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373. ANTI-FEDERALISTS, Overthrown.—

The opposition to our new Constitution
has almost totally disappeared.
Some few indeed had gone such lengths in
their declarations of hostility that they feel it


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awkward perhaps to come over; but the
amendments proposed by Congress have
brought over almost all their followers. * * * The little vautrien, Rhode Island, will come
over with a little more time.—
To Marquis Lafayette. Washington ed. iii, 132. Ford ed., v, 152.
(N.Y., April. 1790)