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...