jeffersonians

Updated: June 1, 2025

It was the effect of the concentrated influence of men of great ability rather than a definite organization. The congressional caucus was the instrument through which their influence was made practical. In 1816, however, a considerable movement was started to end the Virginia monopoly. It spread to the Jeffersonians of the North.

Samuel Peter Orth - The Boss and the Machine; a chronicle of the politicians and party organization

The violent agitation against the excise act promoted by the Jeffersonians naturally tended to forcible resistance. One of the counts of Jefferson's indictment of Hamilton's policy which had been presented to Washington was that the excise law was "of odious character ... committing the authority of the Government in parts where resistance is most probable and coercion least practicable."

Henry Jones Ford - Washington and his colleagues; a chronicle of the rise and fall of federalism