The Old Dominion and the New Nation by Richard R. Beeman

Author:Richard R. Beeman [Beeman, Richard R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, United States, State & Local, General, Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), Political Science, American Government, State, Political Process, Political Parties
ISBN: 9780813185781
Google: A0coEAAAQBAJ
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2021-10-21T22:13:21+00:00

1 For the best, if also the most polemical, treatment of the relationship between party development and foreign affairs, see Joseph Charles, The Origins of the American Party System: Three Essays (Williamsburg, 1956).

2 See, for example, Madison to Edmund Randolph, 17 Oct. 1788, in Hunt, ed., Madison’s Writings, 5: 276; Jefferson to Richard Price, 8 Jan. 1789, in Boyd, ed., Jefferson Papers, 14: 420-24; Marshall, Washington, 2: 155.

3 Jefferson to David Humphreys, Paris, 18 March 1789, in Boyd, ed., Jefferson Papers, 14: 676-79.

4 Virginia Gazette and General Advertiser, 4 Sept., 2 Oct. 1793; see also Harry Ammon, “The Formation of the Republican Party in Virginia, 1789-1796,” Journal of Southern History 19 (1953): 300-305. Ammon has done the most significant work to date in tracing the development of Republican party organization in Virginia. His articles, and his Ph.D. dissertation, “The Republican Party in Virginia, 1789 to 1824” (University of Virginia, 1948), are essential to an understanding of the intricacies of Republican party machinery.

5 Virginia Chronicle, 8 June 1793, in Link, Democratic-Republican Societies, pp. 9-10.

6 “Petition of Severn Major,” Accomac County, 6 Nov. 1790, Legislative Petitions, VSL.

7 House Journal, 12 Nov. 1790.

8 John Taylor, Enquiry into Certain Public Measures, p. 21.

9 Ibid., p. 22.

10 Virginia Gazette and General Advertiser, 21 Sept. 1799.

11 “Notebook of William Hay: Considerations of Various Subjects of Enquiry Arising Out of the 6th Article of the Jay Treaty . . . With an Appendix containing . . . a Variety of Acts of the Virginia Assembly which can be Considered as Lawful Impediments to the Collection of those Debts,” Great Britain, Public Record Office MSS, Domestic, T79/27.

12 Ibid.; Beveridge, Marshall, 2: 186-98; William Wirt Henry, Patrick Henry, 3: 601-48.

13 Marshall, although his argument in Ware versus Hylton was instrumental in helping Virginians avoid the payment of debts, was one of the first to claim that the Republicans’ hostility to Great Britain, while “cloaked in the name of patriotism,” was in fact only an excuse to avoid paying their old British debts (Virginia Gazette and General Advertiser, 30 Oct. 1793). Although no one has yet determined whether Republicans or Federalists constituted the larger portion of debtors, it seems likely, given the similarity in the composition of the two factions, that enough members of each faction were in debt to the British to make all of them less than eager to find a solution for the payment of prewar debts. A final conclusion on this question, however, must await a detailed examination into the federal court records relating to British debts and a correlation of the findings of that investigation with the partisan divisions in Virginia.

14 Henry Lee to George Washington, 2 May 1793, Lee to Thomas Newton, 22 May 1793, Lee to Henry Knox, 3 July 1793, James Wood to John Hamilton, 10 Aug. 1793, Lee to Thomas Newton, 20 Feb. 1794, Executive Letterbooks.

15 Robert Brooke to John Hamilton, 22 April 1795, Brooke to the Secretary of State, 18 May 1795, Executive Letterbooks.

16 Circular Letter of John Page to the Citizens of the District of York in Virginia, 12 May 1794, Broadsides Collection, VHS.

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