1John 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
2James 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
3John Wayles Eppes to Thomas Jefferson, 20 March 1811 (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
5To Thomas Jefferson from John Bacon, 3 March 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
...state constitution, he delivered a long, forceful address opposing a clause that barred Indians and citizens of African descent from voting. When the Massachusetts legislature debated Virginia’s resolutions against the Alien and Sedition Acts in February 1799, Bacon was the lone senator to vote against the legislature’s final report in support of the Acts, a stance that prompted one...
6To Thomas Jefferson from Henry R. Graham, 10 July 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
in Frankfort, during which time they also printed Kentucky’s resolutions opposing the Alien and Sedition Acts (Hugh H. Brackenridge,
7To Thomas Jefferson from James Barbour, 20 January 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
...the Virginia bar at the age of eighteen. Entering the House of Delegates in the term that began in December 1798, he immediately played a key role in assailing the Alien and Sedition Acts and supporting the Virginia Resolutions. Barbour’s plantation, Barboursville, was located near Montpelier, and as his early actions in the legislature demonstrated, he considered James Madison to be a...
8From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 29 December 1799 (Madison Papers)
...of the navy, oppose any law founded on the idea that the common law was in force under the government of the U.S., and promote the repeal of the Alien and Sedition Acts. The resolutions included a long introductory statement justifying the instructions; a section criticizing the Nonintercourse Act with France as particularly destructive of the tobacco trade was added before passage. The...
9To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 29 December 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
passed by the Virginia Assembly in 1798 in opposition to the Alien and Sedition Acts. He headed a committee appointed by the House of Delegates to consider the responses of the various states to the Virginia Resolutions. On 24 Dec. the committee’s report was presented to the House, which ordered that 250... ...” and renewed their protest against the Alien and Sedition Acts “as palpable...
10To Thomas Jefferson from John Breckinridge, 13 December 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
...the Kentucky House of Representatives. On 14 Nov. he introduced what became known as the Kentucky Resolution of 1799, a single resolve that reaffirmed opposition to the Alien and Sedition Acts and called “nullification” a state’s “rightful remedy.” TJ had included the latter assertion in his draft resolutions the year before, but the expression was excised before the legislature adopted...