Here all is quiet. The British war has left us in debt; but that is
a cheap price for the good it has done us. The establishment of the
necessary manufactures among ourselves, the proof that our government is
solid, can stand the shock of war, and is superior even to civil schism,
are precious facts for us; and of these the strongest proofs were
furnished, when, with four eastern States tied to us, as dead to living
bodies, all doubt was removed as to the achievements of the war, had
it continued. But its best effect has been the complete suppression of
party. The federalists who were truly American, and their great mass was
so, have separated from their brethren who were mere Anglomen, and are
received with cordiality into the republican ranks. Even Connecticut,
as a State, and the last one expected to yield its steady habits (which
were essentially bigoted in politics as well as religion), has chosen
a republican governor, and republican legislature. Massachusetts indeed
still lags; because most deeply involved in the parricide crimes and
treasons of the war. But her gangrene is contracting, the sound flesh
advancing on it, and all there will be well. I mentioned Connecticut
as the most hopeless of our States. Little Delaware had escaped my
attention. That is essentially a Quaker State, the fragment of a
religious sect which, there, in the other States, in England, are a
homogeneous mass, acting with one mind, and that directed by the mother
society in England.
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