. The development of American nationality. , it was probably not without the design of typify-ing the overthrow of what he considered the aristocraticparty and the incoming of democracy. Significant as isthe triumph of Jefferson, however, his election did notmark so much the incoming of new principles as a returnThe return to of those of the Revolution. The strong government reactionprincipksof °f the Federalist period had accomplished its task of reestab-tivfnRev°lu hshing order, but had grown irksome to the majority of thepeople, who now turned to the men who had held their con-fidence durin
. The development of American nationality. , it was probably not without the design of typify-ing the overthrow of what he considered the aristocraticparty and the incoming of democracy. Significant as isthe triumph of Jefferson, however, his election did notmark so much the incoming of new principles as a returnThe return to of those of the Revolution. The strong government reactionprincipksof °f the Federalist period had accomplished its task of reestab-tivfnRev°lu hshing order, but had grown irksome to the majority of thepeople, who now turned to the men who had held their con-fidence during the Revolutionary struggle, and to youngermen of like mind. Jefferson himself had held office almostcontinuously, but is remembered chiefly for his work duringthe Revolution and as President. Many states, like thenation, sought veterans. In the state elections of 1799 and1800, Thomas McKean became governor of Pennsylvania,and George Clinton of New York; and later Republicanvictories made John Langdon governor of New Hampshire, 86 tion. Thomas Jefferson THOMAS JEFFERSON 87 and Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts. In both houses of thenew Congress, the supporters of Jefferson were in the majority. The leadership of the new party in thought and personnel The Virginiawas Virginian. The Virginia stock was now at its prime. e emen The hardships of the early years had weeded out the physi-cally weak, and the cavalier immigration had infused an ele-ment of high refinement, which served to excite the emula-tion of the rest. At this period the plantation system hadreached its highest possible development in Virginia. As ithad stretched westward into the piedmont, the plantationshad become larger, and the need of administrative talent onthe part of the owners greater. The next generationwould be deflected by the mountains southward and intocotton culture, but now founders and administrators of thegreatest plantations in the country were still living inVirginia, and were moved to public se
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