2178. DEMOCRATIC SOCIETIES, Hamilton's Hostility to.—
The servile copyist
of Mr. Pitt thought he, too, must have his
alarms his insurrections, and plots against
the Constitution. Hence the incredible fact
that the freedom of association, of conversation,
and of the press, should in the fifth year
of our government, have been attacked under
the form of a denunciation of the Democratic
Societies, a measure which even England, as
boldly as she is advancing to the establishment
of an absolute monarchy, has not yet
been bold enough to attempt.—
To James Monroe.
Ford ed., vii, 16.
(M.
May. 1795)
