The Reign Of Terror That Raged In America During The Latter End Of The
Washington Administration, And The Whole Of That Of Adams, Is Enveloped
In Mystery To Me.
The Reign of Terror that raged in America during the latter end of the
Washington Administration, and the whole of that of Adams, is enveloped
in mystery to me. That there were men in the Government hostile to
the representative system, was once their oast, though it is now their
overthrow, and therefore the fact is established against them.
-- Thomas Paine, Third Letter to the Citizens of the United States, 1802
