The Alien and Sedition Acts were used to persecute Democratic-Republican critics. Rep. Matthew Lyon of Vermont gets into a different sort of trouble in this 1798 cartoon.

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So that's where the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 came out. RUND ABDELFATAH, BYLINE: The Alien and Sedition Acts were made up of four laws.

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So that's where the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 came out. RUND ABDELFATAH, BYLINE: The Alien and Sedition Acts were made up of four laws.

So that's where the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 came out. RUND ABDELFATAH, BYLINE: The Alien and Sedition Acts were made up of four laws.