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All is good under Jefferson's leadership...
All is good under Jefferson's leadership...
Item # 667578
March 04, 1802
AMERICAN MERCURY, Hartford, March 4, 1802
* President Thomas Jefferson
* 1year into administration
Page 2 has a letter from the President concerning the case of Capt. Levin Jones. Jefferson believed he should be cleared of the conviction against him. It is signed in type: Thomas Jefferson.
Page 3 has a report: "It is one year...since Mr. Jefferson was inducted into the office of President...No insurrections in the last 12 months--useless offices abolished--the national debt diminished--the Churches have not been destroyed--ministers have not been put to death--Bibles, altho' plenty, are in greater demand & use, than ever--women as chaste as under the former administration, and men as virtuous--less villainy practiced, but more rogues punished."
Four pages, never bound nor trimmed with wide margins, various foxing & light damp staining, two folds.
Category: Pre-Civil War
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