In a message dated 06/04/2000 2:58:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
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<<
 Jefferson, in his private letter to Madison, expresses concern for
 politically active immigrants, for freedom of the press,
 and for freedom to organize political parties without fear of being accused
 of "sedition" ( or of being charged with being an agent of a foreign power,
 in this case, the French).  Yet Adams pushed the Alien and Sedition acts
 through Congress, just as Jefferson feared he would.  Pound completely
 ignores this rather unseemly aspect of Adams presidency in his poetic
 narrative.

  >>

here we have yet another example of the conveniently compartmentalized
critical method of Wei -- attack John Adams, and to buttress this attack,
enlist the aid of Thomas Jefferson -- and do this without blanching, and
without accounting for Jefferson's appeal to Pound.  this is a method that
demonstrates chutzpah, and little else.  here's Pound on this kind of
critical morphing: "have no twisty thoughts."

jb...