7395. REPUBLICANS, Sympathy with France.—
Parties seem to have taken a very
well defined form in this quarter. The old
tories, joined by our merchants who trade on
British capital, paper dealers, and the idle
rich of the great commercial towns, are with
the kings. All other descriptions with the
French. The war has kindled and brought
forward the two parties with an ardor which
our interests merely, could never excite.—
To James Monroe.
Ford ed., vi, 281.
(Pa.,
June. 1793)
See Federalists and Monarchy.
