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1790s America
Jul. 2nd, 2015 08:53 am“Party animosities have raised a wall of separation between those who differ in political sentiments.”
-- Thomas Jefferson, letter to Angelica Church
The French Revolution divided not only Europe but America as well.
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The period of John Adams’s presidency declined into a time of political savagery with few parallels in American history, a season of paranoia in which the two parties surrendered all trust in each other. Like other Federalists infected with war fever, Hamilton increasingly mistook dissent for treason and engaged in hyperbole. In one newspaper piece, he blasted the Jeffersonians as “more Frenchmen than Americans” and declared that to shake their ambition and thirst for revenge they stood ready “to immolate the independence and welfare of their country at the shrine of France.” Republicans behaved no better, interpreting policies they disliked as the treacherous deeds of men in league with England and bent on bringing back George III. The indiscriminate use of pejorative labels - “Jacobins” for Republicans, “Anglomen” for Federalists - reflected the rancorously unfair emotions.
-- Ron Chernow, “Alexander Hamilton”
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-- Thomas Jefferson, letter to Angelica Church
The French Revolution divided not only Europe but America as well.
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The period of John Adams’s presidency declined into a time of political savagery with few parallels in American history, a season of paranoia in which the two parties surrendered all trust in each other. Like other Federalists infected with war fever, Hamilton increasingly mistook dissent for treason and engaged in hyperbole. In one newspaper piece, he blasted the Jeffersonians as “more Frenchmen than Americans” and declared that to shake their ambition and thirst for revenge they stood ready “to immolate the independence and welfare of their country at the shrine of France.” Republicans behaved no better, interpreting policies they disliked as the treacherous deeds of men in league with England and bent on bringing back George III. The indiscriminate use of pejorative labels - “Jacobins” for Republicans, “Anglomen” for Federalists - reflected the rancorously unfair emotions.
-- Ron Chernow, “Alexander Hamilton”
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