[939] Pickering to King, May 4, 1799; King, iii, 13.
[940] Sedgwick to King, July 26, 1799; King, iii, 69.
[941] Sedgwick to King, July 26, 1799; King, iii, 69.
[942] Murray to J. Q. Adams, June 25, 1799; Letters: Ford, 566.
[943] Murray to J. Q. Adams, July 1, 1799; ib., 568.
[944] Jefferson to Stuart, May 14, 1799; Works: Ford, ix, 67.
[945] Jefferson to Coxe, May 21, 1799; Works: Ford, ix, 69-70.
[946] Ib., 70.
[947] For instances of these military letters, see Marshall to Washington, June 12, 1799; Washington MSS., Lib. Cong.
[948] See Morison, i, 156-57; also Hudson: Journalism in the United States, 160. Party newspapers and speakers to-day make statements, as a matter of course, in every political campaign much more violent than those for which editors and citizens were fined and imprisoned in 1799-1800. (See ib., 315; and see summary from the Republican point of view of these prosecutions in Randall, ii, 416-20.)