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1338. COCKADES, Politics and.—[continued].

In the first moments of
the tumult in Philadelphia, the cockade assumed
by one party was mistaken to be the tricolor.
It was the old blue and red, adopted in some
places in an early part of the Revolutionary
war. It is laid aside, but the black is still frequent.—
To James Madison. Ford ed., vii, 253.
(Pa., May. 1798)