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Portland, Cumberland County, Maine
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Editorial defends New England Federalists against a Democratic paper's criticism likening them to French royalists in La Vendée. Notes the violent fate of La Vendée inhabitants and includes a correspondent's satirical card game metaphor rebutting claims about Federalists and anti-Federalists.
Merged-components note: These sequential components form a single coherent editorial discussing political opinions on New-England, with the second responding directly to the quoted material in the first.
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"The (Baltimore) American," a democratic paper, in noticing Gov. Strong's election, has the following remarks upon the people of New-England:
Proud, over-bearing and dogmatical in their opinions, devoted entirely to self interest, they must first feel the effects of a change in the administration before they become its panegyrists. Until then, we must view the New-England states as a La Vendee of America. and be prepared to encounter their bitter hostility to the general administration."
It is hardly necessary to remark, that the inhabitants of La Vendee in France, during the revolution, were murdered for their loyalty and their religion.
A correspondent, observing a late remark of some Jacobin writer on the comparative situation of federalists and anti-federalists, that the former were high, jack and the game, and the latter low, thinks that the writer is in part right. He is willing to allow that they hold the knave; and for some time past is pretty certain that they have played the deuce, but persons, who have seen both hands, think the game is not yet decided.
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Defense Of New England Federalists Against Democratic Criticism
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Pro Federalist, Anti Democratic, Satirical Rebuttal
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