History Shall Make Us Free

Letter from THOMAS JEFFERSON to John Taylor, 6/4/1798.

"A little patience, and we shall see the reign of Witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the People, recovering their true sight, restore their Government to its true Principles.

It is true that in the meantime we are suffering deeply in spirit, and incurring *the horrors of a War, and long oppressions of enormous public debt.

If the game runs sometimes against us at home, we must have patience till luck turns, and then we shall have an opportunity of winning back the Principles we have lost, for this is a game where Principles are at stake."

by William Floyd

THOMAS JEFFERSON (Virginia) wrote this letter to John Taylor from Philadelphia, after passage of President John Adams’ Alien and Sedition Acts.

The 1798 Alien and Sedition Acts were devised by the Boston Federalists under John Adams (second U.S. President) to cancel the financial assistance revolutionary France granted Thomas Jefferson. This Jefferson-France connection was based on a friendship started with Lafayette’s heroic help trapping and defeating British General Howe at Brandywine. Gen. Howe’s capture ended our patriotic American Revolutionary War.

Under the Federalist Alien and Sedition Acts many Francophile friends of Thomas Jefferson were arrested, journalists were handcuffed for criticizing Adams’ rule, and political opponents were dragged from their homes during elections and locked up until the election had ended.

These Federalist excesses led to a crushing defeat for the Boston-based Adams Party in 1800, and a landslide victory for Thomas Jefferson’s unfortunatetly pro-slavery Party. (The Jeffersonian victory was also partially based on 3/5 vote for each Slave granted to each Slaveowner.) This Slavery "compromise" allowed the Southern states to control the Federal Government for most of our first Century. “Seniority rules” then permitted the racist dominated Southern states to control Congress ever since. Thomas Jefferson (Virginia) was our 3rd President. Most Presidents have come from the South. Truman (Missouri), Lyndon Johnson (Texas), Nixon and Reagan (Southern California), Jimmy Carter (Georgia), Clinton (Arkansas), Bush I & II (Texas).

“History shall make us free”

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