FEDERAL REPUBLICANISM, DISPLAYED IN TWO DISCOURSES, PREACHED ON THE DAY OF THE STATE FAST AT CHELMSFORD, AND ON THE DAY OF THE NATIONAL FAST AT CONCORD, IN APRIL, 1799.
Boston: Printed by John Russell, 1799. 35, [1- bookseller advertisement] pp, with the half title. Disbound, rubberstamp at blank upper corner of half title. Else Very Good.
"The enemy is sowing tares among our wheat." The enemy is the French, who "are approaching us with their strange gods" and seeking "the overthrow of Church and State." Though exerting "manly efforts in the American cause" during the Revolution, France assisted solely from self-interested motives. France's "insidious movements" after the War, seeking to act as "a committee of insurrection in the world" and an "insurgent movement," are a threat to American institutions.
Packard denounces "the artful duplicity and political intrigues," "the schemes and cruelties of French revolutionists"; defends the Sedition Law; and urges that newspapers uttering "seditious" sentiments be "crushed by the power of our national authority."
Evans 36023. Item #34770
Price: $450.00