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1. Jefferson Davis was elected president of the Confederacy in
2. Recall that its been only a few years since one adulterer (Jesse Jackson) was engaged in counseling another adulterer (William Jefferson Clinton) in the White House
3. (Thomas Jefferson has been radically misunderstood
4. William Jefferson Clinton, only the second President to be impeached in the one hundred thirty years since Andrew Johnson, was impeached for the wrong crimes, a classic case of the right thing having been done for the wrong reasons
5. President Jefferson Davis was behind this plot and had
6. He began his remarks to his guests by telling them that there was that night more talent in the room than any other night, other than those nights when Jefferson dined alone
7. did not know that all except one of the Confederate generals had surrendered by this time to their counterparts on the federal side, or that President Jefferson Davis was captured and imprisoned
8. Jefferson said that he would rather have a country without government than a country without newspapers (John Peter Zenger)
9. Jefferson Davis became essentially a free man after two
10. He depends on the old liberal mantra that times have changed, and since our Founders could not know about the advancements of the present era, the Constitution must remain pliable or, as Thomas Jefferson warned in 1819, „…a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary which they may twist and shape into any form they please
11. Thomas Jefferson has been radically misunderstood over the years, especially by American liberals
12. What is it about an affable scoundrel that makes us wink at improprieties or worse, legal transgressions? I‘m referring, of course, to our own President William Jefferson Clinton who, along with the First Lady, have offered us Whitewater, Madison Savings and Loan, Rose Law Firm, Cattle Options, Travelgate, Filegate, Loral Communications, Buddhist Temple Fundraisers, (the) Lincoln Bedroom, (the) mysterious ―suicide‖ of Vincent Foster, Sex Scandals and Arkansas Mafia for our consideration
13. The House of Representatives recently voted to begin impeachment proceedings against William Jefferson Clinton, a wicked man
14. Jefferson and the Haitian Revolution
15. A terrorist, for example, (read: William Jefferson Clinton) should never be pardoned based upon incontrovertible evidence that led to that conviction to begin with
16. Jefferson, once a strong critic of slavery who ended the slave trade into the US, took part in efforts to isolate Haiti, insuring its long history of future poverty
17. In 1806 Jefferson proposed and passed a ban on the US international slave trade
18. Jefferson had just become a widow
19. Washington and Jefferson sent $40,000 in aid and 1,000 weapons to help put down the Haitian Revolution
20. As president, Jefferson loaned another $300,000 to aid the French slave owners on the island
21. The US international slave trade was abolished by Jefferson and Congress in 1807, though an internal slave trade continued until abolition
22. Most of New England, the Federalist Party, and some Democrats opposed the War of 1812, and Jefferson successfully avoided war with Britain his entire time in office
23. What: The passage of the Act Prohibiting the Importation of Slaves in 1807, proposed and championed by Jefferson
24. The Number of Lives Saved: Jefferson avoided a war similar to the later War of 1812
25. Thus Jefferson and the US Navy deserve credit for cutting the slave infant mortality rate dramatically
26. Jefferson had originally criticized slavery in the Declaration of Independence, but other slave owning delegates forced that passage's removal
27. After his reelection in 1804, Jefferson, assured of his popularity, saw an opportunity to end the slave trade to the US for good
28. Banning the slave trade was an issue Jefferson devoted decades of his life to
29. While still a delegate to Virginia in colonial times, Jefferson successfully pushed for a ban on importing slaves into the state
30. Congress, again led by Jefferson, tried so only shortly after the American Revolution
31. Thus when Jefferson sent his State of the Union message to the nation in 1806, he felt confident it would be well received
32. Jefferson remained silent for most of the rest of his life due to fear his relationship with Sally Hemmings would become a public scandal
33. Jefferson had taken limits on slavery to as far as any US president ever would, until Lincoln
34. Jefferson hoped to use this as an intermediate step before war, to give public anger time to cool, and also to prepare for war should it come
35. Jefferson and his embargo became enormously unpopular
36. But that is what Jefferson chose to do
37. He was the only president between Jefferson and Lincoln to stand up to the power of slave owning elites and prevent an expansion of slavery
38. Jefferson spent his final years founding the University of Virginia
39. Jefferson Davis himself spoke at the memorial, and Tyler was given an elaborate funeral by the Confederacy
40. What is an oath? Isn’t it a claim that one will always do something or always think in a particular way? How can one honestly take an oath if one doesn’t know the future and doesn’t know if one will have the power to carry out what one has sworn to do? Isn’t taking an oath a sort of tyranny over one’s own mind, in the sense that it does not allow one to change one’s mind? What if Jefferson later decides that “eternal hostility” is not the best course of action to take? Should he break his oath and change his mind, or should he try to maintain a perma-nent state of mind and keep his oath? Isn’t it usually very difficult, if not impossible, to maintain one’s past state of mind, especially if one has new knowledge that makes it ridiculous to keep thinking in the same way?
41. Thomas Jefferson was able to imagine what would happen and warned against it
42. George Washington and Thomas Jefferson had slaves
43. The leaders, such as Jefferson, Washington, Franklin, Madison, Adams, and Hamilton were well balanced when it came to politics
44. Washington’s Life and Times, Adams and Jefferson, Jackson and the Indian Question,
45. Republicans of the time—like Madison and Jefferson
46. Why, then, would he wish to equate one of the monsters of history with Washington or Jefferson?
47. Jefferson, a Republican, would come to despise Hamilton and the implied power of the federal government
48. Separation of Church and State—A phrase once approximated (“a wall of separation”) by Thomas Jefferson in a letter to the Baptists in which he supported the freedom of an individual to worship without the influence of the state
49. President Jefferson and his Republicans were nervous about the strong central power favored by the Centrists, even though that power was necessary for our brand-new nation
50. Please ask yourself, Why? Our second president, John Adams, witnessed the battles between Jefferson and Hamilton
