5844. NEUTRALITY, Impartial.—[further continued].
The line is now drawn
so clearly as to show on one side, 1. The fashionable
circles of Philadelphia, New York.
Boston and Charleston (natural aristocrats).
2. Merchants trading on British capital. 3.
Paper men (all the old tories are found in some
one of the three descriptions). On the other
side are, 1. Merchants trading on their own
capital. 2. Irish merchants. 3. Tradesmen,
mechanics, farmers, and every other possible
description of our citizens.—
To James Madison. Washington ed. iii, 557.
Ford ed., vi, 251.
(May. 1793)
