Note 1586 — Chapter XVII · THE REIGN OF TERROR
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Professor Anderson says: ‘The imprisonment of Adams indicates that the Federalists were ready on the slightest provocation to treat opposition to the policy of the Administration, whether federal or state, as crime. That case certainly does much to explain why Jefferson and other Republican leaders could fear that Republican institutions were about to be overthrown.’ American Historical Review, January, 1900, p. 229.