antifederalists

For his own part, aside from his wry awareness that, in Doctor Johnson's phrase, "we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes," Hamilton abhorred the version of liberty that the "antifederalists" increasingly embraced-the liberté of the French Revolution, which began two months after Washington took office and filled Hamilton with a "foreboding of ill."

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Havens once said he cared “not a fig” about going to the convention, but he dreaded the “ridicule” he and Smith would suffer for being left off the Federalist ticket because they were thought to be “antifederalists.”

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Havens once said he cared “not a fig” about going to the convention, but he dreaded the “ridicule” he and Smith would suffer for being left off the Federalist ticket because they were thought to be “antifederalists.”

Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

Havens once said he cared “not a fig” about going to the convention, but he dreaded the “ridicule” he and Smith would suffer for being left off the Federalist ticket because they were thought to be “antifederalists.”

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A rejection would have alarmed “well meaning antifederalists elsewhere,” done no harm to the Federalists, raised the indignation of neighboring states, and led to a “speedy reconsideration of the subject.”

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A rejection would have alarmed “well meaning antifederalists elsewhere,” done no harm to the Federalists, raised the indignation of neighboring states, and led to a “speedy reconsideration of the subject.”

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Theophilus Parsons loved to tell the people in his law office, including the young John Quincy Adams, about the “maneouveres” he and his colleagues used “in and out of the convention” to outwit the “antifederalists.”

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Theophilus Parsons loved to tell the people in his law office, including the young John Quincy Adams, about the “maneouveres” he and his colleagues used “in and out of the convention” to outwit the “antifederalists.”

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The following July he got into a scrape with some local “antifederalists” who attacked him with axes and left him “on the ground, almost void of speech, and insensible,” with blood pouring from his mouth, nose, and ears “in considerable quantities.”

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The following July he got into a scrape with some local “antifederalists” who attacked him with axes and left him “on the ground, almost void of speech, and insensible,” with blood pouring from his mouth, nose, and ears “in considerable quantities.”

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