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Directions: Students will read the quotes and determine if the source was a Federalist or a Democratic-Republican. Students will check the proper column. Students will indicate in the correct column what evidence they used in the quote to support their deduction.

QUOTE / FED / DEM-
REP / EVIDENCE TO SUPPPORT CLASSIFICATION
1. “The right of suffrage is here [MD] considered invaluable because in addition it its usual attributes, it levels the distinctions of society, gratifies vulgar curiosity, indulges the plebeian taste for slander, and furnishes the means of riotous indulgence without expense.”
2. “Agriculture of the United States—May it ever maintain its merited influences in our public council.”
3. “We humbly conceive the Spirit of American Liberty breathes a different air, from this law [Alien and Sedition Acts].”
4. “What honest man can justly be alarmed at such a law [Sedition Act], or can wish unlimited permission to be given for the to be given for the publication of malicious falsehoods, and with intentions most base?”
5. “It is a matter of surprise and indignation to us, that a system of taxation so oppressive should, in the very infancy of our Government have received the approbation of a majority of our Representat6ives. They certainly were no[t] sufficiently acquainted with the genius, situation[n] and circumstances of their constituents.”
6. “The local interest of a State ought in every cast to give way to the interests of the Union. For when a sacrifice of one or the other is necessary, the former becomes only apparent, partial interest, and should yield, on the principle that the smaller good ought never to oppose the greater good.
7. “While we have land to labor then, let us never wish to see our citizens occupied at a work bench, or twirling a distaff…For general operations of manufacture, let our workshops remain in Europe.”
8. “ The great River Mississippi—While the produce of our western clime glides gently down its stream, may the inhabitants of both its banks cultivate the luxuriant soil under the pleasing shade of the Tree of Liberty.”
8. “General Washington, and the Federal Army; May they be like the sun when it goth [sic] forth in its might.”
9. “There shall be no TITLES used or allowed in this society, except which are descriptive of some office actually held in it; to which title, so descriptive of office, the general name of Citizen shall be prefixed.”
10. In a few days, the question will be seriously and strenuously made whether the experiment of a federal republic under religious, moral, and steadfast politicians tracing the high road to order, dignity, glory and independence is still to be essayed; or whether we be willing to submit to the Gallic domination of an acknowledged Deist.”
11. “It gives us pleasure to announce the triumph of reason and justice, over the spirit of the party in the acquittal of Judge Chase.”
12. “The extinction of the Monarchy:--May the next generation know kings only by the page of history, and wonder that such monsters were ever permitted to exist.”
13. “One great error is that we suppose mankind more honest than they are. Our prevailing passions are ambition and interest; and it will be the duty of a wise government to avail itself of those passions, in order to make them subservient to the public good.”
14. “The tendency of a national bank is to increase public and private credit… (the national bank) facilitates and extends the operations of commerce among individuals. Industry is increased, commodities are multiplied, agriculture and manufactures flourish; and herein consists the true wealth and prosperity of a state.”
15. “The Federal is in truth a foreign government.”
QUOTE / FED / DEM-
REP / EVIDENCE TO SUPPPORT CLASSIFICATION
1. “The right of suffrage is here [MD] considered invaluable because in addition it its usual attributes, it levels the distinctions of society, gratifies vulgar curiosity, indulges the plebeian taste for slander, and furnishes the means of riotous indulgence without expense.” / X / Vulgar curiosity, plebeian tastes for slander, riotous indulgencecommon man characteristics that are negative
Letter by Oliver Wolcott to Fisher Ames, 1800
2. “Agriculture of the United States—May it ever maintain its merited influences in our public council.” / X / Stresses agriculture which was a Dem-Rep virtue. Toast reported in Baltimore Daily Intelligencer, July 7, 1794
3. “We humbly conceive the Spirit of American Liberty breathes a different air, from this law [Alien and Sedition Acts].” / X / Opposes the laws.
Petition of Aliens in Lancaster County PA (NARA)
4. “What honest man can justly be alarmed at such a law [Sedition Act], or can wish unlimited permission to be given for the to be given for the publication of malicious falsehoods, and with intentions most base?” / X / Sees nothing wrong with the Sedition Act because it will only punish the dishonest.
Timothy Pickering
5. “It is a matter of surprise and indignation to us, that a system of taxation so oppressive should, in the very infancy of our Government have received the approbation of a majority of our Representat6ives. They certainly were no[t] sufficiently acquainted with the genius, situation[n] and circumstances of their constituents.” / x / Indicates taxes are oppressive.
Manuscript of Minutes Sept. 4, 1794 at for a meeting of a Dem-Rep Society in Pennsylvania
6. “The local interest of a State ought in every cast to give way to the interests of the Union. For when a sacrifice of one or the other is necessary, the former becomes only apparent, partial interest, and should yield, on the principle that the smaller good ought never to oppose the greater good. / X / National government supreme over state government.
Alexander Hamilton speech to NY Ratifying Convention, June 1780
7. “While we have land to labor then, let us never wish to see our citizens occupied at a work bench, or twirling a distaff…For general operations of manufacture, let our workshops remain in Europe.” / X / As long as we can farm, we don’t need/want factories.
Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, 1784.
8. “ The great River Mississippi—While the produce of our western clime glides gently down its stream, may the inhabitants of both its banks cultivate the luxuriant soil under the pleasing shade of the Tree of Liberty.” / X / Expansion of land and rights
Toast in Bennington, VT celebrating the LA Purchase, Political Observatory (Walpole, NH) May 26, 1804
8. “General Washington, and the Federal Army; May they be like the sun when it goth [sic] forth in its might.” / X / Indicates the military should be strong.
The Spectator, July 17, 1799 (Northampton, NY
9. “There shall be no TITLES used or allowed in this society, except which are descriptive of some office actually held in it; to which title, so descriptive of office, the general name of Citizen shall be prefixed.” / X / Opposed titles which were often considered related to monarchies, used Citizen which was popular in France
Const of Democratic Society of the city of New York, 1794
10. In a few days, the question will be seriously and strenuously made whether the experiment of a federal republic under religious, moral, and steadfast politicians tracing the high road to order, dignity, glory and independence is still to be essayed; or whether we be willing to submit to the Gallic domination of an acknowledged Deist.” / X / This is opposed to TJ’s election in 1800. Use of terms like submit to the Gallic domination of Acknowledged Deist
Gazette of the United States, 1800
11. “It gives us pleasure to announce the triumph of reason and justice, over the spirit of the party in the acquittal of Judge Chase.” / X / Celebrates Chase’s beating impeachment.
O’Connor’s The Herald,(Norfolk & Portsmouth) March 9, 1805
12. “The extinction of the Monarchy:--May the next generation know kings only by the page of history, and wonder that such monsters were ever permitted to exist.” / X / Opposes the idea of dynastic and absolute rulers
Toast, Democratic-Republican Society of PA, May 1, 1794
13. “One great error is that we suppose mankind more honest than they are. Our prevailing passions are ambition and interest; and it will be the duty of a wise government to avail itself of those passions, in order to make them subservient to the public good.” / X / Shows the negative side of the common man.
Alexander Hamilton in 1787
14. “The tendency of a national bank is to increase public and private credit… (the national bank) facilitates and extends the operations of commerce among individuals. Industry is increased, commodities are multiplied, agriculture and manufactures flourish; and herein consists the true wealth and prosperity of a state.” / X / Pro national BUS and manufacturing which will make the nation rich
Alexander Hamilton, Report on Manufactures, 1790
15. “The Federal is in truth a foreign government.” / X / Is not complimentary of the National government.
Letter by Thomas Jefferson to Robert Garnett, Feb. 14, 1824