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Jefferson and His Colleagues: A Chronicle of the Virginia Dynasty
JEFFERSON AND HIS COLLEAGUES,
A CHRONICLE OF THE VIRGINIA DYNASTY
By Allen Johnson
CONTENTS
JEFFERSON AND HIS COLLEAGUES
CHAPTER I. PRESIDENT JEFFERSON'S COURT
CHAPTER II. PUTTING THE SHIP ON HER REPUBLICAN TACK
CHAPTER III. THE CORSAIRS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN
CHAPTER IV. THE SHADOW OF THE FIRST CONSUL
CHAPTER V. IN PURSUIT OF THE FLORIDAS
CHAPTER VI. AN AMERICAN CATILINE
CHAPTER VII. AN ABUSE OF HOSPITALITY
CHAPTER VIII. THE PACIFISTS OF 1807
CHAPTER IX. THE LAST PHASE OF PEACEABLE COERCION
CHAPTER X. THE WAR-HAWKS
CHAPTER XI. PRESIDENT MADISON UNDER FIRE
CHAPTER XII. THE PEACEMAKERS
CHAPTER XIII. SPANISH DERELICTS IN THE NEW WORLD
CHAPTER XIV. FRAMING AN AMERICAN POLICY
CHAPTER XV. THE END OF AN ERA
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
JEFFERSON AND HIS COLLEAGUES
CHAPTER I. PRESIDENT JEFFERSON'S COURT
The rumble of President John Adams's coach had hardly died away in the distance on the morning of March 4,1801, when Mr. Thomas Jefferson entered the breakfast room of Conrad's boarding house on Capitol Hill, where he had been living in bachelor's quarters during his Vice-Presidency. He took his usual seat at the lower end of the table among the other boarders, declining with a smile to accept the chair of the impulsive Mrs. Brown, who felt, in spite of her democratic principles, that on this day of all days Mr. Jefferson should have the place which he had obstinately refused to occupy at the head of the table and near the fireplace. There were others besides the wife of the Senator from Kentucky who felt that Mr. Jefferson was carrying equality too far. But Mr. Jefferson would not take precedence over the Congressmen who were his fellow boarders.
Conrad's was conveniently near the Capitol, on the south side of the hill, and commanded an extensive view. The slope of the hill, which was a wild tangle of verdure in summer, debouched into a wide plain extending to the Potomac. Through this lowland wandered a little stream, once known as Goose Creek but now dignified by the name of Tiber. The banks of the stream as well as of the Potomac were fringed with native flowering shrubs and graceful trees, in which Mr. Jefferson took great delight. The prospect from his drawing-room windows, indeed, quite as much as anything else, attached him to Conrad's.
As was his wont, Mr. Jefferson withdrew to his study