1Thomas Brand Hollis to Abigail Adams, 20 December 1790 (Adams Papers)
...faced increasingly strong libel and sedition laws that threatened publishers with fines...
2To George Washington from James Anderson, 6 December 1794 (Washington Papers)
...led to his conviction under the sedition law in 1800. Callender had published essays...
3From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 21 December 1794 (Madison Papers)
...-created society.” In 1798 Adams was indicted under the Sedition Law (James Morton Smith,
4To George Washington from Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, 25–28 January 1797 (Washington Papers)
...creation of numerous surveillance committees and sedition laws, which led to the imprisonment,...
5To Thomas Jefferson from James Thomson Callender, 28 September 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
...sentence that ended with the expiration of the sedition law on 3 Mch. 1801. Writing from his...
6To Thomas Jefferson from John Brown, 15 September 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
..., deprecating War, & denouncing the Alien & Sedition laws in the strongest terms, but at the...
7I. Jefferson’s Draft, [before 4 October 1798] (Jefferson Papers)
...the margin alongside this resolution he wrote “Sedition law,” changing the second word to “...
8From Thomas Jefferson to Stevens Thomson Mason, 11 October 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
...country, as I am informed, and the Alien & Sedition laws are working hard. I fancy that
9To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 26 October 1798 (Madison Papers)
...persecution embodied in the newly enacted Sedition Law led him to draft the enclosed...
10To John Adams from Charles Lee, 1 November 1798 (Adams Papers)
...will be adviseable to notice the Alien and Sedition laws but if they are noticed they may be...
11From George Washington to Alexander Spotswood, Jr., 22 November 1798 (Washington Papers)
...signature of Gracchus, on the Alien & Sedition Laws, found me at this place—deeply engaged...
12From Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor, 26 November 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
...should be for resolving the alien & sedition laws to be against the constitution & merely...
13To Thomas Jefferson from John Taylor, [before 11 December 1798] (Jefferson Papers)
...] that occasion hazarded some observations on the sedition law in general, & its tendency to...
14John Adams to Abigail Adams, 14 December 1798 (Adams Papers)
...of R. will dispute about the Alien and sedition Laws all Winter I suppose. France seems to...
15Virginia Resolutions, 21 December 1798 (Madison Papers)
...avowed that acts like the Alien and Sedition Laws would “drive these states into revolution &...
16From George Washington to William Vans Murray, 26 December 1798 (Washington Papers)
The Alien & Sedition Laws, are now the desiderata ⟨in⟩ the Oppos[it]...
17To George Washington from David Stuart, 27 December 1798 (Washington Papers)
...to the People of Richmond, respecting the Alien & Sedition Laws. By a Citizen of This...
18From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 29 December 1798 (Madison Papers)
...Result of the discussions at Richmond on the Alien & Sedition laws.
19To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 29 December 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
on the Alien & Sedition laws. It is to be feared their zeal may forget...
20From George Washington to John Marshall, 30 December 1798 (Washington Papers)
The Alien & Sedition Laws having employed many Pens—and we hear a number of...
21To James Madison from John Dawson, 2 January 1799 (Madison Papers)
effort for the repeal of the alien & sedition laws, & for bringing forth Matthew Lyon
22To James Madison from John Dawson, 7 January 1799 (Madison Papers)
...bring forward motions for the repeal of the alien & sedition laws,...Sedition Laws were read...
23To George Washington from John Marshall, 8 January 1799 (Washington Papers)
...i⟨rr⟩itation excited by the alien and sedition laws, to criminate the whole conduct of our...
24To James Madison from John Dawson, 15 January 1799 (Madison Papers)
...bring forward propositions for the repeal of the alien & sedition laws, tho
25To Alexander Hamilton from William Heth, 18 January 1799 (Hamilton Papers)
...bring in a bill, authorising persons taken up under the sedition Law,...and Sedition Laws...
26Note on the Virginia Resolutions, 10 January, and the Address of the General Assembly to the People of the Commonwealth … (Madison Papers)
...Berns, “Freedom of the Press and the Alien and Sedition Laws: A Reappraisal,” in
27From Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 23 January 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
...on the public mind. the alien & sedition laws as before, the direct tax, the...
28From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 25 January 1799 (Madison Papers)
.... C. on the subject of the Alien & Sedition laws, that great progress has been made in that...
29To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 25 January 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
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30Thomas Boylston Adams to John Quincy Adams, 28 January 1799 (Adams Papers)
...Virginia, for his opinion upon the Alien & sedition laws, (as they are stiled) and his answer...