The essential Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson (Author), Albert Fried (Editor)
Biography
576 pages ; 18 cm
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pt. I. EARLY YEARS: 1743-1774 :
Introduction
A More Universal Acquaintance
To John Harvie, January 14, 1760
Overwhelmed with Misfortunes
To John Page, December 25, 1762
Perfect Resignation
To John Page, July 15, 1763
My Strange Confusion
To John Page, October 7, 1763
I Do Not Like the Ups and Downs of a Country Life
To William Fleming [ca. October 1763]
Many and Great Are the Comforts of a Single State
To William Fleming, March 20, 1764
Let Him Employ His Time for Himself Alone
To Thomas Turpin, February 5, 1769
Happy Ruler of a Free and Happy People
Resolution for an Answer to Governor Botetourt's Speech, May 8, 1769
pt. II. REVOLUTIONIST: 1774-1778 :
Introduction
Deal Out to All Equal and Impartial Right
Summary View of the Rights of British America, August 1774
A Phrensy of Revenge
To Dr. William Small, May 7, 1775
For Us, Not for Them, Has Government Been Instituted Here
Virginia Resolutions on Lord North's Conciliation Proposal, June 10, 1775
This Great Decision
Declaration of the Causes and Necessity for Taking Up Arms, July 6, 1775
Our Real Determinations
To John Randolph, August 25, 1775
The Rights of Nations
Declaration on the Treatment of Ethan Allen, January 2, 1776
New-Modelling the Form of Government
the Virginia Constitution, before June 13, 1776
These United Colonies Are Free and Independent States
Notes of Proceedings in the Continental Congress, June 7 to August 1, 1776
To Assume Among the Powers of the Earth a Separate and Equal Station
Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776
Shall Have Full Power to Pass, Convey or Use
A Bill to Enable Tenants in Free Tail to Convey Their Lands in Fee Simple, October 14, 1776
A Church Is a Voluntary Society of Men
Notes on Locke and Shaftesbury, 1776
The Favorite Passion of My Soul
To Giovanni Fabbroni, June 8, 1778
pt. III. LEGISLATOR AND GOVERNOR : 1779-1781 :
Introduction
The Protection of the Law
A Bill Concerning Slaves (chapter 51), 1779
The Natural Right of Seeking Subsistence and Happiness
A Bill Declaring Who Shall Be Deemed Citizens (chapter 55), 1779
To Restrain Such Criminal Acts
A Bill for Proportioning Crimes and Punishments (chapter 64), 1779
To Illuminate the Minds of the People at Large
A Bill for the More General Diffusion of Knowledge (chapter 79), 1779
By Indulging the Researches of the Learned and Curious
A Bill for Establishing a Public Library (chapter 81), 1779
The Opinions of Men Are Not the Objects of Civil Government
A Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom (chapter 82), 1779
Such a One May Keep Us Above Water
To Richard Henry Lee, September 13, 1780
This Shameful Desertion
To George Washington, with a Narrative of the Battle of Camden, September 3, 1780
Oppressed with the Labors of My Office
To Washington, May 28, 1781
I Have Taken My Final Leave of Every Thing
To Edmund Randolph, September 16, 1781
These Intimations Hanging over Our Head
Charges by George Nicholas with Jefferson's Answers, [after July 31, 1781]
The Tool Worked with by Another Hand
To Isaac Zane, December 24, 1781
pt. IV. NOTES ON VIRGINIA : 1781-1782 :
Introduction
In Answer to Certain Queries
Notes on Virginia, 1781-1782
pt. V. DELEGATE AND MINISTER : 1783-1789
Introduction
On An Equal Footing
The Western Territory, March 1784
The Most Easy Ratio Is by Ten
Notes on the Establishment of a Money Unit, and of a Coinage for the United States, April 1784
Encourage All your Virtuous Dispositions
To Peter Carr, August 19, 1785
The Most Valuable Citizens
To John Jay, August 23, 1785
The Laboring People Began to be Alarmed at This New Institution
The Society of Cincinnati, June 22, 1786
The People Alone Can Protect Us Against These Evils
To George Wythe, August 13, 1786
The Paroxysm Can Never Return
To Maria Cosway, October 12, 1786
It Is a Medicine Necessary for the Sound Health of Government
To James Madison, January 30, 1787
They Are Like Pure Metal
To Madison, June 20, 1787
The Tree of Liberty Must be Refreshed with the Blood of Patriots and Tyrants
To William Stephen Smith, November 13, 1787
The Will of the Majority Should Prevail
To James Madison, December 20, 1787
There Is a Great Deal of Good in It
To Washington, May 3, 1788
By Way of Supplement
To James Madison, March 15, 1789
To Avoid the Ill Which Seems to Threaten
To Rabaut Saint-Etienne, June 3, 1789
The Earth Belongs to Usufruct to the Living
To James Madison, September 6, 1789 pt. VI. SECRETARY OF STATE : 1790-1793
Introduction
The Only Sure Guardian of the Rights of Man
Response to the Address of the Citizens, February 12, 1790
A Puzzle and a Machine
Anas, February 4, 1818
Convenience Cannot Constitute Necessity
Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank, February 15, 1791
We Have Differed As Friends
To John Adams, July 17, 1791
It Is Not Near Enough for My Wishes
To Martha Jefferson Randolph, January 15, 1792
They Had Chained It About our Necks
Anas, February 28
March 1, 1792
This Is the Event at Which I Tremble
To George Washington, May 23, 1792
Go on Doing with Your Pen
To Thomas Paine, June 19, 1792
His System Flowed from Principles Adverse to Liberty
To George Washington, September 9, 1792
A Numerous Sect
Anas, October 1, 1792
The Arm of the People
To William Short, January 3, 1793
A Corrupt Squadron of Voters in Congress
Anas, February 7, 1793
The Source of All Authority
Opinion on French Treaties, April 28, 1793
A Manly Neutrality
To James Madison, May 13, 1793
His Paper Has Saved Our Constitution
Anas, August 2, 1793
I Would Have Chosen Them to be Doubtful
Anas, November 18, 28, 1793
pt. VII. DEMOCRATIC-REBUBLICAN ; 1794-1801 :
Introduction
They Will Triumph Completely
To Tench Coxe, May 1, 1794
The Glittering of Crowns and Coronets
To James Madison, December 28, 1794
Two Parties Then Do Exist
Notes on Christoph Daniel Ebeling's Letter of July 30, 1795
A Burst of Dissatisfaction
To James Monroe, September 6, 1795
Their Heads Shorn by the Harlot England
To Phillip Mazzei, April 24, 1796
This Has Never Been from Under My Own Lock and Key
To George Washington, June 19, 1796
The Only Sure Barrier
To James Madison, January 1, 1797
It Could Not Brook Contradiction
To Archibold Stuart, January 4, 1797
My Zealous Attachment to the Constitution
Vice Presidential Inaugural Address, March 4, 1797
He Returned to His Former Party Views
Anas, March 2
6, 1797
That There Were an Ocean of Fire Between Us
To Elbridge Gerry, May 13, 1797
Against All Popular Storms and Passions
Anas, February 15, 1798
Will the Evil Stop There?
To John Taylor, June 1, 1798
To Nullify of Their Own Authority
The Kentucky Resolutions, November 1798
There, My Friend, Are My Principles
To Elbridge Gerry, January 26, 1799
Doing Nothing Which May Hoop Them Together
To Madison November 26, 1799
Signs of It Will Be Their Respect for You
To Joseph Priestley, January 27, 1800
This Simple and Economical Mode of Government
To Gideon Granger, August 13, 1800
I Have Sworn upon the Alter of God ..
To Dr. Benjamin Rush, September 23, 1800
I Avoid Giving Any answer
Anas, April 15, 1806
I Will Give to That Will a Faithful Execution
Reply to Notification of Election, February 20, 1801
pt. VII. PRESIDENT : 1801
1809 :
Introduction
We Are All Republicans, We Are All Federalists
First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1801
The Band Is Removed
To John Dickinson, March 6, 1801
Sentiments Worthy of Former Times
To Thomas Paine, March 18, 1801
The Barbarians Really Flattened Themselves
To Joseph Priestley, March 21, 1801
The Storm Is Over, and We Are in Port
To Samuel Adams, March 29, 1801
Their Total Exclusion Calls for Prompter Corrections
To a Committee of the Merchants of New Haven, July 12, 1801
I Have Begun the Reduction of What Was Deemed Necessary
First Annual Message to Congress, December 8, 1801
A Haven for the Oppressed
To Mazzei, December 30, 1801
To Restore to Man All His Natural Rights
Reply to a Committee of the Danbury, Connecticut Baptist Association, January 11, 1802
From That Moment We Must Marry Ourselves to the British Fleet and Nation
To Robert R. Livingston, April 18, 1802
Even to the Western Ocean
Confidential Message to Congress on a Western Exploring Expedition, January 18, 1803
Love, Charity, Peace
To Dr. Benjamin Rush, April 21, 1803
Let Us Receive Them
Article on Conciliation with the Federalists, June 1, 1803
I Prefer That Which Is Safe and Precise
To Wilson C. Nicholas, September 7, 1803
The Property and Sovereignty of All Louisiana
Third Annual Message, October 17, 1803
All Are Perfectly Equal
Rules of Etiquette in Washington, November [7], 1803
Morality Listens to This
To Jean Baptiste Say, February 1, 1804
Proofs of My Great Respect for You
To Mrs. John Adams, September 11, 1804
The Disposition to Be Just
To William Burwell, January 28, 1805
Facts Are Piercing Through
Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1805
New Principles Have Been Interloped into the Law of Nations
Fifth Annual Message, December 3, 1805
You Must Not Commit Yourself to Him
To James Monroe, May 4, 1806
The Articles of Public Care
Sixth Annual Message, December 2, 1806
To Depart from the Same
Chesapeake Proclamation, July 2, 1807
These Aggravations
Seventh Annual Message, October 27, 1807
The Principles of Humanity
To Messrs. Thomas, Ellicot, et al., November 13, 1807
To Do No Act Which Shall Impair that Principle
To The Representatives of The New Jersey Legislature, December 10, 1807
The Manufacturer and Husbandman Side by Side
To The Society of Tammany, or Columbian Order No. 1, of the City of New York, February 29, 1808
A Crop of Sudden and Rank Growth
to Gallatin, August 16, 1808
The Moderation and Firmness Which Govern Our Councils
Eighth Annual Message, November 8, 1808
We Have Suffered Some Loss
Reply to Taber Fitch, November 21, 1808
Get by Them As You Would by an Angry Bull
To Thomas Jefferson Randolph, November 24, 1808
You Will Unite Yourselves with Us
To Captain Hendrick, The Delawares, Mohlcans, and Munries, [n.d.]
On an Equal Footing
To M. Henri Gregoire, Eveque et Senateur a Paris, February 25, 1809
The Hermit of Monticello
To M. Du Pont de Nemours, March 2, 1809 pt. IX. MONTICELLO : 1809-1826
Introduction
On Your Verdict I Rest
To the Inhabitants of Albemarle County, April 3, 1809
Everything Which Has Passed Between Us
To Dr. Benjamin Rush, January 16, 1811
Their Minds Keep Pace with Their Bodies
To Dr. Benjamin Rush, August 17, 1811
You and I Have Been Wonderfully Spared
To John Adams, January 21, 1812
A Man of Debate Only
On Patrick Henry, 1812, 1824
An American Dialect Will be Formed
To John Waldo, August 16, 1813
The Grounds of This Are Virtue and Talents
To John Adams, October 28, 1813
A Wise, a Good, and a Great Man
On George Washington, January 2, 1814
Your Solitary but Welcome Voice
to Edward Coles, August 25, 1814
Every Branch of Science
to Peter Carr, September 7, 1814
Experience Has Taught Me
to Benjamin Austin, January 9, 1816
More or Less of This Ingredient
To John Taylor, May 28, 1816
I Am Not Among Those Who Fear the People
to Samuel Kercheval, July 12, 1816
There Would Never Have Been an Infidel
To Mrs. Samuel Harrison Smith, August 6, 1816
Not Now Very Distant
To Abigail Adams, January 11, 1817
Your Heavy Affliction
To John Adams, November 13, 1818
I Have Lived Temperately
To Dr. Vine Utley, March 21, 1819
I Too Am an Epicurean
To William Short, October 31, 1819
A Fire Bell in the Night
To John Holmes, April 22, 1820
The General Religion
To James Smith, December 8, 1822
That Wholesome Distribution of Powers
To William Johnson, June 12, 1823
Through the Ocean of Time
To President James Monroe, October 24, 1823
Nothing Then Is Unchangeable but the Inherent and Unalienable Rights of Man
To Major John Cartwright, June 5, 1824
Your Benefactor in Peace As Well As in War
Speech on Lafayette, November 4, 1824
Take Care of Me When Dead
To James Madison, February 17, 1826
The Choice We Made
To Roger C. Weightman, June 24, 1826