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Cover Title Copyright Table of Contents Treaty Commissioner and Minister to The Netherlands and To Great Britain 1784–1788

Washington’s Character “Three Grand Objects” Chivalric Orders “Justice May Not Be Done Me” “The Art Of Writing Letters” From the Diary: June 22–July 10, 1784 “The Happiest Man Upon Earth” Keeping A Journal Diplomatic Salaries John Quincy’s Education “Kinds Of Vanity” From the Diary: May 3, 1785 Meeting George III “The Contagion of Luxury” Salaries For Public Officers “The First Step Of Corruption” The Ambassador From Tripoli Religious Liberty Liberty and Commerce The Slave Trade American Debt From the Diary: March 30, 1786 Notes on a Tour of England with Thomas Jefferson From the Diary: April 19, 1786 “A Schollar is Always Made Alone” From the Diary: July 1, 1786 Nabby’s Marriage From the Diary: July 21, 1786 Tumult In New England “Popularity Was Never My Mistress” “We Are Not Born For Ourselves Alone” Buying Land In Braintree Buying Land In Braintree The New Constitution From A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America Vol. I From A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America Vol. III Oratory “Trying The Experiment” Amending The Constitution A Balance Of Three Branches Balancing Vanity And Comfort

VICE PRESIDENT 1789–1797

The Presidential Election Inaugural Address as Vice President From The Diary of William Maclay: April 25–May 8, 1789 Monarchy and Aristocracy From the Diary of William Maclay: May 9–14, 1789 Presidential Protocol “We Are In Great Danger” A House in New York From the Diary of William Maclay: May 26–28, 1789 Official Titles “Human Passions are Insatiable” “The Avarice of Liberty” “Fatal Divisions” Republican Governments National and State Sovereignty “The Constitution of Human Nature” Species of Governments “A Monarchical Republic” Appointments and the Senate “You Read Yourself to Death” Ancestry and Principles Franklin and Washington The Few and The Many Preserving Neutrality “Nil Admirari Nil Contemni” Republics and Nobility Discourses on Davila The Boston Massacre “A Direct and Open Personal Attack” “Four Years More” “This Miserable Scramble” The Trial Of Louis XVI “Flowers of Jacobinical Rhetorick” “The Modern Doctrine of Equality” “A Moral Equality Only” Chimerical Systems Uncontrolled Power and Passions The Follies of The Times The Dirty Torrent of Dissolving Europe One of My Remarkable Cures Popularity and Party Spirit Slavery In Massachusetts “Justice to the Negroes” “The Ennui of Life” From the Diary: July 12–September 8, 1796 Hamilton’s Hypocrisy Financial Difficulties Farewell Address to the Senate

PRESIDENT 1797–1801

Inaugural Address The Inaugural Ceremony The Late Election Crisis With France Address to Congress in Special Session A Strong Antigallican Party “Calumnies and Contempts” Writing The “Defence” First Annual Message to Congress Contemplating War With France Message to Congress on Relations with France Proclamation of a Fast Day The Prospect Of Unanimity Plundered, By Professed Friends French “ambition And Avarice” Dangers Of Foreign Influence Forgetting British Injuries “The Urgent Necessity” A Union of Sentiment “The Motives Of Such Base Americans” Passports For French Philosophers Military Appointments Logan’s Unauthorized DiplomacY “France Ought To Be Ashamed” “The Basis Of Moral Obligation” Valuation of Real Estate “The Real Spirit Of The Parties” Fries Rebellion Impressment Public Credit Prosecuting The “aurora” “The Essence Of My Religion” “A Name For Our Country” Pardoning The Fries Rebels Crisis In The Cabinet Fourth Annual Message to Congress “All Revolutions Are Alike” “Slavery Is Fast Diminishing” “Downright Corruption Has Spread”

RETIREMENT 1801–1826

We Have No Americans In America A Namesake Request Appraising The “defence” “The Awful Spirit Of Democracy” “Dangerous Questions” Tobacco and Cider Hamilton And Washington Hamilton’s Talents Avoiding European Alliances Laurence Sterne and Thomas Paine Hamilton and Madison Meteorites And Natural History General Miranda Blockade and Impressment Advantages of a College Degree “The Real Fathers Of Their Country” THe Perfectibility Of Man The Burr Conspiracy Excerpt from a letter of Abigail Adams to Mercy Otis Warren Military Discipline The Origin Of Independence “Empire Rises Where The Sun Descends” “Calamities of my Enemies” Responding to Warren’s “history” Prudence “A Rascally Virtue” Washington’s Talents “The Art of War” Naivete Judicial Removal The Embargo Act Preserving The Union Removing The Embargo Relations With France and England “Strict Historical Truth” Jefferson And “sally” “Causes of The Revolutionary Spirit” Family News and The “stormy Science of Politicks” “My Posthumous Sermon” Differences With Jefferson “Two Pieces of Homespun” “That Word ‘Worthy’” Resuming a Correspondence Strengthening the Navy American Indians “Had I Been Continued President” “A Moral Essay” Naval Anecdotes Foreign Affairs in 1789 Judicial Construction Christianity and Liberty Terrorism Advances In Government “Where is The Amelioration of Society?” The War of 1812 God and The Universe Natural Aristocracy I Never Owned A Slave Liberty And Morality Plato “Causes of Aristocracy” Burr and Hamilton “I Have Little Faith in History” Knowledge and Equality “I Left My Country In Peace” Advice For Foreign Travel “The Revolution Was in the Minds Of The People” “Greek and Latin are Indispensible” Clergymen and Priests Secrecy and the Continental Congress Urging A Grandson to Return Home Death and the Afterlife “The Uses Of Grief” “A Martial Spirit” Newton and the Ether “The Most Conceited People” Christianity And Revelation A Colony of Free Blacks “Metaphisicks” “The Only Perfect Chymist” The Fine Arts Universal Suffrage “Thirteen Clocks Were Made To Strike Together” “A Dull, Dreary Unfruitful Waste” Jewish Citizenship Indian Land Rights Abigail’s Final Illness “My Great Affliction” Samuel Adams Temperance A Jewish Nation In Judea Defining “liberty” and “republic” The Infamy of the Slave Trade “My Physical Habits” “This Weight of Woe” Women’s Education Virtue in Nations “The Missouri Question” “The Gangrene” of Slavery Public Libraries “Pillows of Ignorance” Calvinism Stubborn Facts Duty to Posterity Natural Genius and Education Exhilirating Prospects Indian And African Religions Religious Questions Montesquieu Assisting Greece Missionaries Coffee Blasphemy Laws John Quincy Is Elected President “Not an Event to Excite Vanity” Anniversary of Independence

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