item: #1 of 8 id: 10893 author: None title: A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents. Volume 1, part 3: Thomas Jefferson date: None words: 65157 flesch: 52 summary: A return of ordnance, arms, and military stores the property of the United States. 2. Returns of muskets and bayonets fabricated at the armories of the United States at Springfield and Harpers Ferry, and of the expenditures at those places; and 3. keywords: act; citizens; commerce; congress; consideration; country; course; day; december; force; general; government; house; indians; information; january; jefferson; law; legislature; letter; mississippi; nation; new; peace; public; representatives; secretary; senate; session; subject; time; treaty; united states; vessels; war; year cache: 10893.txt plain text: 10893.txt item: #2 of 8 id: 11690 author: Goodloe, Abbe Carter title: Calvert of Strathore date: None words: 98000 flesch: 70 summary: Mr. Calvert Meets Old and New Friends VII. Mr. Calvert Attends the King's Levee XII. keywords: adrienne; affairs; american; andré; assembly; aulaire; beaufort; calvert; company; country; d'azay; day; days; de st; evening; eyes; face; france; friends; general; gentlemen; good; hand; head; instant; jefferson; king; lafayette; laughing; left; legation; life; look; love; madame; madame calvert; madame de; majesties; majesty; man; monsieur; monsieur morris; morris; ned; new; paris; people; place; queen; room; royal; sir; thought; time; tis; twas; voice; washington; way; years; young cache: 11690.txt plain text: 11690.txt item: #3 of 8 id: 13911 author: Hubbard, Elbert title: Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 03 Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen date: None words: 66515 flesch: 74 summary: He had been chosen selectman to fill the place that his uncle had occupied, and when Samuel Adams incidentally dropped a remark that good men were needed in the General Court, John Hancock agreed with him. Good men who are capable are always needed. keywords: adams; america; boston; boy; british; clay; college; colonies; congress; country; day; days; england; face; fact; family; father; franklin; general; george; good; hamilton; hancock; hand; head; heart; henry; home; house; jay; jefferson; john; john adams; john hancock; law; life; lincoln; little; love; man; men; mother; new; office; people; place; president; public; right; samuel; samuel adams; school; seward; state; things; thought; time; town; united; washington; way; webster; wife; work; world; years; york; young cache: 13911.txt plain text: 13911.txt item: #4 of 8 id: 21251 author: MacNaul, Willard C. (Willard Carey) title: The Jefferson-Lemen Compact The Relations of Thomas Jefferson and James Lemen in the Exclusion of Slavery from Illinois and Northern Territory with Related Documents 1781-1818 date: None words: 20973 flesch: 63 summary: True to his promise to Mr. Lemen that slavery should {p.37} never prevail in the Northwestern Territory or any part of it, he quietly directed his leading confidential friends in Congress to steadily defeat Gen. Harrison's pro-slavery petitions for the repeal of the anti-slavery clause in the Ordinance of 1787, and his friendly aid to Rev. James Lemen, Sr., and friends made the anti-slavery contest of Bethel Church a success in saving the state to freedom. Sketch of Rev. James Lemen, Sr., by J. M. Peck........ 52 XVI. keywords: baptist; church; family; father; friends; history; illinois; james lemen; jefferson; lemen; lemen family; new; notes; peck; rev; slavery; state; territory; time; years cache: 21251.txt plain text: 21251.txt item: #5 of 8 id: 23283 author: Cooke, John Esten title: The Youth of Jefferson Or, a Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764 date: None words: 57145 flesch: 82 summary: In which Sir Asinus makes as ignominious retreat. Chapter VI. How Sir Asinus staked his garters against a pistole, and lost. keywords: asinus; belle; bouche; boy; chapter; charles; day; dear; denis; ernest; eyes; face; friend; gentleman; girl; good; hand; head; heart; hoffland; jacques; lady; laughing; little; love; lucy; man; melancholy; miss; moment; mowbray; philippa; poor; sir; sir asinus; smile; smiling; thought; time; voice; way; woman; words cache: 23283.txt plain text: 23283.txt item: #6 of 8 id: 3004 author: Johnson, Allen title: Jefferson and His Colleagues: A Chronicle of the Virginia Dynasty date: None words: 66699 flesch: 58 summary: President Jefferson had invited to dinner the new British Minister Merry and his wife, the Spanish Minister Yrujo and his wife, the French Minister Pichon and his wife, and Mr. and Mrs. Madison. Such was the programme of humdrum economy which President Jefferson laid before Congress. keywords: act; adams; administration; american; britain; british; burr; congress; country; day; end; england; europe; florida; foreign; france; french; frigate; gallatin; general; good; government; great; history; house; james; jefferson; john; life; louisiana; madison; man; message; minister; mississippi; moment; monroe; new; new england; office; orleans; peace; people; policy; power; president; president jefferson; president madison; president monroe; public; secretary; set; south; spain; spanish; territory; time; treaty; united states; war; washington; way; west; years cache: 3004.txt plain text: 3004.txt item: #7 of 8 id: 38073 author: Chinard, Gilbert title: Thomas Jefferson, the Apostle of Americanism date: None words: 184237 flesch: 57 summary: But once more Jefferson was consistent in so much as he had always maintained that what was good for America was not necessarily good for France. Unassuming and straightforward, he was at once welcomed with open arms by the New England leaders, and years later John Adams still remembered the first impression he made upon him: Mr. Jefferson came into Congress in June 1775, and brought with him a reputation for literature, science and a happy talent of composition.... keywords: adams; american; assembly; august; bill; british; burr; case; certain; colonies; commerce; committee; congress; constitution; country; day; days; december; declaration; edition; england; english; europe; european; fact; form; france; free; french; friends; general; good; government; hamilton; hand; hope; house; ibid; independence; interest; january; jefferson; jefferson papers; john; july; june; king; lafayette; law; laws; letter; library; life; little; madison; man; march; matter; memorial; memorial edition; mind; monroe; monticello; nation; national; nature; new; old; opinion; order; paris; party; people; place; point; policy; power; present; president; principles; public; question; republican; revolution; rights; second; situation; society; states; subject; system; theory; thomas jefferson; thought; time; time jefferson; treaty; united states; views; virginia; war; washington; way; world; years cache: 38073.txt plain text: 38073.txt item: #8 of 8 id: 712 author: Ellis, Edward Sylvester title: Thomas Jefferson, a Character Sketch date: None words: 43838 flesch: 62 summary: It would seem on the authority of Mrs. Randolph, the great-granddaughter of Mr. Jefferson, in her work, The Domestic Life of Thomas Jefferson, that the President rode the magnificent Wildair to the capitol, and hitched to the palisades while he went in to deliver his inaugural. Doing for them unauthorized what we know they would have done for themselves was the policy of the Federalists, and the very ground upon which Mr. Jefferson had denounced their policy and defeated them. keywords: act; adams; american; character; citizens; colonies; congress; country; day; declaration; england; fellow; france; french; general; good; government; great; henry; independence; jefferson; john; law; liberty; life; louisiana; man; new; office; people; power; president; public; revolution; right; states; thomas jefferson; time; united; virginia; war; washington; work; world; years cache: 712.txt plain text: 712.txt