...nominal farmer, in the earlier days of his career. The people engaged in agriculture he declared to be "the chosen people of God, if ever He had a chosen people" ; and, no doubt influenced by the jfhysiocratic views of the French philosophers, he expressed the...

...moment when he declares that farmers are central to a sound democracy. He wrote: "Those who lahour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people, whose hreasts he has made his peculiar deposit for suhstantial and genuine virtue" ("Notes" 29o). Jefferson...

...from that to exercise manufactures and handicraft atrs for the orher? Those who labor in the eatth ate the Chosen people of God, if ever He had a chosen people, whose breast He has made His peculiat deposit tor subsrantial and genuine vittue. It is the focus in which...

...virtues of an agrarian society flowed from the same preoccupation. Part of the reason he opined that "those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God" was that he thought they possessed a firmer sense of the nature and limits of reality and possibility...

...poverty. Jefferson in the Notes wrote a famous panegyric on the life of the farmer, declaring that "those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God," virtuous and free in comparison with the artisan population of cities, and he recommended that America...

...of virtue, at least as it might be assumed by independent landowners dispersed across the landscape: "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people, whose breast he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. It is the focus in which...

...agreed with Thomas Jefferson, who wrote in his \otes on tht .S'w1c of i 'trginiu that "those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people." Jefferson went on to extol the virtues of husbandry (and the virtuousness of the husbandman) and proclaim,...

...overall quality of life for residents declined. In 1781, Thomas Jefferson wrote that "those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people."53 In 1832, Andrew Jackson suggested that "The wealth and strength of a country are its population,...

...where these "labor[ers] in the earth," as their champion had written, would claim their divine right as the "chosen people of God, if ever He had a chosen people." Kentuckian John Breckinridge noted as early as 1797 that it appeared to him that "the poorer Class...

..."Remarks on the Southern Religion,"175. 19. Davidson, "A Mirror for Artists," 60. Jeffersonian Dreams Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God. — Thomas Jefferson Note on the State of Virginia The Union is saved. Lee has surrendered forever....