Unless you were a farmer in a southern state, or advocated resistance to British heavy-handed tactics against your merchant ships, or you were against a federal bank.
Is it any wonder Thomas Jefferson mistrusted and despised this guy?
Is it any wonder Thomas Jefferson mistrusted and despised this guy?
Jefferson? Great guy, except if you were Black, or a slave, or a Revolutionary soldier who wondered where his governor had run off to, or a Frenchman who got his head cut off by the revolutionaries he loved, or a merchant or sailor who wanted to make a living during the embargo, or if you were in favor of a national bank.
Is it any wonder that Hamilton and Adams mistrusted and dispised this guy?
Not that Jefferson was as bad as his opponents said, but it cuts both ways.