2951. FEDERALISM, Prostrated.—
The
Hartford Convention, the victory of Orleans,
the peace of Ghent, prostrated the name of
federalism. Its votaries abandoned it through
shame and mortification and now call themselves
republicans. But the name alone is
changed, the principles are the same. * * *
The line of division now, is the preservation
of State rights as reserved in the Constitution,
or by strained constructions of that instrument,
to merge all into a consolidated
government.—
To Marquis Lafayette. Washington ed. vii, 325.
Ford ed., x, 281.
(M.
1823)
