14 Jefferson on Refusing to Write What Everyone Is Waiting to Read
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14 Jefferson on Refusing to Write What Everyone Is Waiting to Read
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Ten days before the House convenes to break the electoral tie of 1800, Jefferson writes Madison a letter conspicuous for what it refuses to contain. Citing “the interception & publication of my letters” and the “obloquy” they have cost the republican cause, he declares a resolution “never to write another sentence of politics in a letter” — even as he builds a cabinet in compressed code (“Clermont has refused. I think to adopt your idea at Baltimore”) and recruits his ailing Secretary of State with medical advice about a “change of climate.” A misdirected enclosure under a blank cover — from James Callender, of all correspondents — completes a portrait of a correspondence operating under surveillance at the very hinge of the republic's first contested transfer of power.
Key Themes
• Surveillance and self-censorship: the post as enemy country
• The vow of silence — and cabinet-building in code around it
• Friendship as the secure channel when no other exists
• The Callender enclosure and the future it carries (the series' honesty standard)
• Payoff of the interception theme running since Episode 1