Note 970 — Chapter IV · (continued 2)
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The reception of Bishop’s oration by the Federalists gave strong impulse in that direction. The pamphleteers and newspaper scribblers of that political persuasion promptly attacked him. Noah Webster replied to Bishop in A Rod for the Fool’s Back. “Connecticutensis” wrote and published Three Letters to Abraham Bishop. Cf. Oration delivered at Wallingford, on the 11th of March, 1801, pp. 103 et seq.