded an extensive and beautiful view,” Margaret Bayard Smith wrote. “It was on the top of the hill, the precipitous sides of which were covered with grass, shrubs, and trees in their wild uncultivated state.” (Ibid.) There was only one church in the city. “At this time the only place for public worship in our new city was a small, a very small frame building at the bottom of Capitol Hill. It had been a tobacco-house belonging to Daniel Carroll and was purchased by a few Episcopalians for a mere trifle and fitted up as a church in the plainest and rudest manner. During the first winter, Mr. Jefferson regularly attended service on the Sabbath-day in the humble church.” (Ibid., 13.)

“T
HE
ELECTION
”
PTJ,
XXXII, 385.

B
URR
“
WAS
HEARD
TO
INSINUA
TE
”
Ibid., 400.

“S
OME
OF
OUR
FRIE
NDS
”
Ibid., 399.

“T
HERE
WOULD
BE
REALLY
CAUSE
”
Dunn,
Jefferson's Second Revolution,
198.

“W
HAT
WILL
BE
THE
PLANS
”
Ibid., 204.

“J
EFFERSON
AS
A
POLITICIAN
”
Roger Griswold to Fanny Griswold, January 22, 1801, William Lane Griswold Memorial Collection, Yale University.

O
N
S
UNDAY
, J
ANUARY
11, 1801
Ibid., January 11, 1801.

“
OPEN
S
UPON
US
”
PTJ,
XXXII, 318.

TOLD
BY
“
HIGH
AUTHORITY
”
Ibid., XXXIV, 21.

“S
OME
STRANGE
REPORTS
”
Ibid., XXXII, 403.

DE
BATING
WHETHER
TO
RE
MAIN
Ibid.

“U
NFRIENDLY
FOR
EIGN
MINISTERS
”
Ibid., 425â26.

THE
J
UDICIARY
A
CT
OF
1801
Kathryn Turner, “Federalist Policy and the Judiciary Act of 1801,”
The William and Mary Quarterly,
3rd ser., 22 (January 1965): 3â32. See also Miller,
Federalist Era,
275. John Marshall described things to Rufus King this way on January 18, 1801: “The Congress are probably about to pass a bill reorganizing our judicial system. The principal feature in the new bill is the separation of the supreme from the circuit courts.” (
Papers of John Marshall,
VI, 57.)

“T
HE
J
UDICIARY
BILL
HAS
BEEN
”
Stevens Thomson Mason to John Breckinridge, February 12, 1801, Breckinridge Family Papers, LOC.

A
“
PARASITICAL
PLANT
”
EOL,
420.

HAD
“
RETIRED
INTO
THE
JUDICIARY
”
Ibid.

“
MIDNIGHT
JUDGES
”
Miller,
Federalist Era,
275.

TO
NAME
J
OHN
M
ARSHALL
Kathryn Turner, “The Appointment of Chief Justice Marshall,”
The William and Mary Quarterly,
3rd ser., 17 (April 1960): 143â63.

MET
IN
J
ANUARY
1801
Simon,
What Kind of Nation,
134.

T
HOUGH
A
DAMS
HAD
SOUGHT
TO
REENLIS
T
J
OHN
J
AY
Ibid.

“W
HO
SHALL
I
NOMINATE
NOW
?”
Ibid.

HE
TOL
D
THE
PRESIDENT
THAT
HE
HAD
NO
COUNSEL
T
O
GIVE
Ibid.

“I
BELIEVE
I
MUS
T
NOMINATE
YOU
”
Ibid
.

M
ARS
HALL
RECALLED
BEING
“
PLEASED
”
Ibid.

CONFIRMED
T
HE
PRESIDENT
'
S
NOMIN
ATION
Ibid.

“M
R
. J
EFFERSON
I
S
UNDOUBTEDLY
”
Caesar A. Rodney to Joseph H. Nicholson, February 17, 1801, Joseph H. Nicholson Papers, LOC.

J
EFFE
RSON
HIMSELF
WAS
WOR
RIED
ENOUGH
PTJRS,
III, 306. The ensuing scene is drawn from this account of Jefferson's.

“I
NTERE
ST
,
CHARACTER
,
DUTY
”
PTJ,
XXXII, 432.

“B
UT
SHOULD
IT
BE
POSSIBLE
”
Ibid.

“I
F
BAD
MEN
WILL
DA
RE
”
Ibid., 433.

T
HE
P
ENNSYLVANIA
MILITIA
WAS
TO
BE
RE
ADIED
Ibid., XXXIII, 391.

E
VEN
A
FEW
FI
RES
Ibid., XXXII, 435.

“T
HE
BURNING
OF
THE
WAR
-
OFFICE
”
Ibid.

“I
T
S
EEMS
HEAVEN
”
Roger Griswold to Fanny Griswold, January 20, 1801, William Lane Griswold Memorial Collection, Yale University.

“I
LONG
T
O
BE
”
PTJ,
XXXII, 475.

“T
HE
APPROACH
OF
THE
11
TH
F
EB
.”
Ibid., 559.

NOTES
J
EFFERSON
MADE
Ibid., 583.

B
AYAR
D
SOON
SHIFTED
TACK
Sharp,
Deadlocked Election of 1800,
161.

“T
HIS
IS
ABSOLUTELY
FALSE
”
Anas,
238â39.

D
ID
J
EFFERSON
STRIKE
A
DEAL
See, for instance,
EOL,
285;
JHT,
IV, 487â93; Sharp,
Deadlocked Election of 1800,
159â62; Joanne B. Freeman, “Corruption and Compromise in the Election of 1800: The Process of Politics on the National Stage” in Horn, Lewis, and Onuf,
Revolution of 1800,
87â120; Chernow,
Alexander Hamilton,
637â38; Wilentz,
Rise of American Democracy,
93â94 (“After discussions with two of Jefferson's supportersâthough not with the candidate himselfâBayard was persuaded that Jefferson had made specific concessions about preserving the public credit,” wrote Wilentz.)