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Article: The feuding fathers. (Thomas Jefferson and John Adams) (The First Democrat)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- February 1, 1993
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Jefferson, the third president, may have been the first true democrat
Mad Tom," the Federalists had called him. "Atheist." "Jacobin." Intriguer for France. Inciter of mobs. No matter -- as he walked from Conrad's boardinghouse to the U.S. Capitol to be sworn in as the nation's third president -- Thomas Jefferson felt conciliatory. After the cascade of calumny, after deadlocks in the Electoral College and the House of Representatives, Jefferson had triumphed. Now, at noon, March 4,1801, as 12 years of Federalist rule ended, he was magnanimous: "We have called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all republicans: we are all federalists." The ...
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