Union was the burden of their song; and they took a prophetic view of the stormy future, if thirteen independent States should divide this territory between them. "Shall lordly Hudson part contending powers, And broad Potomac lave two hostile shores? Must Alleghany's sacred summits bear The impious bulwarks of perpetual war? His hundred streams receive your heroes slain, And bear your sons inglorious to the main?" We, _miserrimi_, have lived to see it, and to see modern Shayites vote to establish such a state of things forever. When the new government was firmly settled and found to work well, the same class of men who had opposed the Union formed the Anti-Federal, Democratic, or French party. The Hartford school were Federalists, of course. Theodore Dwight and Alsop, assisted by Dr. Hopkins, published in the local papers "The Political Greenhouse" and "The Echo,"--an imitation of "The Anti-Jacobin,"--"to check the progress of false taste in writing, and to stem the torrent of Jacobinism in America and the hideous morality of revolutionary madness." It was a place and time when, in the Hartford vocabulary, "Patriot stood synonymous with rogue"; and their versified squibs were let off at men rather than at measures. As a specimen of their mode of treatment, let us take Matthew Lyon, first an Irish redemptioner bought by a farmer in Derby, then an Anti-Federal champion and member of Congress from Vermont; once famous for publishing Barlow's letter to Senator Baldwin,--for his trial under the Alien and Sedition Act,--for the personal difficulty when "He seized the tongs To avenge his wrongs, And Griswold thus engaged." The Hartford poets notice him thus:-- "This beast within a few short years Was purchased for a yoke of steers; But now the wise Vermonters say He's worth six hundred cents a day." Other leaders of the Anti-Federal party fare no better. Mr. Jefferson's literary and scientific whims came in for a share of ridicule. "Great sire of stories past belief; Historian of the Mingo chief; Philosopher of Indians' hair; Inventor of a rocking-chair; The correspondent of Mazzei, And Banneker, less black than he," _et seq._ The paper containing this paragraph had the felicity of being quoted in Congress by the Honorable John Nicholas, of Virginia, to prove that Connecticut wished to lead the United States into a war with France. The honorable gentleman read on until he came to the passage,-- "Each Jacobin began to stir, And sat as though on chestnut-burr," when he stopped short. Mr. Dana of Connecticut took up the quotation and finished it, to the great amusement of the House.