THE SECOND ADMINISTRATION OF THOMAS JEFFERSON 1805–1809 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA DURING THE SECOND ADMINISTRATION OF THOMAS JEFFERSON BY HENRY ADAMS VOL. III. NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS 1921 _Copyright, 1890_ BY CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS. _Copyright, 1918_ BY HENRY ADAMS [Illustration] CONTENTS OF VOL. III. CHAPTER PAGE I. INTERNAL IMPROVEMENT 1 II. MONROE’S DIPLOMACY 22 III. CABINET VACILLATIONS 54 IV. BETWEEN FRANCE AND ENGLAND 80 V. THE FLORIDA MESSAGE 103 VI. THE TWO-MILLION ACT 126 VII. JOHN RANDOLPH’S SCHISM 147 VIII. MADISON’S ENEMIES 172 IX. DOMESTIC AFFAIRS 197 X. BURR’S SCHEMES 219 XI. BURR’S PREPARATIONS 245 XII. ESCAPE PAST FORT MASSAC 268 XIII. CLAIBORNE AND WILKINSON 295 XIV. COLLAPSE OF THE CONSPIRACY 318 XV. SESSION OF 1806–1807 344 XVI. THE BERLIN DECREE 370 XVII. MONROE’S TREATY 392 XVIII. REJECTION OF MONROE’S TREATY 415 XIX. BURR’S TRIAL 441 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. CHAPTER I. A SECOND time President Jefferson appeared at the Capitol, escorted with due formalities by a procession of militia-men and other citizens; and once more he delivered an inaugural address, “in so low a voice that not half of it was heard by any part of the crowded auditory.”[1] The second Inaugural roused neither the bitterness nor the applause which greeted the first, although in part it was intended as a cry of triumph over the principles and vanishing power of New England.