Note 1231 — Chapter XII
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For instance see the Aurora's editorial on women in the army, January 14, 1800; and see titles of imaginary books editorially suggested for use by the various Federalist leaders, especially Hamilton, Harper, and Gouverneur Morris, in ib., May 10, 1800. On August 21 it described some Federalist leaders as "completely bankrupt of character as well as fortune."
Although it did not equal the extravagance of the Republican newspapers, the Federalist press was also violent. See, for instance, a satirical poem "by an Hibernian and an Alien" in the Alexandria Advertiser, reprinted in the Washington Federalist of February 12, 1801, of which the last verse runs:—
"With J[effer]son, greatest of men, Our President next we will dash on. Republican marriages then, And drowning boats will be in fashion. Co-alitions, tri-color we'll form 'Twixt white Men, Mulattos, and Negroes. The banks of the treasury we'll storm— Oh! how we'll squeeze the old Quakers, Philosophy is a fine thing!"
The familiar campaign arguments were, of course, incessantly reiterated as: "The Government" cost only "five million dollars ... before the British treaty"; now it costs "fifteen millions. Therefore every man who paid one dollar taxes then pays three dollars now." (Aurora, Oct. 30, 1800.)