with hopes of success." "While the fiery Hotspurs of the State vociferate
their _French babble_ of the natural equality of man, the insulted negro
will be constantly stimulated to cast away his cords, and to sharpen his
pike." "It is, moreover, believed, though not positively known, that a
great many of our profligate and abandoned whites (who are distinguished
by the burlesque appellation of _Democrats_) are implicated with the
blacks, and would have joined them if they had commenced their
operations.... The Jacobin printers and their friends are panic-struck.
Never was terror more strongly depicted in the countenances of men."
These extracts from three different Federalist newspapers show the
amiable emotions of that side of the house; while Democratic Duane, in
the _Aurora_, could find no better repartee than to attribute the whole
trouble to the policy of the administration in renewing commercial
intercourse with San Domingo.

I have discovered in the Norfolk _Epitome of the Times_, for Oct. 9,
1800, a remarkable epistle written from Richmond Jail by the unfortunate
Callender himself. He indignantly denies the charges against the
Democrats, of complicity in dangerous plots, boldly retorting them upon
the Federalists. "An insurrection at this critical moment by the negroes
of the Southern States would have thrown every thing into confusion, and
consequently it was to have prevented the choice of electors in the whole
or the greater part of the States to the south of the Potomac. Such a
disaster must have tended directly to injure the interests of Mr.
Jefferson, and to promote the slender possibility of a second election of
Mr. Adams." And, to be sure, the _United-States Gazette_ followed up the
thing with a good, single-minded party malice which cannot be surpassed
in these present days, ending in such altitudes of sublime coolness as
the following: "The insurrection of the negroes in the Southern States,
which appears to be organized on the true French plan, must be decisive,