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7354. REPUBLICANS, Aims of.—[continued].

The federalists wished
for everything which would approach our
new government to a monarchy. The republicans
to preserve it essentially republican.
This was the true origin of the division, and
remains still the essential principle of difference
between the two parties.—
Notes on Marshall's Life of Washington. Washington ed. ix, 480. Ford ed., ix, 263.
(M. 1809)

See Federalists and Parties.