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
2To Thomas Jefferson from James Thomson Callender, 19 November 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
...the president. The address called upon the president to retract the “rash resolution” he had made concerning the renewal of negotiations with France and to use his constitutional powers for the repeal of the Alien and Sedition Acts. Pickering’s response countered that preparations for war were necessary to keep the United States from suffering the plight of Holland, Switzerland, and...
3To 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...
4To Thomas Jefferson from James Thomson Callender, 28 September 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
...envoys to France. The communications included descriptions of French solicitation of bribes that, when read by the public, would lead to the XYZ affair and the subsequent passage of the alien and sedition acts. Upon passage of the Sedition Act, Callender fled to Virginia to avoid prosecution, staying for several months at Raspberry Plain, Steven T. Mason’s home in Loudoun County,...
5William Duane to Thomas Jefferson, 15 March 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
by soliciting subscriptions in the wake of the Alien and Sedition Acts
6To 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...
7John Wayles Eppes to Thomas Jefferson, 20 March 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Alien and Sedition Acts [index entry]
8To 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,
9From 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...
10To 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...