A Compendium of the History of the United States; From the Earliest Settlements to 1872 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 Excerpt: ...verge of civil war by the tyrannical execution of those measures of the party in power, calling 13. What is said of the state of the country daring Mr. Adams' Administration? What produced the discontent? To what period was naturalization extended? How were the measures of the party in power regarded by a majority of the people? itself Federal, which were looked upon by a majority of the people as unconstitutional and tending to centralism and despotism. CHAPTER IX. ADMINISTRATION OF JEFFERSON. 4th of March, 1801--4th of March, 1809. 1. Mr. Jefferson, the third President, was inaugurated the 4th of March, 1801, at the new Capitol, in the City of Washington. He was then in the fifty-eighth year of his age. His accession to office was regarded as a complete revolution in the politics of the country, effected through the peaceful and constitutional instrumentality of the elective franchise. The doctri nes as taught by him and advocated by his friends during the canvass, were looked upon by many as not only tending to weaken the bonds of union between the States, but partaking of the licentious character of those which marked the Jacobins of France. In his thorough devotion to the cause of the right of every separate people to govern themselves as they pleased, according to the principles set forth in the Declaration of Independence, of which he was well known to be the author, it was supposed by many that he lost sight of those elements of power which were necessary in all governments to make them strong enough for their own preservation. Intense interest, therefore, was felt everywhere as to the line of policy which would be indicated in his Chapter IX.--1. When and where was Mr. Jefferson inangurated. What was his age f What is said of his accession to offic...