Election Of 1800 Insults

Electoral votes in the election of 1800.

Election of 1800 insults. Burr s influence on the election. The presidential election of 1800 was not genteel. Christians he exclaimed it is thus that a man whom you are expected to elevate to the chief magistracy insults yourselves and your bible an.

Distrust of government is at an all time high. The 1800 election saw america s first contested presidential campaigns. John adams the incumbent ran against thomas jefferson and neither party came out looking dignified.

One of the more vitriolic charges was leveled at adams after jefferson allegedly hired the journalist james thomson callender to write unpleasant things about his opponent. In what is sometimes referred to as the revolution of 1800 vice president thomas jefferson of the democratic republican party defeated incumbent president john adams of the federalist party the election was a political realignment that ushered in a. How we long for learned dispassionate discourses on the issues of the day the way the founding fathers.

They remained pen pals for the rest of their lives and passed. Candidates are called out for personal insults. Pinckney 64 jefferson 73 burr 73.

Twelve years after the vicious election of 1800 adams and jefferson began writing letters to each other and became friends again. Thomas jefferson and john adams. In the crisis ridden election of 1800 the many prevailing anxieties about the fate of the union pushed people to change past habits.

The use of insults to attack an opponent s reputation. Of course people did not accept such change in a blind rush. The 1800 election result revealed a serious flaw in the u s.