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2186. DENNIE (Joseph), A Monarchist.—

Among the [Federalist] writers, Dennie,
the editor of the Portfolio, who was a kind
of oracle with them, and styled “the Addison of
America,” openly avowed his preference of
monarchy over all other forms of government,
prided himself on the avowal, and maintained
it by argument freely and without reserve in
his publications.—
To William Short. Washington ed. vii, 390. Ford ed., x, 334.
(M. 1825)