...• Delivered before the Senate, March 4, 1801. THOMAS JEFFERSON. LET us reflect, fellow-citizens, that having banished from our land that religious...little, if we countenance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of as bitter and bloody persecutions. During the throes and convulsions...

...which would be oppression. Let us, then, fellow-citizens, unite with one heart and one mind. Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty and even life itself are dreary things. And let us reflect that having banished from our land that religious intolerance under...

...; Hildreth, v. , p. 407 ; Randall, ii., pp. 606622. 1 Jefferson's Works, vol. iv. , pp. 353, 359. * "We have yet gained little, if we countenance a political intolerance as wicked, as despotic, as religious intolerance." — Works, viii., p. 2. 4 He seemed to expect the '...

...193 ; Hildreth, v., p. 4o7 ; Randall, ii., pp. 6o6622. 'Jefferson's Works, vol. iv., pp. 353, 359. * "We have yet gained little, if we countenance a political intolerance as wicked, as despotic, as religious intolerance." — Works, viii., p. 2. 4 He seemed to expect the '...

...To them, Jefferson turned : — " Let us unite with one heart and one mind," he entreated ; " let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection...little if we countenance a 'political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of as bitter and bloody persecutions. During the throes and convulsions...

...bled and suffered, we have yet gained little if we countenance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of as bitter and bloody persecutions....throes and convulsions of the ancient world, during the agouizing spasms of infuriated man, seeking through blood and slaughter his long-lost liberty, it was...

...differences of opinion were not differences of principle ; if he seriously wished all Americans to " restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection...liberty and even life itself are but dreary things," — he could afford to make few removals for party reasons. On the other hand, if, as he privately...

...differences of opinion were not differences of principle ; if he seriously wished all Americans to " restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection...liberty and even life itself are but dreary things," — he could afford to make few removals for party reasons. On the other hand, if, as he privately...

...then, fellow-citizens, unite with one heart and one mind," he said in his inaugural address. "Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection...liberty and even life itself are but dreary things." The "throes and convulsions of the ancient world" had reached "even this distant and peaceful shore,"...

...mere ceremony" (DEL, 20). Webster's plan to restore to social intercourse what Jefferson called the "harmony and affection without which liberty and even life itself are but dreary things" is to insure that all people grow up speaking equally (JLA, 493). Scarred by the differences of dialect...