CINCINNATI SOCIETY MAY LEAD TO HEREDITARY CASTE

The objections of those who are opposed to the institution (Cinncinati Society) shall be brieftly sketched. You will readily fill them up. They urged that it is against the Confederation-against the letter of some of our constitutions-against the spirit of all of them;-that…

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EUROPEAN ADMIRATION FOR THE ACT OF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM

Jefferson letter to Wythe, 1786 Our act for freedom of religion is extremely applauded. The ambassadors and ministers of the several nations of Europe, resident at this court, have asked of me copies of it, to send to to their sovereigns, and it it inserted at full length …

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AGRICULTURALISTS ARE GOD’S CHOSEN PEOPLE

Jefferson notes on Virginia, Query 19 Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever He had a chosen people, whose breasts He has made His peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue, it is the focus in which he keeps alive that sacred fire, whi…

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ADVENTAGES OF AN AGRICULTURAL OVER A COMMERCIAL ECONOMY

Jefferson letter to Jay, 1785 We have now lands enough to employ an infinite number of people in their cultivation. Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous, and they are tied to their coun…

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HOPE FOR PEACE AND LIBERTY

HOPE FOR PEACE AND LIBERTY Jefferson letter to Adams,1821 I shall not die without a hope that light and liberty are on steady advance. We have seen, indeed, once within the records of history, a complete eclipse of the human mind continuing for centuries. And this, too, by…

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ESSENTIAL UNITY OF ALL THE AMERICAS

Thomas Jefferson thoughts: I hope for a cordial fraternization among all the American nations, and their coalescing in an American system of policy, totally independent of, and unconnected with that of Europe. The day is not distant when we may formally require a meredian …

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AN EXPERIMENT IN TOLERANTION

They [federalists] fill their newspapers with falsehoods, calumnies, and audacities…we are going fairly through the experiment whether freedom of discussion, unaided by coercion, is not sufficient for the propagation and protection of truth, and for the maintenance of an ad…

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