291Editorial Note: Consular Problems (Jefferson Papers)
In the summer of 1790, shortly after Washington sent to the Senate the first group of nominees...
292Editorial Note: The Admission of Kentucky and Vermont to the Union (Jefferson Papers)
A piece of doggerel in Bache’s General Advertiser at the opening of Congress voiced the politics...
293Editorial Note: The Judicial Appointment of Joseph Anderson (Jefferson Papers)
Joseph Inslee Anderson’s first appointment to civil office initiated a long career on the bench,...
294Editorial Note: Threat of Disunion in the West (Jefferson Papers)
Early in 1791 there arose an urgent demand by Georgia planters for the return of slaves that had...
295Editorial Note: The Great Collaborators (Jefferson Papers)
The subject of that day’s dinner conversation—the French protest against the tonnage acts of 1789...
296Editorial Note: Search for a European Concert on Navigation Law (Jefferson Papers)
In March 1791 the anxiety that Hamilton and his supporters felt about the threatened enactment of...
297Editorial Note: Experiments in Desalination of Sea Water (Jefferson Papers)
There can be little doubt that Jacob Isaacks—an aged, infirm, and poor resident of Newport, but...