Alien and Sedition Acts, John Adams, Alexander Hamilton and George Washington hated Immigrants and the Media Too

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Hamilton, the Rothschild's man in America

TOM SHACHTMAN

Go after the media for dissing the president? Check.

Define treason as anything anti-administration? Check.

Restrict immigration? Check.

Make deportations easier? Check.

Tighten citizenship requirements? Check.



It’s the 220th anniversary of the Alien & Sedition Acts of 1798, the forebear of Trump’s anti-immigrant, media-bashing, attention-distracting rulings. Those Acts ramped up the American populace’s anger and directed it away from a tepid economy and ingrained elitism and toward the government’s homeland political enemies.

Congress passed the four Acts during the “Quasi-War” with France, to protect America from French subversion that could aid and abet a rumored French invasion. President John Adams did not ask for the Acts, but he deliberately signed the first one on July 14, 1798, anniversary of Bastille Day, to emphasize that the United States of America was taking action to counter an attempt to bribe American diplomats, and the seizing of American commercial ships, and France’s overt backing of Adams’ 1796 electoral opponent, Thomas Jefferson.

But there were no huge numbers of “aliens” in America to blame—except some Haitian émigrés who were black and free and just then a bit of a burden on Baltimore—and no real sedition. The true target of the Acts was the Democratic-Republican Party, and beyond that the First Amendmentguarantees of freedom of speech and of the press. Adams’ Cabinet members, Secretary of State Timothy Pickering, Secretary of War James McHenry and Secretary of the Treasury Oliver Wolcott, Jr.—holdovers from the last phase of George Washington’s administration—pushed the application of the Acts and directed the subsequent implementation. Adams had kept the trio on to demonstrate continuity with Washington. Yet as Vice-President Thomas Jefferson wrote, “The Hamiltonians by whom [Adams] is surrounded are only a little less hostile to him than to me.”

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