On April 6, 1797, Uriah Tracy wrote a letter to Alexander Hamilton. Tracy was a senator from Connecticut and an ardent Federalist. A few weeks prior, news reports had arrived that the French Directory had kicked Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, the American Minister, out of the country. Outraged, many of the High Federalists (the more extreme faction of the party) began calling for war. Republicans (not the same party as today, instead the Jeffersonian Republicans or Democratic Republicans) urged peace and reconciliation.
America is better than its individual parts. We forget why so many come to America in the first place. After all isn't it to become an American? Rally around the flag indeed! Huzzah!!
Nicely written and reasoned, thanks.
America is better than its individual parts. We forget why so many come to America in the first place. After all isn't it to become an American? Rally around the flag indeed! Huzzah!!