' But in
the fervor of the fury and follies of those who made him their
stalking-horse, no man who did not witness it can form an idea of
their unbridled madness, and the terrorism with which they surrounded
themselves. The horrors of the French revolution, then raging, aided
them mainly, and using that as a raw-head and bloody-bones, they were
enabled by their stratagems of X. Y. Z. in which ------ was a leading
mountebank, their tales of tub-plots, ocean-massacres, bloody-buoys, and
pulpit-lyings and slanderings, and maniacal ravings of their Gardiners,
their Osgoods, and Parishes, to spread alarm into all but the firmest
breasts. Their Attorney General had the impudence to say to a republican
member, that deportation must be resorted to, of which, said he, 'you
republicans have set the example'; thus daring to identify us with the
murderous Jacobins of France. These transactions, now recollected but
as dreams of the night, were then sad realities; and nothing rescued us
from their liberticide effect, but the unyielding opposition of those
firm spirits who sternly maintained their post in defiance of terror,
until their fellow-citizens could be aroused to their own danger, and
rally and rescue the standard of the constitution. This has been happily
done. Federalism and monarchism have languished from that moment, until
their treasonable combinations with the enemies of their country during
the late war, their plots of dismembering the Union, and their Hartford
Convention, have consigned them to the tomb of the dead: and I fondly
hope, 'we may now truly say, We are all republicans, all federalists,'
and that the motto of the standard to which our country will for ever
rally, will be, 'Federal union, and republican government': and sure I
am we may say, that we are indebted for the preservation of this point
of ralliance, to that opposition of which so injurious an idea is so
artfully insinuated and excited in this history.
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