Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 (148 page)

Weekly Register
,
708

Weems, Mason,
353
–54,
565
–66,
612
,
717

Weld, Isaac,
317
,
328
,
511

Wertmüller, Adolph,
573

Wesley, John,
581

West, Benjamin,
483
,
545
,
550
,
555

West Florida,
7
,
366
,
368
–69,
374
–75

West Indies,
323
,
540
,
622
–23,
640
,
682
,
688

West Point,
292

Western Reserve,
605

western settlement: and cultural advancement,
546
–47

and the Federalist program,
114
–23

and the Jefferson presidency,
357
–59

and land availability,
318
–19

and the Lewis and Clark expedition,
376
–82

and the Louisiana Purchase,
368
–74

and Native Americans,
112
,
114
,
120
–23,
123
–33,
396
–99

and population growth,
316

and religion,
597

and slavery,
510
,
522

wheat cultivation,
511

Wheatley, Phillis,
41

Wheeler, Ephraim,
336

Wheelock, Eleazer,
112

Wheelock, John,
465

Whigs: and Adams,
213
,
215

antigovernment views,
10
,
19

“country-opposition” tradition,
172

and the French Revolution,
178

and monarchism,
162

and patronage,
299

and social changes,
93
–94

Whiskey Rebellion: and Democratic-Republican Societies,
162
,
164
,
203

and executive power,
196
–97

and the federal judiciary,
413
,
415
–16,
417
–18,
427

and the Federalist Party,
205

and military power,
134
–39,
263

and treason definitions,
439

and Washington,
198

White, James,
113

White House,
79
,
290
,
690
–91

“white savages,”
395
–96

Whitney, Eli,
528
,
730

Wieland
(Brown),
335

Wilkinson, James,
113
–14,
372
,
382
–85,
685

Wilkinson, Jemima,
598

William and Mary College,
344

William of Orange,
73

Williams, Joseph,
350

Williams, Samuel,
312

Williams College,
344

Williamson, Hugh,
74

Willing, Thomas,
98

Wilson, Alexander,
393
–94,
564

Wilson, James: and the Bill of Rights,
66
–67

and class divisions,
218
–19,
221
,
234

and the Constitution,
209
–10,
222

and the federal judiciary,
411
,
412
,
417
,
446
,
451
–52

and minimal government,
12

and monarchism,
74

and personal finances,
233

and public service,
25
–26,
27

and western settlement,
119

Wilson, Woodrow,
288

Winckelmann, Johann Joachim,
551

Winstanley, William,
571

Winthrop, John,
38
–39

Wirt, William,
590

Witherspoon, John,
48

Wolcott, Oliver,
205
,
211
,
233
,
435

Wolcott, Oliver, Jr.,
178
,
234
,
240
,
418

Wollstonecraft, Mary,
500
,
502
,
506

women’s issues: and the arts,
566
,
569

and benevolence,
13

and family structure,
495
–500

and literacy,
47

and religion,
598

and republicanism,
9

and social changes,
341

and social structure,
711

and women’s rights,
500
–507

Wood, Sally,
342

Worcester, Noah,
696

Wordsworth, William,
574

Wortman, Tunis,
309
,
311

Wright, Robert,
719
,
720

writs of mandamus,
440
–41

Wyandot Indians,
123
,
126
,
131

Wyatt conspiracy,
252
n31

Wyoming,
115

Wythe, George,
443

XYZ Affair,
241
–43,
312
,
435

Yale College: and Cooper,
320

and democratization,
20

and Dwight,
39
,
244
,
305
,
355
,
501
,
602

founded,
460
,
546

and Law School,
454

and Lyon,
227

and monarchism,
75

and religion,
220
,
602

and republican reforms,
492

and social changes,
343
–44

and Stiles,
17
,
394
,
547

and Whitney,
528

Yankee
(privateer),
682

Yates, Abraham,
17
,
36

Yazoo land scandal,
128
–29,
201
,
456

yellow fever,
368
,
389
–90,
726

yeoman farmers: and class divisions,
45
,
167

and cotton cultivation,
528
,
606
,
734

and Jefferson,
277
–78

and the Louisiana Purchase,
369

and Marshall,
433

and social structure,
320

and Washington,
206

and western settlement,
357

York (slave),
378

Young, Arthur,
324

Young Ladies Academy of Philadelphia,
505

Zenger, John Peter,
259
,
260

1
. Washington Irving,
The Sketch Book
, in
Washington Irving: History, Tales and Sketches
, ed. James W. Tuttleton (New York, 1983), 770–81.

2
. Jeffrey Rubin-Dorsky,
Adrift in the Old World: The Psychological Pilgrimage of Washington Irving
(Chicago, 1988), 74–75.

3
.
Niles’ Weekly Register
, 9 (1815), 238.

4
. Irving,
The Sketch Book
, in Tuttleton, ed.,
Washington Irving
, 789.

1
. William Stephen Smith to TJ, 9 Jan. 1788,
Papers of Jefferson
, 12: 501.

2
. Thomas Lee Shippen to William Shippen, 14 Feb.–26 March 1788,
Papers of Jefferson
, 12: 502–4; Gordon S. Wood,
The Creation of the American Republic, 1776–1787
(Chapel Hill, 1969), 46–47.

3
. David Ramsay,
A Dissertation on the Manner of Acquiring the Character and Privileges of a Citizen of the United States
(Charleston, SC, 1789), 3. On the Revolution’s creation of a new volitional allegiance of citizenship, see James H. Kettner,
The Development of American Citizenship, 1608–1870
(Chapel Hill, 1978), 173–209.

4
. Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Packet
, 26 Nov. 1776.

5
. Jefferson’s “original Rough draught” of the Declaration of Independence,
Papers of Jefferson
, 1: 423.

6
. George V. Taylor, “Noncapitalist Wealth and the Origins of the French Revolution,”
AHR
, 62 (1967), 469–96; William Doyle,
Origins of the French Revolution
(Oxford, 1980), 17–18.

7
. Wood,
Creation of the American Republic
, 544.

8
. TJ to Henry Lee, 8 May 1825,
Jefferson: Writings
, 1501.

9
. Lynn Hunt,
Inventing Human Rights
(New York, 2007), 19.

10
. William Byrd, “History of the Dividing Line . . . 1728,” in Louis B. Wright, ed.,
The Prose Works of William Byrd of Westover
(Cambridge, MA, 1966), 221; Fauquier to Jeffrey Amherst, 5 Oct. 1760, in Julie Richter, “The Impact of the Death of Governor Francis Fauquier on His Slaves and Their Families,”
Colonial Williamsburg Interpreter
18, no. 3 (Fall 1997), 2.

11
. John Andrews,
A Sermon on the Importance of Mutual Kindness
(Philadelphia, 1790), 14.

12
. Mark A. Noll, “Common Sense Traditions and American Evangelical Thought,”
American Quarterly
, 37 (1985), 218; TJ to Peter Carr, 10 Aug. 1787,
Papers of Jefferson
, 12: 15.

13
. Thomas Paine,
Common Sense
(1776), in Philip S. Foner, ed.,
The Complete Writings of Thomas Paine
(New York, 1969), 1: 4.

14
. TJ to Marbois, 5 Dec. 1783,
Papers of Jefferson
, 6: 374.

15
. Geoffroy Atkinson,
The Sentimental Revolution: French Writers of 1690–1740
(Seattle, 1966); Norman S. Fiering, “Irresistible Compassion: An Aspect of Eighteenth-Century Sympathy and Humanitarianism,”
Journal of the History of Ideas
, 37 (1976), 199–212; John B. Radner, “The Art of Sympathy in Eighteenth-Century British Moral Thought,”
Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture
, 9 (Madison, WI, 1979), 189–210; Andrew Burstein,
Sentimental Democracy: The Evolution of America’s Romantic Self-Image
(New York, 1999).

16
. James Wilson, “Lectures on Law” (1790–1791),
The Works of James Wilson
, ed. Robert Green McCloskey (Cambridge, MA, 1967), 1: 213.

17
. David Hume, “of Commerce,”
Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary
, ed. Eugene F. Miller (Indianapolis, 1985), 262–63.

18
. Jan Lewis, “The Republican Wife: Virtue and Seduction in the Early Republic,”
WMQ
, 44 (1987), 689–721.

19
. Wood,
Creation of the American Republic
, 117.

20
. “Amicus Republicae,”
Address to the Public
(Exeter, NH, 1786), in Charles S. Hyneman and Donald S. Lutz, eds.,
American Political Writing During the Founding Era, 1760–1805
(Indianapolis, 1983), 1: 644.

21
. Charleston
South Carolina Gazette and General Advertiser
, 9 Aug. 1783; John Jay to GW, 27 June 1786, in Henry P. Johnston, ed.,
The Correspondence and Public Papers of John Jay
(New York, 1890–93), 3: 204–5.

22
. BR TO David Ramsay, [March or April 1788],
Letters of Rush
, 1: 454; GW to Jay, 1 Aug. 1786, 18 May 1786, in Fitzpatrick, ed.,
Writings of Washington
, 28: 503, 431–32.

23
. Charles Thomson to TJ, 6 April 1786,
Papers of Jefferson
, 9: 380; Charleston
South Carolina Gazette and Public Advertiser
, 18–21 May 1785.

24
. Editorial Note,
Papers of Jefferson
, 9: 208.

25
. JM to TJ, 24 Oct. 1787,
Papers of Jefferson
, 12: 276.

26
. Jackson Turner Main, “Government by the People: The American Revolution and Democratization of the Legislatures,”
WMQ
, 23 (1966), 391–407; Rosemarie Zagarri,
The Politics of Size: Representation in the United States, 1776–1850
(Ithaca, 1987).

27
. Alfred F. Young,
The Democratic Republicans of New York: The Origins, 1763–1797
(Chapel Hill, 1967), 40, 27.