7920. SLANDER, Political.—
The federal
leaders have gone too far ever to change.
Their bitterness increases with their desperation.
They are trying slanders now which
nothing could prompt but a gall which blinds
their judgments as well as their consciences.
I shall take no other revenge, than, by a steady
pursuit of economy and peace, and by the establishment
of republican principles in substance
and in form, to sink federalism into an abyss
from which there shall be no resurrection for
it.—
To Levi Lincoln. Washington ed. iv, 451.
Ford ed., viii, 175.
(W.
Oct. 1802)
