. The story of American democracy, political and industrial . f civilization in the world, and force mankind back into asavage state. ... We have a country governed by blockheadsand knaves; the ties ofmarriage are severed anddestroyed ; our wives anddaughters are thrown intothe stews; our children arecast into the world fromthe breast and forgotten;filial piety is extinguished;and our surnames, the onlymark of distinctioif amongfamilies, are the imagination paintanything more dreadful onthis side hell ? It was but a step fromsuch twaddle to sus-pect Jefferson of plot-ting against
. The story of American democracy, political and industrial . f civilization in the world, and force mankind back into asavage state. ... We have a country governed by blockheadsand knaves; the ties ofmarriage are severed anddestroyed ; our wives anddaughters are thrown intothe stews; our children arecast into the world fromthe breast and forgotten;filial piety is extinguished;and our surnames, the onlymark of distinctioif amongfamilies, are the imagination paintanything more dreadful onthis side hell ? It was but a step fromsuch twaddle to sus-pect Jefferson of plot-ting against the propertyor the life of Federalistleaders. In GouverneurMorris diary for 1804we find the passage: Wednesday, January 18, I dined at [Rufus] Kings withGeneral Hamilton. . They were both alarmed at theconduct of our rulers, and think the Constitution about tobe overthrown: I think it already overthrown. They A term borrowed from the French Revolution, and applied to the Repub-licans by their opponents, much as Bolshevist has been used in recent Alexander Hamilton. From the Trumbullportrait, in the Yale School of Fine Arts. 336 END OF THE FEDERALIST PERIOD apprehend a bloody anarchy: I apprehend an anarchy inwhich property, not Hves, will be sacrificed. And FisherAmes wrote: My health is good for nothing, but ... ifthe Jacobins make haste, I may yet live to be hanged. In1804, in a Connecticut town, an applauded Fourth of Julytoast to The President of the United States ran —Thomas Jefferson : may he receive from his fellow citizensthe reward of his merit — a halter! (And see page 386.) These faults must not obscure the vast service the Federal-ists had rendered. Alexander Hamilton is the hero of thetwelve-year Federalist period. He should be The gains . , , . , , , ^ , . , . , in the judged m the mam by his work m the years ^^rlod^^* 1789-1798. During that critical era, he stoodforth — as no other man of the day could havedone — as statesman-general in the confl
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