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7359. REPUBLICANS, Divisions among.—

The operations of this session of
Congress, when known among the people at
large, will consolidate them. We shall now be
so strong that we shall certainly split again; for
freemen, thinking differently and speaking and
acting as they think, will form into classes of
sentiment, but it must be under another name.
That of federalism is become so odious that no
party can rise under it.—
To Joel Barlow. Washington ed. iv, 437. Ford ed., viii, 150.
(W. May. 1802)