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ALIEN AND SEDITION ACTS – The Federalist; New-Jersey Gazette. Trenton: G. Craft, printer to the State, 31 December 1798.
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ALIEN AND SEDITION ACTS – The Federalist; New-Jersey Gazette. Trenton: G. Craft, printer to the State, 31 December 1798.
A Federalist paper vehemently defends the Alien and Sedition Acts and attacks Thomas Jefferson for his association with the African American polymath Benjamin Bannecker. The front page of the present issue is consumed with a lengthy defense of the Alien and Sedition Acts, beneath the headline “Genuine Liberty of Speech and of the Press,” while taking a vicious swipe at Thomas Jefferson (on page 3), “whose attachment, objects, religion, philosophy, and morals, are wholly French...” In the editor’s opinion, Jefferson’s infamy would not only stem from “his impracticable, speculative, wicked politics,” but for his “intimacy with Benjamin Bannecker, the black...”
Four pages, folio (485 x 290 mm). (Split at vertical spine fold.)
A Federalist paper vehemently defends the Alien and Sedition Acts and attacks Thomas Jefferson for his association with the African American polymath Benjamin Bannecker. The front page of the present issue is consumed with a lengthy defense of the Alien and Sedition Acts, beneath the headline “Genuine Liberty of Speech and of the Press,” while taking a vicious swipe at Thomas Jefferson (on page 3), “whose attachment, objects, religion, philosophy, and morals, are wholly French...” In the editor’s opinion, Jefferson’s infamy would not only stem from “his impracticable, speculative, wicked politics,” but for his “intimacy with Benjamin Bannecker, the black...”
Four pages, folio (485 x 290 mm). (Split at vertical spine fold.)