[275] _Cf._ _The Writings of Thomas Jefferson_, vol. vii, pp. 127 _et seq._, letter of Jefferson to Thomas Pinckney. Even Jefferson’s steadfast faith and loyalty to France was momentarily put to rout. [276] _Cf._ Morison, _The Life and Letters of Harrison Gray Otis_, vol. i, p. 69, letter of Otis to Gen. William Heath. This letter was published in full in the _Massachusetts Mercury_ of April 17, 1798. [277] Morison, _The Life and Letters of Harrison Gray Otis_, vol. i, p. 69. [278] _The Works of John Adams_, vol. viii, pp. 615, 620. President Adams was fully persuaded that French notions of domination “comprehended all America, both _north_ and _south_”. (_Ibid._) _Cf._ also _Annals of Congress_, vol. vii, p. 1147, speech of Otis on Foreign Intercourse; _American Historical Association Report for 1896_, p. 807, Higginson’s letter to Pickering. [279] One of the pamphlets of the day, frequently referred to, much quoted in the newspapers, and evidently much read, bore the horrific title: _The Cannibals’ Progress; or the Dreadful Horrors of French Invasion, as displayed by the Republican Officers and Soldiers, in their Perfidy, rapacity, ferociousness & brutality, exercised towards the Innocent inhabitants of Germany. Translated from the German, by Anthony Aufrer(e), Esq._ ... _The Connecticut Courant_, in announcing a new edition of this work as just off the press, offered the following description of its character: “This work contains a circumstantial account of the excesses committed by the French Army in Suabia. At the present moment, when our country is in danger of being overrun by the same nation, our people ought to be prepared for those things, which they must expect, in case such an event should happen. The pamphlet should be owned by every man, and read in every family. They will there find, from an authentic source, that the consequences of being conquered by France, or even subjected to their government, are more dreadful than the heart of man can conceive. Murder, robbery, burning of towns, and the violation of female chastity, in forms too dreadful to relate, in instances too numerous to be counted, are among them. Five thousand copies of this work were sold in Philadelphia in a few days, and another edition of ten thousand is now in the press in that city.” _Cf._ the issue of the _Courant_ for July 2, 1798. Another book of horrors which deserves mention in this connection, although it came to public attention in America a little later, was the following: _The History of the Destruction of the Helvetic Union and Liberty_. By J. Mallet Du Pan. This work was first printed in England in 1798, and the following March was reprinted in Boston. A sentence or two taken from the author’s preface will convey a fair notion of its nature: “In the Helvetic History, every Government may read its own destiny, and learn its duty. If there be yet one that flatters itself that its existence is reconcilable with that of the French Republic, let