1To James Madison from William Duane, 22 February 1814 (Madison Papers)
Duane referred to Federalist attempts to suppress political opposition following John Adams’s election to the presidency and culminating in the 1798 passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts. In 1799, under the latter act, Duane was twice arrested. After being acquitted of fomenting seditious riot, he faced charges of seditious libel based on an article published in his paper, the Philadelphia
2To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 16 March 1814 (Madison Papers)
19 July 1798). For the “terror” associated with the 1798 Alien and Sedition Acts, see
3Thomas Jefferson to Wilson Cary Nicholas, 13 June 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Alien and Sedition Acts [index entry]
4William Duane to Thomas Jefferson, 15 March 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
by soliciting subscriptions in the wake of the Alien and Sedition Acts
5John Wayles Eppes to Thomas Jefferson, 20 March 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Alien and Sedition Acts [index entry]
6James Barbour to Thomas Jefferson, 14 January 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
recalled him the following year. He began his political career attacking the Alien and Sedition Acts and supporting strict-construction Republicanism, but his experience as a wartime governor altered his outlook, and he came to support protective tariffs, the
7John 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
8Thomas Jefferson to Andrew Moore, 2 October 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
, and the Alien and Sedition Acts. By TJ’s appointment, he was federal marshal for the Western District of