“The moral certainty therefore is that there will be an Anti-federal Majority in the Ensuing Legislature, and this very high probability is that this will bring Jefferson into the Chief Magistracy . . . the scruples of delicacy and propriety . . . ought not to hinder the taking of a legal and constitutional step, to prevent an Atheist in Religion and a Fanatic in politics from getting possession of the helm of the State . . . ”

-Alexander Hamilton, letter to John Jay, May 1800

Join us as we take a deep dive into the mudslinging politics of the 1790s and Jefferson’s role in the contentious election of 1800.

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