This party has therefore always clung to England,
as their prototype, and great auxiliary in promoting and effecting this
change. A weighty minority, however, of these leaders, considering the
voluntary conversion of our government into a monarchy as too distant,
if not desperate, wish to break off from our Union its eastern fragment,
as being, in truth, the hot-bed of American monarchism, with a view to a
commencement of their favorite government, from whence the other States
may gangrene by degrees, and the whole be thus brought finally to the
desired point. For Massachusetts, the prime mover in this enterprise, is
the last State in the Union to mean a final separation, as being of all
the most dependant on the others. Not raising bread for the sustenance
her own inhabitants, not having a stick of timber for the construction
of vessels, her principal occupation, nor an article to export in them,
where would she be, excluded from the ports of the other States, and
thrown into dependance on England, her direct and natural, but now
insidious, rival? At the head of this minority is what is called the
Essex Junto of Massachusetts. But the majority of these leaders do not
aim at separation. In this they adhere to the known principle of
General Hamilton, never, under any views, to break the Union. Anglomany,
monarchy, and separation, then, are the principles of the Essex
federalists; Anglomany and monarchy, those of the Hamiltonians,
and Anglomany alone, that of the portion among the people who call
themselves federalists.
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