File:Thomas Jefferson .jpg

Identifier: storyofconfedera00derr (find matches)
Title: Story of the Confederate States; or, History of the war for southern independence, embracing a brief but comprehensive sketch of the early settlement of the country, trouble with the Indians, the French, revolutionary and Mexican wars ..
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Derry, Joseph Tyrone, 1841-
Subjects: United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Confederate States of America -- History
Publisher: Richmond, Va., B.F. Johnson Publishing Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
^ towrite, print or utter anything scandalous against theCongress or President of the United States. The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions. 7. These acts and the arbitrary manner in whiclithey were enforced created great discontent and indig-nation. The legislature of Virginia, at that time thelargest and most influential State in the Union, passedresolutions drawn up by Mr. Madison, in which it wasdeclared that on entering the Union the States hadsurrendered only a portion of their powers and that,whenever the Federal Government transcended itspowers, the States should interfere and pronouncesuch acts unconstitutional. The legislature of Ken-tucky,^ one of the States admitted during Washing-tons administration, also passed a series of resolu- ^Three States were admitted during Washingtons administration,Vermont, Kentucky, and Tennessee.
Text Appearing After Image:
THOMAS .lEFKKKSON.L 5^.1 P(n,iTirs IN TiiK Hmtki) States. 53 tions (Iniwii up hy Mi-. .Icllci-soii. TIkj Iventucky reso-lutions went even faithcr tlnni those of Virginia, andmentioned nullification as a remedy. 8. So great hostility was excited against the Fede-ralist party that in the election of 1800 the Demo-cratic (also called Republican) party came into powerwith Jefferson at its head. One of the first acts of^Ir. Jefferson was to release all persons imprisonedunder the Sedition Act. He treated this act as a com-plete nullity, declaring that no one was any morebound by it than if Congress had set up a goldenimage and ordered the people to bow down to it. Heshowed his disapproval of the Alien Act in a similarmanner. 9. Purchase of Louisiana.—One of the most popularacts of Mr. Jeffersons administration was the pur-chase of Louisiana Until tliis event the Mississippiriver was the western boundary of the United States.Ever since the close of the French and Indian war,Spain had poss

Note About Images