1From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Pendleton, 2 April 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
...House of Representatives on 30 Mch. and 2 Apr. 1798, addressing that issue and appealing for a peaceful resolution of the strained relations between the United States and France. In the weeks that followed, other towns in Massachusetts and elsewhere sent similar memorials to Congress, and by the end of April a countering movement of petitions from locales in support of the administration’...