Demos Crestfallen or Thunderstruck, Etc.
Document 1798Washington advocates the mouth of the Shenandoah River as the ideal location for the proposed arsenals and cannon foundries. He observes that the Democrats were thunderstruck by the dispatches from American envoys but have been revived by the misconduct of the [Adams] administration although their harmless chit-chat is less criticism than might have been expected.
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Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Washington advocates the mouth of the Shenandoah River as the ideal location for the proposed arsenals and cannon foundries. He observes that the Democrats were thunderstruck by the dispatches from American envoys but have been revived by the misconduct of the [Adams] administration although their harmless chit-chat is less criticism than might have been expected.
Date
05/06/1798
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Mount Vernon
Repository
Collection
Document number
1798050640001
Page start
1
Note
Cited in McHenry to Washington, 06/26/1798.
Notable persons
James McHenry
George Washington
Congress
enemy
Demos [Democrats]
Mr. [Benjamin Franklin] Bache
Notable locations
Philadelphia
Mount Vernon
mouth of Shenandoah River
federal city
Notable items
arsenals
cannon foundries
place of immense strength
inland navigation
shipping port at the federal city
water transportation to the western country
furnaces
forges
inexhaustible supply of water
harmless chit-chat
misconduct of the administration
chastisement
greater evils