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,...