[6] Ib. 133-39.
[7] The Fairfax transaction.
[8] The phrase used by the Federalists to designate the opponents of democracy.
[9] See vol. ii, 24-27, 92-96, 106-07, 126-28, of this work.
[10] Ames to Dwight, Oct. 31, 1803, Works of Fisher Ames: Ames, i, 330; and see Ames to Gore, Nov. 16, 1803, ib. 332; also Ames to Quincy, Feb. 12, 1806, ib. 360.
[11] Rutledge to Otis, July 29, 1806, Morison: Life and Letters of Harrison Gray Otis, i, 282.
[12] The student should examine the letters of Federalists collected in Henry Adams's New-England Federalism; those in the Life and Correspondence of Rufus King; in Lodge's Life and Letters of George Cabot; in the Works of Fisher Ames and in Morison's Otis.
[13] See Adams: History of the United States, iv, 29.
[14] Once in a long while an impartial view was expressed: "I think myself sometimes in an Hospital of Lunaticks, when I hear some of our Politicians eulogizing Bonaparte because he humbles the English; & others worshipping the latter, under an Idea that they will shelter us, & take us under the Shadow of their Wings. They would join, rather, to deal us away like Cattle." (Peters to Pickering, Feb. 4, 1807, Pickering MSS. Mass. Hist. Soc.)
[15] See Harrowby's Circular, Aug. 9, 1804, American State Papers, Foreign Relations, iii, 266.