<Li> Matthew Lyon was a Democratic - Republican congressman from Vermont . He was the first individual to be placed on trial under the Alien and Sedition Acts . He was indicted in 1800 for an essay he had written in the Vermont Journal accusing the administration of "ridiculous pomp, foolish adulation, and selfish avarice ." While awaiting trial, Lyon commenced publication of Lyon's Republican Magazine, subtitled "The Scourge of Aristocracy". At trial, he was fined $1,000 and sentenced to four months in jail . After his release, he returned to Congress . </Li> <Li> Benjamin Franklin Bache was editor of the Philadelphia Aurora, a Democratic - Republican newspaper . Bache had accused George Washington of incompetence and financial irregularities, and "the blind, bald, crippled, toothless, querulous Adams" of nepotism and monarchical ambition . He was arrested in 1798 under the Sedition Act, but he died of yellow fever before trial . </Li> <Li> Anthony Haswell was an English immigrant and a printer of the Jeffersonian Vermont Gazette . Haswell had reprinted from the Aurora Bache's claim that the federal government employed Tories, also publishing an advertisement from Lyon's sons for a lottery to raise money for his fine that decried Lyon's oppression by jailers exercising "usurped powers". Haswell was found guilty of seditious libel by judge William Paterson, and sentenced to a two - month imprisonment and a $200 fine . </Li> <Li> Luther Baldwin was indicted, convicted, and fined $100 for a drunken incident that occurred during a visit by President Adams to Newark, New Jersey . Upon hearing a gun report during a parade, he yelled "I hope it hit Adams in the arse ." </Li>

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