358. ANGLOMANIA, Danger in.—
I
fear nothing for our liberty from the assaults
of force; but I have seen and felt much, and
fear more from English books, English prejudices,
English manners, and the apes, the
dupes, and designs among our professional
crafts. When I look around me for security
against these seductions, I find it in the wide
spread of our agricultural citizens, in their
unsophisticated minds, their independence
and their power, if called on, to crush the
Humists [Tories] of our cities, and to maintain
the principles which severed us from
England.—
To Horatio G. Spafford. Washington ed. vi, 335.
(M.
1814)
