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| No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hollis, Thomas Brand | Adams, Abigail | Thomas Brand Hollis to Abigail Adams, 20 December 1790 | 1790-12-20 | ...faced increasingly strong libel and sedition laws that threatened publishers with fines... |
| 2 | Anderson, James | Washington, George | To George Washington from James Anderson, 6 December … | 1794-12-06 | ...led to his conviction under the sedition law in 1800. Callender had published essays... |
| 3 | Madison, James | Jefferson, Thomas | From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 21 December … | 1794-12-21 | ...-created society.” In 1798 Adams was indicted under the Sedition Law (James Morton Smith, |
| 4 | Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth | Washington, George | To George Washington from Charles Cotesworth Pinckney … | ≈1797-01-25 | ...creation of numerous surveillance committees and sedition laws, which led to the imprisonment,... |
| 5 | Callender, James Thomson | Jefferson, Thomas | To Thomas Jefferson from James Thomson Callender, 28 … | 1797-09-28 | ...sentence that ended with the expiration of the sedition law on 3 Mch. 1801. Writing from his... |
| 6 | Brown, John | Jefferson, Thomas | To Thomas Jefferson from John Brown, 15 September 1798 | 1798-09-15 | ..., deprecating War, & denouncing the Alien & Sedition laws in the strongest terms, but at the... |
| 7 | Jefferson, Thomas | I. Jefferson’s Draft, [before 4 October 1798] | 1798-10-04 | ...the margin alongside this resolution he wrote “Sedition law,” changing the second word to “... | |
| 8 | Jefferson, Thomas | Mason, Stevens Thomson | From Thomas Jefferson to Stevens Thomson Mason, 11 … | 1798-10-11 | ...country, as I am informed, and the Alien & Sedition laws are working hard. I fancy that |
| 9 | Jefferson, Thomas | Madison, James | To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 26 October 1798 | 1798-10-26 | ...persecution embodied in the newly enacted Sedition Law led him to draft the enclosed... |
| 10 | Lee, Charles | Adams, John | To John Adams from Charles Lee, 1 November 1798 | 1798-11-01 | ...will be adviseable to notice the Alien and Sedition laws but if they are noticed they may be... |