The Antigallican; Or, the Lover of His Own Country. in a Series of Pieces Partly Heretofore Published and Partly New, Wherein French Influence, and False Patriotism, Are Fully and Fairly Displayed (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1798 Excerpt: ... On the firft rumour of Blount's detection, all his clan, the whole horde of falfe patriots, from the heart at Philadelphia to the extremities in Georgia and Maine, appeared in a ftate of convuliion. Every nerve in the Jacobin body was violently agitated. Actuated by we foul, moved by ons impulfe, they inftamly refolvegeneroufly to facrifice their co-patriot, Blount, and lay his fins at the door of the Britilh minifter. In doing this, vith their ufual cunning and fore. fight, they accomplifh two important objects; they fcreen from deferved odium their patrons and mafters, the French directory, and they heighten the popular prejudices againft their old enemies the Britifh miniftry. Every paltry kribbler, from the Aurora to the Chronicle, adopts the fame arguments, ufes the fame language, purfues the lame fyftem. They content themfelves with bold alfertions, and oblique infinuations-They defpife the ordinary-weaponsof fact, argument and common fenfe. In oppofition to their charge againft the Britifh minifter, it has been faidby writers at Philadelphia, in New York and at Bofton, vithforceandenergy, that Blount was a Jacobin, a pfeudo patriot, a hater of the.federal government, a parti.an of France, a reviler and bitter calumniator of Great Britain, fenator from a Jacobin ftate, a ftate mad with French enthufiafm, that he was Ultimate with Mr. Jefferfon and a promoter of his election, that he was a ftranger to the Britifh minifter, the confidential friend of chevalier Yrujo, the Spanifh minifter, that he is the brother of Tom Blounr, ike gentleman, one of the hotteft advocates of French lenity; the bofom friend of Butler, Giles, Gallatin, and all the French party; that Pierce Butler and T-Blount were his bail; Dallas and Ingerfoll, two Gallico-American patriots...