[399] Jefferson to Jarvis, Sept. 28, 1820, Works: Ford, xii, 162. Yet, at the time when he was founding the Republican Party, Jefferson had written to a friend that "the laws of the land, administered by upright judges, would protect you from any exercise of power unauthorized by the Constitution of the United States." (Jefferson to Rowan, Sept. 26, 1798, ib. viii, 448.)
[400] Jefferson to Gallatin, July 12, 1803, Works: Ford, x, 15-16. It should be remembered that most of the banks and the financial and commercial interests generally were determined opponents of Jefferson and Republicanism. As a sheer matter of "practical politics," the President cannot be fairly criticized for thus trying to weaken his remorseless foes.
[401] See Channing: U.S. iv, 313-14.
[402] Talleyrand to Decrès, May 24, 1803, as quoted in Adams: U.S. ii, 55.
[403] Morison: Otis, i, 262; see also Adams: U.S. ii, 56.
[404] See instructions to Livingston and Monroe, Am. State Papers, Foreign Relations, ii, 540.
[405] Adams: U.S. i, 442-43.
[406] Ib. ii, 120-28.
[407] Works: Ford, x, 3-12.
[408] American Insurance Company et al. vs. Canter, 1 Peters, 511-46, and see vol. iv, chap. iii, of this work.