...Constitution as he himself asserted in his the Farewell Address he had prepared.5 But Jefferson continued: "It would give you a fever were 1 to name to you the...council, but who have had their heads shorn by the harlot England."6 Although Jefferson did not mention Washington by name and his heretics were in the plural,...

...monarchical party in America was bent on changing the government to the British form and complained of the "apostates who have gone over to these heresies,...had their heads shorn by the harlot England.""' In their last correspondence, Washington told Jefferson that he had "no conception that Parties would,...

...French Revolution layer in the Jeffersonian psyche. The sentence runs, "It would give you a fever were I to name to you the apostates who have gone over to these heresies, men who were Samsons in the field & Solomons in the council, but who have had their heads shorn by the har-lot England." 56 The expression...

...had come to see Washington as an apostate to the cause of Liberty. "It would give you a fever were I to name to you the apostates who have gone over to these heresies, men who were Samsons in the field & Solomons in the council, but who have had their heads shorn by the harlot England" (TJ to Philip...

...substance, as they have already done the forms of the British government." The letter spoke also of the "apostates who have gone over to these heresies, men who were Sampsons in the field and Solomons in the counsil, but who have had their heads shorn by the harlot...

...things to the rotten as well as the sound parts of the British model. It would give you a fever were I to name to you the apostates who have gone over to these heresies, men who were Samsons in the field & Solomons in the council, but who have had their heads shorn by the harlot England. In short, we are...

...things to the rotten as well as the sound parts of the British model. It would give you a fever were I to name to you the apostates who have gone over to these heresies, men who were Samsons in the field & Solomons in the council, but who have had their heads shorn by the harlot England. In short, we are...

...had read a 1796 letter of his, not intended for publication, referring to persons "who were Sampsons in the field and Solomons in the council, but who have had their heads shorn by the harlot England."1 Jefferson may or may not have had Washington in mind, but it was widely believed that he...

...British government." Worse still, in a reference generally taken to include Washington, he wrote about "apostates who have gone over to these heresies, men who were Samsons in the field & Solomons in the council, but who have had their heads shorn by the harlot England." u Following publication...

...holders in the banks & public funds," and even men like Washington, "who were Samsons in the field & Solomons in the council, but who have had their heads shorn by the harlot England."23 Jefferson was keeping a safe distance from politics at the time, but Hamilton was quick...