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Allen, John to Deming, Julius, 1798 May 2

Digital Object ID ##1ijhno

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Dates

  • Digitized: 1798 May 2

Summary Note

John Allen reports from Philadelphia to Julius Deming about Congressional reactions to the disclosure to Congress of the XYZ dispatches; provides detailed discussion of the debates in Congress and condemns the behavior of the republican leadership; calls them Jacobins and charges that they betray the country the way Athens’ statesmen sold their nation to Philip the Macedonian; suspicions that some republican congressmen are being bribed by France; warns Connecticut not to elect a Jeffersonian speaker or clerk; urges the Connecticut legislature to submit a petition to President Adams expressing support for his strong stand against France.

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