“’Tis said”: Abigail Adams to Abigail Adams Smith, Nov. 21, 1800, LMA, 2:242.
“with the respect due”: John Adams, Nov. 22, 1800, Annals of Congress, 10:724.
“unfitness” and following: Charles Carroll of Carrollton to James McHenry, Nov. 4, 1800, LCJM, pp. 473 and 476.
“Tomorrow, the electors”: James McHenry to Oliver Wolcott, Nov. 9, 1800, Gibbs Memoirs, 2:445.
“Setting aside Pennsylvania”: Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Nov. 30, 1800, PTJ, 32:263.
“the efforts of both parties”: Centinel of Freedom, Nov. 25, 1800, p. 3.
“How disgraceful”: Newport Mercury, Nov. 15, 1800, p. S-2.
“Putting Pennsylvania”: Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Dec. 5, 1800, PTJ, 32:271.
“This I think”: Charles Pinckney to Thomas Jefferson, Nov. 22, 1800, PTJ, 32:256.
“The situation of our country”: Thomas McKean, Address, Nov. 8, 1800, in Philadelphia Gazette, Nov. 9, 1800, p. S-1.
“Could the monarchists”: Aurora, Nov. 6, 1800, p. 2.
“A gracious Providence”: Philadelphia Gazette, Nov. 11, 1800, p. 3.
“Their doctrine”: Gazette of the United States, Nov. 5, 1800, p. 2.
“Francis Gurney’s”: Aurora, Nov. 17, 1800, p. 2.
“The leading Jacobins”: Gazette of the United States, Dec. 13, 1800, p. 3.
“will have eight votes”: Aurora, Dec. 3, 1800, p. 2.
“At the time”: Theodore Sedgwick to Rufus King, Sept. 26, 1800, LCRK, 3:309.
“my situation”: Charles Pinckney to Thomas Jefferson, Nov. 22, 1800, PTJ, 32:256.
“In this dilemma”: Henry William De Saussure to friend, Dec. 4, 1800, in Newport Mercury, Dec. 30, 1800, p. 2.
“Contrary to my former advices”: Charles Cotesworth Pinckney to John Marshall, Nov. 29, 1800, PJM, 6:508.
“Gen. Pinckney is well known”: Carolina Gazette, Nov. 20, 1800, p. 2.
“The constitution and laws”: Carolina Gazette, Dec. 11, 1800, p. 3.
“I believe we may consider”: Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Dec. 12, 1800, PTJ, 32:300.
CHAPTER TEN: THE TIE
“Splendid Intelligence”: The National Intelligencer, Dec. 12, 1800, p. 2.
“It was badly managed”: Thomas Jefferson to Aaron Burr, Dec. 15, 1800, PTJ, 32:306–07.
“There will be”: Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, Dec. 19, 1800, PTJ, 32:322.
“The Feds in the legislature”: Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, Dec. 20, 1800, PTJ, 32:330.
“will be revived”: The National Intelligencer, Jan. 23, 1801, p. 4.
“Some, tho’ Federalists”: Thomas Jefferson to Martha Jefferson Randolph, Jan. 16, 1801, PTJ, 32:475.
“My personal friends”: Aaron Burr to Thomas Jefferson, Dec. 23, 1800, PCAB, 1:473–74.
“Keep the game”: Robert Goodloe Harper, Dec. 24, 1800, PCAB, 1:474.
“A drowning man”: Herald of Liberty, Jan. 5, 1801, p. 2.
“Mr. Burr would”: The National Intelligencer, Jan. 12, 1801, p. 2.
“The considerations”: Theodore Sedgwick to Theodore Sedgwick Jr., Jan. 11, 1801, PCAB, 1:482.
“There are many reasons”: Albany Centinel, Jan. 6, 1801, p. 2.
“A profligate”: Theodore Sedgwick to Alexander Hamilton, Jan. 10, 1801, PAH, 25:312.
“By persons friendly”: James A. Bayard to Alexander Hamilton, Jan. 7, 1801, PAH, 25:300.
“He must lean”: Henry Lee to Alexander Hamilton, Feb. 6, 1801, PAH, 25:331.
“I believe” and “He is a soldier”: William Hindman to James McHenry, Jan. 17, 1801, LCJM, p. 490.
“To courage”: Gouverneur Morris to Alexander Hamilton, Jan. 25, 1801, PAH, 25:329 (commenting on Federalist views of Burr).
“If Mr. Burr succeeds”: James McHenry to Rufus King, LCRK, 3:362.
“Either will be bad”: Uriah Tracy to James McHenry, Jan. 15, 1801, LCJM, p. 489.
“His very selfishness”: Theodore Sedgwick to Alexander Hamilton, Jan. 10, 1801, PAH, 25:311.
“It is fashionable”: Joseph Hale to Rufus King, Dec. 29, 1800, LCRK, 3:357.
“The Federalists”: William Hindman to James McHenry, Jan. 17, 1801, LCJM, p. 489.
“If Mr. Burr should”: Philadelphia Gazette, Jan. 5, 1801, p. 3.
“My little bark”: John Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, Dec. 17, 1800, AFP, reel 399.
“sending the last mission”: James McHenry to Rufus King, Jan. 2, 1801, LCRK, 3:346.
“The President, I am told”: Thomas Pickering to Rufus King, Jan. 5, 1801, LCRK, 3:366.
“I shall be in Quincy”: John Adams to Cotton Tufts, Dec. 28, 1801, AFP, reel 120.
“How mighty a power”: John Adams to Elbridge Gerry, Dec. 30, 1800, WJA, 9:577–78.
“turned and turned”: Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, Feb. 7, 1801, NLAA, pp. 265–66.
“There is no circumstance”: Alexander Hamilton to Oliver Wolcott, Dec. 1800, PAH, 25:286.
“has pretensions” and following: Alexander Hamilton to Oliver Wolcott, Dec. 16, 1800, PAH, 25:257.
“well” and “If there be”: Alexander Hamilton to Gouverneur Morris, Dec. 26, 1800, PAH, 25:275.
“Burr loves nothing but himself”: Alexander Hamilton to Harrison Gray Otis, Dec. 23, 1800, PAH, 25:271.
“No mortal can tell”: Alexander Hamilton to John Rutledge, Jan. 4, 1801, PAH, 25:297 (enclosure in letter).
“I beg you”: Alexander Hamilton to Theodore Sedgwick, Jan. 21, 1801, PAH, 25:328.
“Mr. Burr [is] the most unfit”: Alexander Hamilton to James A. Bayard, Dec. 27, 1800, PAH, 25:277.
“I ought certainly”: Alexander Hamilton to James A. Bayard, Jan. 7, 1801, PAH, 25:300.
“While making it”: Alexander Hamilton to James A. Bayard, Dec. 27, 1800, PAH, 25:277.
“throw out a lure”: Alexander Hamilton to Oliver Wolcott, Dec. 16, 1800, PAH, 25:258.
“They are about”: Gouverneur Morris to Robert Livingston, Feb. 20, 1801, DLGM, 2:405.
“we shall profit”: John Rutledge to Alexander Hamilton, Jan. 10, 1801, PAH, 25:309.
“giving additional fiber”: Gouverneur Morris to Robert Livingston, Feb. 20, 1801, DLGM, 2:404.
“I dread this”: Thomas Jefferson to Aaron Burr, Dec. 15, 1800, PTJ, 32:306–07.
“the richest provision”: Thomas Jefferson to Caesar A. Rodney, Dec. 21, 1800, PTJ, 32:337.
“the mines of Peru”: Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, Dec. 19, 1800, PTJ, 32:323.
“saw nothing in the law”: Jonas Platt, Jan. 21, 1801, Annals of the Congress, 10:918.
“the most striking”: Samuel Eliot Morison, in LLHGO, 1:200.
“He is extremely irritated”: James A. Bayard to Andrew Bayard, Jan. 26, 1801, “Correspondence of J.A. Bayard,” in Elizabeth Donnan, ed., “Papers of James A. Bayard, 1796–1815,” Annual Report of the American Historical Association for 1913, (Washington, Government Printing Office, 1915), 2:121.
“the most splendid diamond”: John Adams to John Lloyd, Feb. 6, 1815, WJA, 10:115.
“A few, indeed”: Albert Gallatin to Hannah Gallatin, Jan. 22, 1801, LAG, p. 255.
“I arrived here”: James A. Bayard to Richard Bassett, Jan. 3, 1801, “Correspondence of Bayard,” p. 117.
“a refectory of monks” and following: Albert Gallatin to Hannah Gallatin, Jan. 15, 1801, LAG, p. 253.
“You may suppose”: Albert Gallatin to Hannah Gallatin, Jan. 22, 1801, LAG, p. 255.
“There is a great want”: James A. Bayard to Andrew Bayard, Jan. 8, 1801, “Correspondence of Bayard,” p. 119.
“There is nobody”: James A. Bayard to Caesar A. Rodney, Jan. 8, 1801, “Correspondence of Bayard,” p. 120.
“I have concluded”: Harrison Gray Otis to Sally Foster Otis, Feb. 1, 1801, LLHGO, 1:148.
“Not one room”: Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, Nov. 21, 1800, NLAA, pp. 257–58.
“Party will believe it”: Albert Gallatin to Hannah Gallatin, Ja
n. 29, 1801, LAG, p. 258.
“The Federal City”: Albert Gallatin to Hannah Gallatin, Jan. 15, 1801, LAG, p. 254.
“Is it possible”: James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, Jan. 10, 1801, PJM, 17:453.
“substantial violations”: ibid.
“Whether the assumption” and following: Albert Gallatin, “Plan at the Time of Balloting,” [1801], WAG, 1:19.
“In case of usurpation”: Aaron Burr to Albert Gallatin, Feb. 12, 1801, LAG, p. 246.
“It was threatened”: Albert Gallatin to Henry A. Muhlenberg, May 8, 1848, LAG, p. 249.
“resistance by force”: Thomas Jefferson, The Anas, Apr. 15, 1806, WTJ (Lipscomb and Bergh), 1:452.
“We thought it best”: Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, Feb. 15, 1801, PTJ, 32:594.
“but in the event”: Thomas Jefferson to Thomas McKean, Mar. 9, 1801, WTJ (Ford), 9:206.
“Let the two candidates”: Thomas McKean to Thomas Jefferson, Jan. 10, 1801, PTJ, 332:433.
“The prerogative”: James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, Jan. 10, 1801, PJM, 17:454.
“Let them order”: Albert Gallatin, “Plan at the Time of Balloting,” [1801], WAG, 1:23.
“shall immediately”: U.S. Constitution, Art. 2, Sec. 1.
“the House shall”: “Rules for the Election of President,” Feb. 9, 1801, Annals of the Congress, 10:1010.
“We are to be shut up”: Harrison Gray Otis to Sally Foster Otis, Feb. 9, 1801, LLHGO, 1:207.
“I hear both parties”: Gouverneur Morris to Robert Troup, Feb. 1, 1801, LGM, 3:151.
“It is a chance”: Harrison Gray Otis to Sally Foster Otis, Feb. 11, 1801, LLHGO, 1:208.
“The votes having been”: The National Intelligencer, Feb. 13, 1801, p. 3.
“On the day”: Albert Gallatin to Henry A. Muhlenberg, May 8, 1848, LAG, p. 249.
“I was informed”: Benjamin Hichborn to Thomas Jefferson, Jan. 5, 1801, PTJ, 32:399.
“Mr. C’s lady”: Samuel Tyler to James Monroe, Feb. 9, 1801, “Original Letters,” William and Mary College Quarterly, 1 (1892), p. 104.
“I am far from confiding”: Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jan. 9, 1801, PTJ, 32:418.
“By the arrangements”: James A. Bayard to Samuel Bayard, Feb. 22, 1801, “Correspondence of Bayard,” p. 131.
“phalanx”: George W. Erving to James Monroe, Jan. 25, 1801, quoted in Morton Borden, The Federalism of James A. Bayard (New York: Columbia University Press, 1955), p. 87. Jefferson later used this term in this context. Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, Feb. 18, 1801, PJM, 17:467.
“A second ballot”: Robert Troup to Rufus King, Feb. 12, 1801, LCRK, 3:391. In a similar observation by a Federalist member of Congress, Leven Powell wrote to his brother on Feb. 12, “Mr. Jefferson’s friends believed that he would carry on the first ballot, and Mr. Burr’s [friends were] still more certain that if [Jefferson] failed in the first that [Burr] would ultimately succeed.” Leven Powell to Burr Powell, Feb. 16, 1801, “Correspondence of Col. Leven Powell,” John P. Branch Historical Papers of Randolph Macon College, 1 (1903), p. 250.
“The business”: George Jackson to James Madison, Feb. 5, 1801, PJM, 17:461.
“We are in conclave”: Harrison Gray Otis to Sally Foster Otis, Feb. 11, 1801, LLHGO, 1:207.
“What the Feds”: John Dawson to James Madison, Feb. 12, 1801, PJM, 17:464–65.
“Unworthy will he be”: Washington Federalist, Feb. 12, 1801, p. 2.
“All stand firm”: William Cooper to Thomas Morris, Feb. 13, 1801, MAB, 2:113.
“We request information”: James Monroe to Stephens Thomson Mason and William Cary Nicholas, Feb. 18, 1801, WJM, 3:260.
“cabal, intrigue, and hatred”: Thomas Jefferson to Maria Jefferson Eppes, Feb. 15, 1801, PTJ, 32:593.
“Representing the smallest state”: James A. Bayard to John Adams, Feb. 19, 1801, “Correspondence of Bayard,” pp. 129–30.
“In determining to recede” and following: James A. Bayard, “Deposition,” Apr. 3, 1806, Documents Relating to the Presidential Election in the Year 1801 (Philadelphia: Mifflin and Parry, 1831), p. 11.
“I have declared”: Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, Feb. 15, 1801, PTJ, 32:594.
“I have taken”: James A. Bayard to Allen McLane, Feb. 17, 1801, “Correspondence of Bayard,” p. 129.
“The clamor was prodigious”: James A. Bayard to Samuel Bayard, Feb. 22, 1801, “Correspondence of Bayard,” p. 132.
“explicitly resigns” and following: Theodore Sedgwick to Theodore Sedgwick Jr., Feb. 16, 1801, PCAB, 1:486.
“Burr has acted” and following: James A. Bayard to Richard Bassett, Feb. 16, 1801, “Correspondence of Bayard,” pp. 126–27.
“Thus has ended”: Albert Gallatin to Hannah Gallatin, Feb. 17, 1801, LAG, p. 262.
“They had but one”: Albert Gallatin to Hannah Gallatin, Feb. 19, 1801, LAG, p. 263.
“Thus ended the electoral drama”: John Cotton Smith, Correspondence and Miscellanies of the Hon. John Cotton Smith (New York: Harper, 1847), p. 220.
“This farce of life”: Gouverneur Morris to Robert Livingston, Feb. 20, 1801, DLGM, 2:404.
“Yes my beloved angel”: Harrison Gray Otis to Sally Foster Otis, Feb. 15, 1801, LLHGO, 1:208.
“I have heard”: Abigail Adams to John Adams, Feb. 21, 1801, AFP, reel 400.
“The question”: Gazette of the United States, Feb. 20, 1801, p. 2 (reprint of February 18 article from Baltimore).
“I was willing to take Burr”: James A. Bayard to Alexander Hamilton, Mar. 8, 1801, PAH, 25:344.
“We consider this”: Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, Feb. 18, 1801, PJM, 17:467.
EPILOGUE: INAUGURATION DAY, MARCH 4, 1801
“May none but”: John Adams to Abigail Adams, Nov. 2, 1800, AFP, reel 399.
“During the contest” and following: Thomas Jefferson, Mar. 4, 1801, Annals of the Congress, 10:763–64 (capitalization in original).
“I am in hopes”: Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, Mar. 7, 1801, WTJ (Ford), 9:203.
“The consolidation”: Thomas Jefferson to Levi Lincoln, July 11, 1801, WTJ (Ford), 9:268.
“I know indeed”: Thomas Jefferson to Henry Knox, Mar. 27, 1801, WTJ (Ford), 9:236.
“I consider the pure”: Thomas Jefferson to John Dickinson, July 23, 1801, WTJ (Ford), 9:281–82.
“The frenzy”: Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Paine, Mar. 18, 1801, WTJ (Ford), 9:213.
“What an effort”: Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Priestley, Mar. 21, 1801, WTJ (Ford), 9:217.
“We may now say”: Thomas Jefferson to Elbridge Gerry, Mar. 29, 1801, WTJ (Ford), 9:241.
“The storm is over”: Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Adams, Mar. 29, 1801, WTJ (Ford), 9:239.
“a revolution in”: Thomas Jefferson to Spencer Roane, Sept. 6, 1819, WTJ (Ford), 12:136.
“Party is an association”: Fisher Ames to Theodore Dwight, Mar. 19, 1801, WFA, 2:1409–11.
“Today the new” and following: John Marshall to Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Mar. 4, 1801, PJMar, 6:89.
“The Federalists”: John Adams to William Cunningham, Sept. 27, 1808, Correspondence Between Hon. John Adams and the Late William Cunningham, Esq. (Boston: True and Greene, 1823), pp. 29–30.
“You and I”: John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, July 15, 1813, AJL, 2:358.
“It is a great day” and following: Susan Boylston Adams Clark to Abigail Louisa Smith Adams Johnson, July 9, 1826, Adams-A.B. Johnson Manuscripts, Massachusetts Historical Society.
INDEX
Abolitionism
Adams, Abigail
in Executive Mansion
on Hamilton
on Jefferson-Burr deadlock
Jefferson’s correspondence with
on New York elections
in Paris
Adams, Charles
Adams, John
and Additional Army
as ambassador to Britain
assessment of political landscape by
on Burr
&nb
sp; cabinet appointments of
campaigning by
constitutional views of
in Continental Congress
death of
and Declaration of Independence,
early life of
in election of 1792
in election of 1796
and Federalist caucus
final days of presidency of
Fries and followers pardoned by
French Revolution abhorred by
Hamilton’s campaign against
High Federalist antagonism toward
and hostilities with France
and House election of president
ideological rift between Jefferson and
inauguration of
and Jefferson-Burr tie
law practice of
and Maryland elections
at Massachusetts farm
monarchism and
and move of national capital to
Washington, D.C.
and New Jersey elections
and New York elections
Northern political base of
in Paris
Adams, John
peace initiative to France of
physical appearance of
predictions of electoral vote for
reconciliation of Jefferson and
religion and
and Rhode Island elections
and Ross Bill
rumors of secret pact between Jefferson and
sacking of High Federalist cabinet members by
Sedition Act prosecutions supported by
and South Carolina elections
and slavery
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