New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . s; that the alien and sedition laws were ausurpation by the Federal government of powersnot granted to it; and that the State of Virginiasolemnly declared those laws to be unconstitu-tional. Kentucky took the view that tJie Stateswere one party to the compact and the federalgovernment was the other, and that each partymust be the judge of infractions of the agreementand of the mode and measure of redress. An ap-peal to the other States to adopt these or similarresolutions having been met with refusal, theywere repealed in 1
New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . s; that the alien and sedition laws were ausurpation by the Federal government of powersnot granted to it; and that the State of Virginiasolemnly declared those laws to be unconstitu-tional. Kentucky took the view that tJie Stateswere one party to the compact and the federalgovernment was the other, and that each partymust be the judge of infractions of the agreementand of the mode and measure of redress. An ap-peal to the other States to adopt these or similarresolutions having been met with refusal, theywere repealed in 1799, Kentucky, in excess of Jef-fersons advice, declaring that any State mightrightfully nullify and declare void any act of Con-gress which it might declare unconstitutional—aprecedent for the doctrine adopted by South Oaro-lina in her Nullification fiasco in 1832, and by theseceding States in 1860-61. To add to the disasters of the Federalists Presi-dent Adams, without consultation with his cab-inet, sent envoys to negotiate peace with the 40 NEW JEKSEY AS A COL. ^//^ French Directory, headed by Napoleon Alexander Hamilton and the Presidentthere was evident ill feeling, which later culmi-nated in the dismissal of the British faction,Hamiltons friends, from the cabinet. In revengeHamilton not only attacked the President inprint, but undertook to deliver to Charles , Federalist candidate for Vice-Presi-dent, sufficient electors to insure him the presi-dency, while Adams, who was the candidate forPresident, was to be made Vice-President. Butthe waitin;:^ policy of Thomas Jefferson and hisrival, Aaron Burr, of New York, had borne fruit,and with the vote of South Carolina the Repub-lican electors in 1801 were declared to have a ma-jority. In New Jersey the intrenched Federalists hadin their wild intoxication and misuse of powererred in attempting to enforce the alien and sedi-tion laws. Even to the most conservative elementof the party the error
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