Federal Period
1805 President Thomas Jefferson's Complete Second Inaugural Address in the "Connecticut Courant" Newspaper
March 20, 1805-Dated Federal Period, Contemporary Edition of "The Connecticut Courant" Newspaper featuring a front-page printing of President Thomas Jefferson's complete Second Inaugural Address, with the Louisiana Territory and the need for Freedom of the Press, Choice Very Fine.
Original complete March 20, 1805 edition of "The Connecticut Courant" reporting Thomas Jefferson's complete Second Inaugural Address, published in Hartford, CT, by Hudson & Goodwin. This historic edition is numbered Vol. XLI, No. 2095 and contains all four pages measuring 13" x 20.5", appearing clean and attractive. The Hartford Courant is still published today, claiming the slogan "Older than the nation." There is some expected minor edge wear and light fold lines. In Jefferson's address, he speaks on the recent acquisition of the Louisiana Territory, the diminishing political influence of the Federalists, the need for Freedom of the Press, and his thoughts on the Native American Indians and Religion. In regards to the American Indians, Jefferson opined: "The aboriginal inhabitants of these countries I have regarded with the commiseration their history inspires." On Religion: ""In matters of religion, I have considered that its free exercise is placed by the constitution independent of the powers of the general government." The complete address has extensive and substantive content.
1805 Connecticut Newspaper Featuring Thomas Jefferson's Complete Second Inaugural Address, where President Jefferson opined:
"The aboriginal inhabitants of these countries I have regarded with the commiseration their history inspires." Endowed with the faculties and the rights of men, breathing an ardent love of liberty and independence, and occupying a country which left them no desire but to be undisturbed, the stream of overflowing population from other regions directed itself on these shores; without power to divert, or habits to contend against, they have been overwhelmed by the current, or driven before it; now reduced within limits too narrow for the hunter's state, humanity enjoins us to teach them agriculture and the domestic arts; to encourage them to that industry which alone can enable them to maintain their place in existence, and to prepare them in time for that state of society, which to bodily comforts adds the improvement of the mind and morals.
We have therefore liberally furnished them with the implements of husbandry and household use; we have placed among them instructors in the arts of first necessity; and they are covered with the aegis of the law against aggressors from among ourselves. But the endeavors to enlighten them on the fate which awaits their present course of life, to induce them to exercise their reason, follow its dictates, and change their pursuits with the change of circumstances, have powerful obstacles to encounter; they are combated by the habits of their bodies, prejudice of their minds, ignorance, pride, and the influence of interested and crafty individuals among them, who feel themselves something in the present order of things, and fear to become nothing in any other."
Regarding Religion, Thomas Jefferson states:
"In matters of religion, I have considered that its free exercise is placed by the constitution independent of the powers of the general government. I have therefore undertaken, on no occasion, to prescribe the religious exercises suited to it; but have left them, as the constitution found them, under the direction and discipline of state or church authorities acknowledged by the several religious societies."
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