...remain in Europe." In a letter to John Jay he wrote : "I consider the class of artificers as panderers of vice and the instruments by which the liberties of a country are generally overthrown."'1" He even considered yellow fever * Curtis, pp. 295-296. t Ibid., p. 90. a providential...

...remain in Europe." In a letter to John Jay he wrote : "I consider the class of artificers as panderers of vice and the instruments by which the liberties of a country are generally overthrown."1' He even considered yellow fever a providential blessing because " it will discourage...

..."pestilential to the morals, the health, and the liberties of mankind. ' ' Artisans and tradesmen he held to be the "panders of vice and the instruments by which...liberties of a country are generally overturned." It was in his view an error to attract hither mechanics or other artisans from Europe, or to establish...

...ravages of the yellow fever in the cities. It swept away the "artificers" (mechanics), whom he considered "the panders of vice and the instruments by which...liberties of a country are generally overturned." The cultivators of the soil, on the other hand, he wrote to John Jay in 1785, "are the most valuable...

...privilege. At this day it is amusing to read Jefferson's opinion of laborers as a class: "I consider the artificers as the panders of vice, and the instruments...by which the liberties of a country are generally overturned."1 And in view of certain present developments among our rural population it is equally...

...to turn them to the sea in preference to manufactures, because, comparing the characters of the two classes, I find the former the most valuable citizens....liberties of a country are generally overturned." Mr. Jefferson then tells Mr. Jay, that the people of the United States, at least in those States that...

...interest and our true object." In 1785 he considered commerce preferable to manufactures and considered "the class * of artificers as the panders of vice and the instruments by (17) which the liberties of a country are usually overturned." He would prefer, however, to do without...

...effect his letter from Jefferson, wherein the ' founder of American Democracy ' refers to artisans as ' the panders of vice and the instruments by which...the liberties of a country are generally overturned '. We find Jefferson, with some reluctance, asking Madison whether it would be wise ' to coalesce with...

...development of manufactures on moral grounds. " I consider," he said, " the class of artificers as panderers of vice and the instruments by which the liberties of a country are generally overthrown." He wished that no person should be permitted to serve in Congress for more than two successive...

...movement seems very strange, for on several occasions Jefferson declared that he regarded "the . . . artificers as the panders of vice, and the instruments by which the liberties of the country are generally overturned." His mistrust of workingmen probably stemmed from his fear that...