An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . I THOMAS JBFFaaSON. CHAPTER ADMINISTRATION OF THOMAS JEFFERSON. S the political tenets of Mr. Jefferson were directlyopposite to those of his predecessor, a change wasmade among the cabinet officers. Mr. Madisonwas appointed Secretary of State ; immediately be-fore his retirement, Adams had appointed twelvenew judges, in pursuance of a recent act of Congress. Byihe recom
An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . I THOMAS JBFFaaSON. CHAPTER ADMINISTRATION OF THOMAS JEFFERSON. S the political tenets of Mr. Jefferson were directlyopposite to those of his predecessor, a change wasmade among the cabinet officers. Mr. Madisonwas appointed Secretary of State ; immediately be-fore his retirement, Adams had appointed twelvenew judges, in pursuance of a recent act of Congress. Byihe recommendation of Mr. Jefferson, that body now passedan act abolishing this judiciary, and re-organizing the wholejudiciary department. Another act placed the laws of its or-ganization on an enlarged basis. In 1801, the second census of the United States showed a popula-tion of more than five million three hundred thousand souls, anaugmentation of exports from nineteen to ninety-four millions Dfdollars, and an increase of the revenue from five to thirteenmillions, in ten years. These gave to the people the most satis-factory procf of the resources of the country as developed under thenew constitu-ion. In the same year, Spain ceded Louisiana to France,
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