During presidential campaign of 1800, a Richmond newspaper editor named James Thomas Callender was arrested under the statutes of the Sedition Act of 1798 for publishing editorials critical of President John Adams.
Adams used the Sedition Act as a means to imprison congressmen, newspaper publishers and even the Newark, NJ town drunk who joked to a bartender that President Adams ought to be shot in the ass with a cannon. True story....
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