Creating the United States

{ object_type: 'Exhibit Item',embed_type: 'image',embed_detail: 'http://www.myloc.gov/_assets/Exhibitions/creatingtheus/BillofRights/PeacefulTransition/Assets/us0106p2_th125.jpg',embed_alt: 'Jefferson Seeks Unity in Inaugural Address',thumbnail: {url: 'http://www.myloc.gov/_assets/Exhibitions/creatingtheus/BillofRights/PeacefulTransition/Assets/us0106p2_th125.jpg',alt: 'Jefferson Seeks Unity in Inaugural Address',height: '66',width: '125'} }
Discovery Facts for Kids » Discovery Bulb Icon

See Silverlight version of this item » About this item        

After a vicious campaign and a polarizing election that was not resolved until February 17, 1801, after thirty-six ballots in the House of Representatives, President Thomas Jefferson delivered a soothing and unifying message in his first inaugural address. Jefferson uttered these now-classic lines: “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 all federalists.”

(Transcription)

“Relying then on the patronage of your good will . . .”


Experience the Interactives

After a vicious campaign and a polarizing election that was not resolved until February 17, 1801, after thirty-six ballots in the House of Representatives, President Thomas Jefferson delivered a soothing and unifying message in his first inaugural address. Jefferson uttered these now-classic lines: “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 all federalists.”