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...Deliberate & Palpable." Last week the great phrase in the South was "the doctrine of interposition." The phrase has an illustrious ancestry. In 1798-99 the legislatures of Kentucky and Virginia passed three resolutions, written by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, in protest to the Alien and Sedition Acts. "In the case of a deliberate, palpable and dangerous exercise of powers not granted [by the Constitution]," wrote Madison, "the states, who are parties thereto, have the right and are in duty bound to interpose for arresting the progress of evil, and for maintaining within their respective limits the authorities, rights...
...whether Lausche's religion (Roman Catholic) is a liability in presidential politics : "I would want people to judge me in the same light that Thomas Jefferson asked that they judge him. He said, 'My religion with my God belongs to Him and me. It's a matter of private concern. Do not judge me by my religion; judge me by my deeds and my conduct. And if you think they have indicated a devotion to my community, my state and my nation, then the religion by which it has been guided undoubtedly must be good...
...questioners were regular Panel Member Lawrence Spivak, Jack Bell of the Associated Press, May Craig of the Portland (Me.) Press-Herald and Clyde Mann of the Akron Beacon Journal. * Lausche was obviously paraphrasing, quite probably from a Jefferson letter to John Adams: "Say nothing of my religion. It is known to my God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life; if that has been honest and dutiful to society, the religion which regulated it cannot...
...Your observations," wrote the President of the U.S. to an ambitious Army captain named Meriwether Lewis, "are to be taken with great pains and accuracy . . . and are to be rendered to the war-office ..." With that letter, in 1803, Thomas Jefferson sent Lewis and William Clark off on their famous expedition. True to their instructions, the captains did put down their observations, and most of these have been carefully preserved and published. Then, in 1953, additional documents were discovered in the attic of an old house in St. Paul, Minn. Last week those papers were the subject of a lawsuit...
...Jefferson Davis, by Hudson Strode, tried to rescue the President of the Confederacy from the sour apple tree from which he has been so long suspended. In the first volume (another to come), Davis seemed to be treated with exaggerated sympathy, but the portrait of a young Southern gentleman came from intimate sources and was long overdue...