“[H]uman degeneracy and misery” felt on trial as the “baneful effects of the spirit of party” and the “Principles of ‘98” took center stage for the first time: the Election of 1800!

In broad strokes, the legacy of the Revolution was in play, “between the advocates of republican, and those of kingly government.” Between a renunciation of foreign despotism and the Federalist wish to “let us no longer pray that America may become an asylum to all nations.” Between Jefferson’s desiring against “foreign entanglements” and Federalist beliefs that Republican’s wanted “to make this Country a province of France.” It all felt so much larger and defining than Jefferson telling Adams, “Were we both to die today, tomorrow two other names would be put in the place of ours, without any change in the motion of the machinery.”

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