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3463. GERRY (Elbridge), Federalist hatred of.—

As soon as it was known that
you had consented to stay in Paris, there was
no measure observed in the execrations of the
war party. They openly wished you might be
guillotined, or sent to Cayenne, or anything
else.—
To Elbridge Gerry. Washington ed. iv, 273. Ford ed., vii, 335.
(Pa., Jan. 1799)