The Age of the Democratic Revolution. A Political History of Europe and America, 1760-1800
758 Chapter XXXI The point is, of course, that both parties in America, far from being interested in an exact understanding of e ...
America 759 place of a league of states; but it created also, for the first time in America, a theater for popular politics on a ...
760 Chapter XXXI fighting that old bugbear of Americans, King George III. News of this develop- ment came almost simultaneously ...
America 761 most immediate impact, that if Britain and the coalition defeated the French Re- public the American Republic would ...
762 Chapter XXXI popular origin. They were not yet a political party but only a step in that direction; most of them disappeared ...
America 763 thirds of the democrats in America, said Cobbett, were foreigners who had landed since the war. Their very language ...
764 Chapter XXXI posed to democrats everywhere, he befriended Thomas Paine and Wolfe Tone in Paris. He was so eager to please th ...
America 765 sented themselves, their candidates, their opponents, and the issues in terms of the struggle raging in Europe. For ...
766 Chapter XXXI Adams was elected, but only by 71 electoral votes to Jefferson’s 68. Jefferson became vice- president, but the ...
America 767 shaken in their previous sympathies, and blamed the trouble with France on the British orientation of American polic ...
768 Chapter XXXI nel and its policies, often in extravagant and abusive terms. The Federalists, how- ever, had not yet accepted ...
America 769 Star, and later the New York Timepiece; Joseph Gales moved from the Sheffield Register to a paper in North Carolina; ...
770 Chapter XXXI tholicism was being called into question. The French invasion of Holland and Switzerland, two Protestant countr ...
America 771 efforts was reprinted in London 1799: What is our situation? and What our prospects, or a demonstration of the insid ...
772 Chapter XXXI men clamoring for all- out war against that infidel republic, for which armies were being raised, American citi ...
America 773 ble to practice these irenic virtues. The fact that the central government had little power anyway, in contrast to E ...
774 Chapter XXXI pounded by a third party, the German historian Otto Vossler, who thought that the “American mission,” like the ...
CHAPTER XXXII CLIMAX AND DÉNOUEMENT And where shall we find this Dramatic Monarch who shall have the courage to allow himself to ...
776 Chapter XXXII transmuted into something else, the authoritarian, innovating, dynamic, and yet compromising semi- monarchism ...
Climax and Dénouement 777 Douai, and Treilhard, along with their foreign minister Talleyrand—would greatly prefer to remain at p ...
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