The Jefferson Lies (33 page)

42
. Walter V. Robinson, “Professor's Past in Doubt Discrepancies Surface in Claim of Vietnam Duty,”
Boston Globe
, June 18, 2001, A1.
See also
Dennis Loy Johnson, “The History Lesson of Joseph Ellis,” Mobylives.com, June 20, 2001, accessed October 24, 2011,
http://www.mobylives.com/Joseph_Ellis.html
.

43
. Johnson, “The History Lesson of Joseph Ellis.”

44
. “Review & Outlook: Founding Fatherhood,”
Wall Street Journal
, February 26, 1999, W15.

45
. Veith, “Founder's DNA Revisited,” 24.

46
. Charen, “Was Jefferson Libeled by DNA?”

47
. “DNA Test Fails to Link Jefferson, Monticello Slave Descendant,”
Washington Post
, March 23, 2000. Additionally, on March 20, 2000, our WallBuilders office personally spoke with Dr. Eugene Foster, who had conducted the testing, to affirm that his most recent testing had again proved that Thomas Jefferson was
not
the father of Thomas Woodson. Dr. Foster confirmed that such was the case.

48
. Madison Hemings, “Life Among the Lowly,”
Pike County (Ohio) Republican
, March 13, 1873, in Gordon-Reed,
Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings
, 246.

49
. Hemings, “Life Among the Lowly,” 247.
See also
Dumas Malone,
Jefferson and His Time: Jefferson the Virginian
, vol. 1 (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1948), 384; Malone,
Jefferson and His Time: The Sage of Monticello
, 6:xv, 146.

50
. Gordon-Reed,
Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings
, 259.

51
. Letter from Ellen Randolph Coolidge to Joseph Coolidge on October 26, 1858, original on file at the University of Virginia Library; David N. Myer, “The Thomas Jefferson-Sally Hemings Myth and the Politicization of American History,” Ashbrook Center, April 9, 2001, accessed October 24, 2011,
http://www.ashbrook.org/articles/mayer-hemings.html
.

52
. Jan Lewis, “Introduction,”
The William and Mary Quarterly
, 3rd ser., vol. 7, no. 1 (January 2000), 122.

53
. Ellis, “Jefferson: Post-DNA,” 136–137, n15.

54
. Allen Johnson ed.,
Dictionary of American Biography
(New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929), s.v. “James Thomson Callender.”

55
. Jefferson,
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson
, ed. Oberg, 30:583.

56
. James Madison,
The Papers of James Madison. Secretary of State Series
, ed. Robert J. Brugger, vol. 1 (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1986), 117; Jefferson,
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson
, ed. Oberg, vol. 33, 573–574.

57
. Thomas Jefferson,
Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies
, ed. Thomas Jefferson Randolph, vol. 4 (Charlottesville: F. Carr, and Co., 1829), 23.

58
. James Madison,
Letters and Other Writings of James Madison
, vol. 2 (Philadelphia: J. P. Lippincott & Co., 1865), 172.

59
. Thomas Jefferson,
The Works of Thomas Jefferson
, ed. Paul Leicester Ford, vol. 9 (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1900), 260.

60
. Jefferson,
The Works of Thomas Jefferson
, ed. Ford, 9:262–263.

61
. James Monroe,
The Writings of James Monroe
, ed. Stanislaus Murray Hamilton, vol. 3 (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1900), 289.

62
. Madison,
Letters and Other Writings of James Madison
, 2:173.

63
. Ibid.

64
. Monroe,
The Writings of James Monroe
, ed. Hamilton, 3:290.

65
. Madison,
The Papers of James Madison
, ed. Brugger, 1:117.

66
. Ibid.

67
. Allen Johnson, ed.,
Dictionary of American Biography
(New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929), s.v. “James Thomson Callender.”

68
. Malone,
Jefferson the President, First Term, 1801-1805
, 4:220, n43.

69
. Malone,
Jefferson the President, First Term
, 4:208.

70
. J. T. Callender, “The President Again,”
The Recorder; Or, Lady's and Gentleman's Miscellany
(Richmond), September 1, 1802.

71
. Ibid.

72
. Ibid., December 8, 1802.

73
. Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, “Report of the Research Committee on Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings,” Monticello, January 2000, accessed October 25, 2011,
http://www.monticello.org/sites/default/files/inline-pdfs/jefferson-hemings_report.pdf
.

74
. J. T. Callender, “More about Sally and the President,”
The Recorder; Or, Lady's and Gentleman's Miscellany
(Richmond), September 22, 1802.

75
. Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, “Report of the Research Committee on Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings.”

76
. Ibid.

77
. J. T. Callender, “The President Again,”
The Recorder; Or, Lady's and Gentleman's Miscellany
(Richmond), September 1, 1802.

78
. J. T. Callender,
The Prospect Before Us
, vol. 1 (Richmond: 1800), 27, 34, passim.

79
. Ibid., 4, 9, 18, 22, 24, 26–28, 32, 34, and passim.

80
. Malone,
Jefferson the President, First Term, 1801–1805
, 4:207.

81
. James Truslow Adams,
The Living Jefferson
(New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936), 315.

82
. Virginius Dabney,
The Jefferson Scandals: A Rebuttal
(New York: Dodd, Mead, & Company, 1981), 15.

83
. Malone,
Jefferson the President, First Term
, 4:212.

84
. John Chester Miller,
The Wolf by the Ears: Thomas Jefferson and Slavery
(New York: The Free Press, 1977), 153.

85
. Ibid., 154.

86
. Benjamin Ellis Martin, “Transition Period of the American Press,”
Magazine of American History
17 (January–June 1887), 285.

87
. Ibid., 285–286.

88
. Thomas Jefferson,
The Works of Thomas Jefferson
, ed. Paul Leicester Ford, vol. 10 (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1905), 368.
See also
Thomas Jefferson,
Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies
, ed. Thomas Jefferson Randolph, vol. 4 (Boston: Gray and Bowen, 1830), 129.

89
. Charles Warren,
Odd Byways in American History
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1942), 127.
See also
Malone,
Jefferson and the Ordeal of Liberty
, 3:479.

90
. Malone,
Jefferson the President, First Term, 1801–1805
, 4:206.

91
. Jefferson,
The Works of Thomas Jefferson
, ed. Ford, 11:366.

92
. Jefferson,
The Writings of Thomas Jefferson
, ed. Lipscomb, 11:155.

93
. Jefferson,
Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies
, ed. Randolph, 4:129.

94
. Ibid., 3:439.

95
. Kenneth Chang, “DNA Tests Sheds Light on Old Scandal: Jefferson Fathered Slave Son,” ABC News, November 5, 1998.

96
. Jefferson,
Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies
, ed. Randolph, 3:494–495.

97
. Ibid., 4:23.

98
. Ibid., 4:129; Thomas Jefferson,
Thomas Jefferson Correspondence: Printed from the Originals in the Collections of William K. Bixby
, ed. Worthington Chauncey Ford (Boston: Plimpton Press, 1916), 115.

99
. Brodie,
Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History
, 229.

100
. Ibid.

101
. University of Texas/Texas State Historical Association, “Southwestern Historical Quarterly: A. W. Moore, A Reconnaissance in Texas in 1846,” University of Texas, accessed March 10, 2011,
http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth117142/m1/278
; emphasis added.

102
. Alfred Theodore Andreas,
A.T. Andreas Illustrated Historical Atlas of the State of Iowa
(Andreas Atlas Co., 1875), 468; emphasis added.

103
. James V. Drake,
An Historical Sketch of Wilson County, Tennessee, from Its First Settlement to the Present Time
(Nashville: Tavel, Eastman & Howell, 1879), 10; emphasis added.

104
. Alfred Theodore Andreas,
History of the State of Kansas
, ed. William C. Cutler (Chicago: A. T. Andreas, 1883), 486; emphasis added.

105
.
Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Fulton County, Arkansas
(1889; repr. Higginsville, MO: Hearthstone Legacy Publications, 2004), 261; emphasis added..

106
. Willard Sterne Randall,
Thomas Jefferson: A Life
(New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1994), 476.

107
. Gary Wills, “Uncle Thomas's Cabin,”
New York Review of Books
, April 18, 1974.

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1
. Dr. Daryl Cornett, David Barton, William Henard, and John Sassi,
Christian America? Perspectives on Our Religious Heritage
(Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 2011, 289–290.

2
. Anita Vickers,
The New Nation
(Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002), 74.

3
. Leonard Levy,
Jefferson and Civil Liberties: The Darker Side
(Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1989), 15.

4
. John S. Brubacher and Willis Rudy,
Higher Education in Transition: A History of American Colleges and Universities
(New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books, 2004), 147–148.

5
. Thomas Jefferson,
The Works of Thomas Jefferson
, ed. Henry A. Washington, vol. 1 (New York: Townsend Mac Coun., 1884, 2.

6
. George Marsden,
The Soul of the American University
(Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1994), 59.

7
. Gaillard Hunt,
The Life of James Madison
(New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1902), 13.

8
.
Case of Fries
, 9 Fed. Cas. 826, no. 5, 126 (C.C.D. Pa. 1799).

9
. Thomas Jefferson,
The Writings of Thomas Jefferson
, ed. Andrew A. Lipscomb, vol. 12 (Washington, DC: The Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association, 1904), 392.

10
. Sir William Blackstone,
Commentaries on the Laws of England
, vol. 1 (Philadelphia: Robert Bell, Union Library, 1771), 39–43.

11
. Henry Sage, “The Enlightenment in America,” Academic American, 2007, accessed October 24, 2011,
http://www.academicamerican.com/colonial/topics/enlighten.htm
.

12
. “Product of the Enlightenment,” The Academy of Natural Sciences, accessed February 23, 2011,
http://www.ansp.org/museum/jefferson/otherPages/enlightenment.php
.

13
. “Enlightenment Ideas and Philosophers,” historycorner.net, accessed November 9, 2011.

14
. Thomas Jefferson,
The Writings of Thomas Jefferson
, ed. Henry A. Washington, vol 7 (Washington, DC: Taylor & Maury, 1854), 305.

15
. Ibid., 407.

16
. Thomas Jefferson,
Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies
, ed.Thomas Jefferson Randolph, vol. 2 (Boston: Gray and Bowen, 1830) 221.

17
. Donald S. Lutz,
The Origins of American Constitutionalism
(Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1988), 143.

18
. Benjamin Franklin
, The Works of Benjamin Franklin
, ed. John Bigelow, vol. 5 (New York: G. P. Putnam's Son, 1904), 325–326.

19
. John Adams,
Diary and Autobiography of John Adams
, ed. L. H. Butterfield, vol. 2 (Cambridge: Belknap Press, 1962), 391.

20
. James Madison,
The Letters and Other Writings of James Madison
, vol. 4 (New York: R. Worthington, 1884), 58.

21
. John Quincy Adams,
An Oration Addressed to the Citizens of the Town of Quincy, on the Fourth of July, 1831
(Boston: Richardson, Lord & Holbrook, 1831), 15.

22
. John Witherspoon, “The Absolute Necessity of Salvation Through Christ, January 2, 1758,” in
The Works of John Witherspoon
, vol. 5 (Edinburgh: J. Ogle, 1815), 242.

23
. Benjamin Rush,
Letters of Benjamin Rush
, ed. L. H. Butterfield, vol. 2 (New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1951), 748.

24
. William Wirt,
Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry
(Philadelphia: James Webster, 1817), 386–387.