VOICES FROM AMERICA’S PAST
THE JEFFERSONIANS
1801-1829
Edited by Richard B. Morris Gouverneur Morris Professor of History Columbia University New York, New York
James Woodress Chairman, Department of English San Fernando Valley State College Northridge, California
WEBSTER PUBLISHING COMPANY
ST. LOUIS ATLANTA DALLAS
VOICES FROM AMERICA’S PAST The Beginnings of America 1607-1763 The Times That Tried Men’s Souls 1770-1783 The Age of Washington 1783-1801 The Jeffersonians 1801-1829 Jacksonian Democracy 1829-1848 The Westward Movement 1832-1889 A House Divided: The Civil War 1850-1865 (Other titles in preparation)
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
[Preface] v I Jefferson’s Administration, 1801-1809 [The Election and Inauguration] 1 [Margaret Bayard Smith Describes the Election and Inauguration] 2 [Jefferson’s First Inaugural Address] 4 [Burr Kills Hamilton] 7 [David Hosack Describes Hamilton’s Last Hours] 7 [Marbury vs. Madison] 10 [Excerpts from John Marshall’s Decision] 10 [The Louisiana Purchase] 12 [Jefferson Writes to Robert Livingston] 13 [The Lewis and Clark Expedition: Lewis’ Journal] 14 [The Embargo Act] 18 [Washington Irving Satirizes the Embargo Act] 19 II Madison’s Administration, 1809-1817 [Madison’s Inauguration] 22 [Mrs. Smith’s Report] 22 [The War of 1812] 24 [The Constitution Defeats the Guerrière: Isaac Hull] 25 [Commodore Perry Wins a Victory on Lake Erie: Oliver Perry] 27 [The British Burn Washington: Dolly Madison] 28 [The British Burn Washington: George Gleig] 30 [The Battle of New Orleans: George Gleig] 32 [The Battle of New Orleans: Andrew Jackson] 35 III James Monroe’s Administration, 1817-1825 [Early Days in the Mississippi Valley] 37 [A Husking Bee in Ohio: William Cooper Howells] 38 [Religion in Tennessee: Lorenzo Dow] 40 [Davy Crockett Runs for Office] 44 [Early Days in Illinois: Morris Birkbeck] 47 [Ominous Loomings: The Missouri Compromise, 1820] 50 [Representative Arthur Livermore Argues Against Extending Slavery] 50 [Senator James Barbour Defends Slavery] 52 [Representative James Stevens Argues for the Compromise] 53 [The Monroe Doctrine] 54 [Excerpts from the Monroe Doctrine] 54 IV John Quincy Adams [Lighthouses in the Sky] 56 [Excerpts from Adams’ First Message to Congress] 56
The selections by Margaret Bayard Smith, from Forty Years of Washington Society, edited by Gaillard Hunt, which begin on pages [2] and [22], were reprinted through the courtesy of Charles Scribner’s Sons.