[31] "This country has never been in such a state of excitement since the battle of Lexington." (Jefferson to Bowdoin, July 10, 1807, Works: Ford, x, 454; same to De Nemours, July 14, 1807, ib. 460.)
For Jefferson's interpretation of Great Britain's larger motive for perpetrating the Chesapeake crime, see Jefferson to Paine, Sept. 6, 1807, ib. 493.
[32] Adams: U.S. iv, 38.
[33] Lowell: Peace Without Dishonor—War Without Hope: by "A Yankee Farmer," 8. The author of this pamphlet was the son of one of the new Federal judges appointed by Adams under the Federalist Judiciary Act of 1801.
[34] See Peace Without Dishonor—War Without Hope, 39-40.
[35] Giles to Monroe, March 4, 1807; Anderson: William Branch Giles—A Study in the Politics of Virginia, 1790-1830, 108.
Thomas Ritchie, in the Richmond Enquirer, properly denounced the New England Federalist headquarters as a "hot-bed of treason." (Enquirer, Jan. 24 and April 4, 1809, as quoted by Ambler: Thomas Ritchie—A Study in Virginia Politics, 46.)
[36] Adams: U.S. iv, 41-44, 54.
[37] Jefferson to Leiper, Aug. 21, 1807, Works: Ford, x, 483-84.
Jefferson tenaciously clung to his prejudice against Great Britain: "The object of England, long obvious, is to claim the ocean as her domain.... We believe no more in Bonaparte's fighting merely for the liberty of the seas, than in Great Britain's fighting for the liberties of mankind." (Jefferson to Maury, April 25, 1812, ib. xi, 240-41.) He never failed to accentuate his love for France and his hatred for Napoleon.