Tertium quids
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The tertium quids (sometimes shortened to quids) were various
In
Pennsylvania
Between 1801 and 1806, rival factions of Jeffersonian Republicans in
The term "tertium quids" was first used in 1804 to refer to the moderates, especially a faction of the Republican Party that called itself the Society of Constitutional Republicans.[1] The faction gathered Federalist support and in 1805 re-elected Governor Thomas McKean, who had been elected by a united Republican Party in 1802 but had broken with the party's majority wing.[2][3]
New York State
In
The New York State and the Pennsylvania Quid factions had no connection with each other at the federal level, and both of them supported US President Thomas Jefferson.[4]
Virginia
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When
Randolph made no effort to align with either Quid faction in the states and made no effort to build a third party at the federal level. He supported James Monroe against Madison during the runup to the presidential election of 1808. However, the state Quids supported Madison and were led by Randolph, who had started as Jefferson's leader in the House but later became his most bitter enemy. Randolph denounced the compromise on the Yazoo Purchase in 1804 as totally corrupt. After Randolph failed to impeach a Supreme Court justice in 1805, he became embittered with Jefferson and Madison and complained: "Everything and everybody seem to be jumbled out of place, except a few men who are steeped in supine indifference, whilst meddling fools and designing knaves are governing the country."[6] He refused to help fund Jefferson's secret purchase of Florida from Spain.
Increasingly, Randolph felt that Jefferson was adopting Federalist policies and betraying the true party spirit. In 1806, he wrote to an ally that "the Administration... favors federal principles, and, with the exception of a few great rival characters, federal men.... The old Republican party is already ruined, past redemption. New men and new maxims are the order of the day."[6]
Randolph's increasingly-strident rhetoric limited his influence, and he was never able to build a coalition to stop Jefferson. However, many of his supporters lived on and, by 1824, had looked to Andrew Jackson to resurrect what they called "Old Republicanism".
See also
- Agrarianism
- American gentry
- Anti-Federalism
- Classical liberalism
- Classical republicanism
- Democratic-Republican Party
- First Party System
- Jacksonian democracy
- Jeffersonian democracy
References
- ^ "The Society of Constitutional Republicans. Those citizens who are in favour of the proposition for forming "The Society of Constitutional Republicans." are requested to meet at the White-Horse Tavern, in Market-Street, at 6 o'clock of the evenin". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2021-06-23.
- JSTOR 3124922.
- ^ Phillips, Kim T. (1977). "William Duane, Philadelphia's Democratic Republicans, and the Origins of Modern Politics". Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography: 365–387.
- ^ Junius P. Rodriguez, ed. (2002). The Louisiana Purchase: A Historical and Geographical Encyclopedia.
- ^ McCarthy, Daniel (August 1, 2005). "Liberty and Order in the Slave Society". The American Conservative
- ^ a b Risjord (1965), p. 42.
- Cunningham Jr., Noble E. (September 1963). "Who Were the Quids?". The Mississippi Valley Historical Review. 50 (2): 252–263. JSTOR 1902756.
- Risjord, Norman K. (1965). The Old Republicans: Southern Conservatism in the Age of Jefferson. The standard history of the Randolph faction.
- Sheldon, Garrett Ward; Hill Jr., C. William (2008). The Liberal Republicanism of John Taylor of Caroline.