7380. REPUBLICANS, French victories and.—
I think we may safely rely that the
Duke of Brunswick has retreated; and it is
certainly possible enough that between famine,
disease, and a country abounding with
defiles, he may suffer some considerable catastrophe.
The monocrats here [Philadelphia]
still affect to disbelieve all this, while
the republicans are rejoicing and taking to
themselves the name of Jacobins, which two
months ago was fixed on them by way of
stigma.—
To John Francis Mercer. Washington ed. iii, 495.
Ford ed., vi, 147.
(Pa.,
Dec. 1792)
