7356. REPUBLICANS, Belief of.—
[The
Republicans] believed that men, enjoying in
ease and security the full fruits of their own
industry, enlisted by all their interests on the
side of law and order, habituated to think for
themselves, and to follow their reason as
their guide, would be more easily and safely
governed than with minds nourished in error,
and vitiated and debased, as in Europe, by
ignorance, indigence and oppression.—
To William Johnson. Washington ed. vii, 292.
Ford ed., x, 227.
(M.
1823)
