7384. REPUBLICANS, Loyalty of.—
Without knowing the views of what is called
the republican party here [Philadelphia], or
having any communication with them, I
could undertake to assure him [President
Washington] from my intimacy with that
party in the late Congress, that there was not
a view in the republican party as spread over
the United States, which went to the frame
of the government; that I believed the next
Congress would attempt nothing material,
but to render their own body independent;
that that party were firm in their dispositions
to support the government; that the maneuvers
of Mr. Genet might produce some little
embarrassment, but that he would be abandoned
by the republicans the moment they
knew the nature of his conduct.—
The Anas. Washington ed. ix, 166.
Ford ed., i, 257.
(Aug. 1793)
