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4823. LOUISIANA, Federalist opposition.—[further continued].

The federal leaders have
had the imprudence to oppose it pertinaciously,
which has given an occasion to a great proportion
of their quondam honest adherents
to abandon them, and join the republican
standard. They feel themselves now irretrievably
lost.—
To James Monroe. Ford ed., viii, 287.
(W. Jan. 1804)