Note 31 — Chapter I
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"This country has never been in such a state of excitement since the battle of Lexington." (Jefferson to Bowdoin, July 10, 1807, Works: Ford, x, 454; same to De Nemours, July 14, 1807, ib. 460.)
For Jefferson's interpretation of Great Britain's larger motive for perpetrating the Chesapeake crime, see Jefferson to Paine, Sept. 6, 1807, ib. 493.