1From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 24 May 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
, allowing armed vessels, private as well as public, to capture French armed cruisers preying on American shipping, were introduced on 22 May. The Philadelphia Aurora referred to them as the “war , 8:1783, 1812; Philadelphia Aurora, 25 May 1798). For TJ’s revision of the consequences of the , 21 May 1798; Philadelphia Aurora, 22 May 1798).
2From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 29 March 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
, which Charles Holt began publishing in New London in June 1797, and the Philadelphia Aurora published articles from the Middletown , 1:35, 52, 307; Philadelphia Aurora, 25 Mch., 2 Apr. 1798). See also Nos. 589, 602. On 30 Mch. and 2 Apr. 1798 the Philadelphia Aurora carried rumors of a , 8:1373–4; Philadelphia Aurora, 21, 23 Mch. 1798;
3To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 15 February 1798 (Madison Papers)
[Princeton, N.J., 1981], p. 37; for the rumor that Dayton was to be appointed secretary of war, see the Philadelphia Aurora General Advertiser
4From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 3 January 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
On 3 Jan. 1799 the Philadelphia Aurora printed carried news that assessors in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, had been threatened. Two days later, the Philadelphia Aurora noted that farmers were questioning the extravagance of the administration in supporting a house tax, a land tax, and an additional salt tax at a time when the threat of war with the French Republic had “ceased.”
5To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 3 January 1799 (Madison Papers)
, 5th Cong., 3d sess., 2488–89, 2493–2546; the debates were carried in the Philadelphia Aurora General Advertiser
6From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 16 January 1799 (Jefferson Papers)
, 9:2619–26, 2643–4, 2703–4; Philadelphia Aurora, 14, 15 Jan. 1799). For support of the assertion that Logan was the author of the memorial, see Samuel Eliot Morison, : in one sentence on 16 Jan. the Philadelphia Aurora promised that the correspondence relating to negotiations with France would be published shortly. The next day a longer piece in the same newspaper indicated that a Philadelphia...
7Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 25 March 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
The Philadelphia Aurora General Advertiser
8To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 29 March 1798 (Madison Papers)
The Sprigg resolutions were published in the Philadelphia Aurora General Advertiser
9To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 24 January 1798 (Madison Papers)
There were several reports from Boston correspondents reprinted in Philadelphia newspapers in January 1798, all of which took a dim view of the prospects for successful negotiations with France. One, for example, in the Philadelphia Aurora General Advertiser
10To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 10 May 1798 (Madison Papers)
, 7 May 1798, and in the Philadelphia Aurora General Advertiser