1John Adams to Abigail Adams, 11 March 1799 (Adams Papers)
In the counties of Bucks, Montgomery, and Northampton, Penn., many German-speaking inhabitants opposed recent federal legislation, including the direct tax, the formation of a provisional army, the Alien and Sedition Acts, and a 1797 tax on stamped paper, for which see vol.
2John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 14 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Adams here conflates two of the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798. TJ regarded the Alien Friends Act, which authorized the president to deport any alien he deemed dangerous, as a