2964. FEDERALISTS. Leaders of.—[continued].
There are some characters
who have been too prominent to retract,
too proud and impassioned to relent, too
greedy after office and profit to relinquish
their longings, and who have covered their
devotion to monarchism under the mantle of
federalism, who never can be cured of their
enmities. These are incurable maniacs, for
whom the hospitable doors of Bedlam are
ready to open, but they are permitted to walk
abroad while they refrain from personal assault.—
To Timothy Bloodworthy. Washington ed. iv, 524.
(W.
Jan. 1804)
