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To: conimbricenses

Jefferson understood the difference between revolt against an authority never consented to and one freely consented to and thus would never have gone along with the hotheads leading the South into disaster because they didn’t like the president elected. Elected mainly because of the stupidity of the slavers. I must say this was one of the most lunatic of ruling classes only topped perhaps by the boneheaded Russian nobility.

Luther Martin was in no way irrational in his hatred of Jefferson. He knew of his dishonesty and duplicity. Martin was also a Federalist after the new government began to work.


528 posted on 08/11/2010 1:24:32 PM PDT by arrogantsob
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To: arrogantsob
Again, I don't pretend to know what a man would have done in an event that happened 35 years after his death. But I can say with certainty that Jefferson supported and practiced nullification and, if the grievance was significant enough, believed in a right of separation.

Martin's hatred of Jefferson was anything but rational, regardless of what he thought about Jefferson personally (come to think of it, there seem to be tinges of irrationality in your own insult-laden position on Jefferson. Why is that?). Martin's dislike stemmed almost entirely from a silly personal dispute between the two men after Jefferson published a pamphlet that insulted Martin's late father-in-law over complicity in an Indian massacre on the frontier in the 1770's. He became a Federalist in repudiation of Jefferson as a result, but was at odds with virtually all of the Federalist platform. Despite his party label, he then politically aligned himself with the Aaron Burr faction of the Jeffersonians and spent the remainder of his career at odds with the Federalists (including Marshall, who he argued against as the attorney general for Maryland in McCulloch v. Maryland). had made about one of Martin's wife's relatives.

533 posted on 08/11/2010 1:53:04 PM PDT by conimbricenses (Red means run son, numbers add up to nothing.)
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