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Editorial
July 21, 1801
The New Hampshire Gazette
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
What is this article about?
Excerpt from Thomas Jefferson's inaugural speech urging fellow citizens to unite, restore social harmony, reject political intolerance akin to past religious persecution, and recognize shared republican and federalist principles despite differing opinions.
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"Let us, 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 but dreary things. And let us recollect that having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long 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 persecution. During the throes and convulsions of the ancient world, during the agonizing pangs of infuriated man, it was not wonderful that the agitation of the billows should reach even this distant and peaceful shore; that this should be more felt and feared by some and less by others: and should divide opinions as to measures of safety; but every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all republicans: we are federalists."
[Jefferson's inaugural Speech.]
[Jefferson's inaugural Speech.]
What sub-type of article is it?
Partisan Politics
Constitutional
Moral Or Religious
What keywords are associated?
National Unity
Political Intolerance
Republicans
Federalists
Jefferson Inaugural
What entities or persons were involved?
Thomas Jefferson
Editorial Details
Primary Topic
Call For Unity Against Political Intolerance
Stance / Tone
Exhortation For National Harmony And Reconciliation
Key Figures
Thomas Jefferson
Key Arguments
Unite With One Heart And One Mind To Restore Harmony And Affection In Social Intercourse
Political Intolerance Is As Despotic And Wicked As Religious Intolerance
Differences Of Opinion Do Not Imply Differences Of Principle
All Americans Are Republicans And Federalists