2980. FEDERALISTS, Republicans and.—[further continued] .
The federal sect of republicans
* * * differ from us only in the
shades of power to be given to the Executive,
being, with us attached to republican government.
The Essex junto and their associate
monocrats in every part of the Union, wish
to sap the Republic by fraud, if they cannot
destroy it by force, and to erect an English
monarchy in its place; some of them (as Mr.
Adams) thinking its corrupt parts should be
cleansed away, others (as Hamilton) thinking
that it would make it an impracticable
machine.—
To Levi Lincoln. Washington ed. iv, 398.
Ford ed., viii, 67.
(W.
July. 1801)
