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JEFFERSON AND HIS COLLEAGUES, A CHRONICLE OF THE
VIRGINIA DYNASTY
BY ALLEN JOHNSON

CONTENTS
I. PRESIDENT JEFFERSON'S COURT
II. PUTTING THE SHIP ON HER REPUBLICAN TACK
III. THE CORSAIRS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN
IV. THE SHADOW OF THE FIRST CONSUL
V. IN PURSUIT OF THE FLORIDAS
VI. AN AMERICAN CATILINE
VII. AN ABUSE OF HOSPITALITY
VIII. THE PACIFISTS OF 1807
IX. THE LAST PHASE OF PEACEABLE COERCION
X. THE WAR-HAWKS
XI. PRESIDENT MADISON UNDER FIRE
XII. THE PEACEMAKERS
XIII. SPANISH DERELICTS IN THE NEW WORLD
XIV. FRAMING AN AMERICAN POLICY
XV. THE END OF AN ERA
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

JEFFERSON AND HIS COLLEAGUES

CHAPTER I.
PRESIDENT JEFFERSON'S COURT
The rumble of President John Adams's coach had hardly died away in
the distance on the morning of March 4,1801, when Mr. Thomas
Jefferson entered the breakfast room of Conrad's boarding house on

Capitol Hill, where he had been living in bachelor's quarters during his
Vice-Presidency. He took his usual seat at the lower end of the table
among the other boarders, declining with a smile to accept the chair of
the impulsive Mrs. Brown, who felt, in spite of her democratic
principles, that on this day of all days Mr. Jefferson should have the
place which he had obstinately refused to occupy at the head of the
table and near the fireplace. There were others besides the wife of the
Senator from Kentucky who felt that Mr. Jefferson was carrying
equality too far. But Mr. Jefferson would not take precedence over the
Congressmen who were his fellow boarders.
Conrad's was conveniently near the Capitol, on the south side of the hill,
and commanded an extensive view. The slope of the hill,