When Democratic-Republicans in some states refused to enforce federal laws, and even threatened to rebel, Federalists threatened to send the army to force them to capitulate.

This suggests some organised activity of the Federalists to disparage Governor Gerry in particular and the growing Democratic-Republican party in general.

To some, the Dying Hercules seemed to represent a political statement against the British and also the American Federalists.

Meanwhile, the Republicans accused Federalists of destroying republican values, not to mention political support from immigrants, with the Alien and Sedition Acts, some of which were later declared unconstitutional after their expiration by the Supreme Court ; they also accused Federalists of favoring Britain in order to promote aristocratic, anti-republican values.

This may have had some unintended consequences in Massachusetts, where the makeup of the delegation to the House of Representatives changed from 12 Federalists and 2 Republicans to 8 Federalists and 6 Republicans, perhaps the result of backlash on the part of the electorate.

They supported the Federalists against the South in the American Civil War, an unpopular position which, at the time, did some damage to the paper ’ s circulation, though gained readers in the long run when the North won.

After refusing to do so for some time, Adams finally released the report of the affair, resulting in a wave of passionate anti-French sentiment across the U. S. This seriously damaged the Republicans and helped the Federalists win the 1798 elections.

Most former Federalists, such as Daniel Webster, opposed Jackson, although some like James Buchanan supported him.

As early as 1804 some New England Federalists had discussed secession from the Union if the national government became too oppressive.

The conceiver of the idea to unite the other historical entities to stand opposed to Serbia, he worked with Croat Federalists doctors Ivan Lorković and Ante Trumbić for some time.

In 1870, the government fell on the question of the revision of the constitution: Taaffe with Potocki and Johann Nepomuk Berger wished to make some concessions to the Federalists ; the Liberal majority wished to preserve undiminished the authority of the Imperial Council.

Polk was a militant Jeffersonian and a Deist ( some said an atheist ), which put him at loggerheads with much of the family, especially his nephew William Polk's three sons, who were Ezekiel's close Tennessee neighbors, ardent Federalists and orthodox churchmen.

Despite the positive view some Americans had of The French Revolution, it awakened or created anti-French feelings among some Federalists.

Randolph attempted to block Madison's nomination by running James Monroe ; thus gaining the support of Federalists, since Madison was considered Jefferson's staunch political ally.

The Federalists did not even name a candidate, though Rufus King of New York did run in opposition to Monroe under the Federalist banner.

The collapse of the Federalists left Monroe with no organized opposition at the end of his first term, and he ran for reelection unopposed, the only president other than Washington to do so.

* During " Era of Good Feelings " the Democratic Republican Party dominated with no effective opposition from the Federalists, allowing James Monroe to run unopposed in the 1820 presidential election.

A spirit of reconciliation between Republicans and Federalists was well underway when Monroe assumed office in March 1817.

And third, Monroe sought to merge former Federalists with Republicans as a prelude to eliminating party associations altogether from national politics, including his own Republican party.

Monroe pursued this policy dispassionately and without any desire to persecute the Federalists: his purpose was simply to extirpate them from positions of political power, both Federal and State, especially in its New England strongholds.

Here, in the heart of Federalist territory, Monroe gained the primary goal of his tour ; in effect, permitting “ the Federalists by solemn public demonstrations to reaffirm their loyalty to the government and their acceptance of Republican control .” Even in this atmosphere of contrition, Monroe was assiduous in avoiding any remarks or expressions that might chasten or humiliate his hosts.

Monroe ’ s final reconciling with the Federalists was never consummated.

The " Old Republicans ," led by John Randolph of Roanoke, refused to form a coalition with the Federalists and instead set up a separate opposition, since the main Republican leaders ( notably James Madison, Albert Gallatin, James Monroe, John C. Calhoun and Henry Clay ) had in effect adopted Federalist principles by chartering the Second Bank of the United States, promoting internal improvements for transportation, raising tariffs to protect factories, and promoting a strong army and navy after the failures of the War of 1812.

Opposition to Federalists among Democratic-Republicans reached new heights at this time since the Democratic-Republicans had supported France.

The redistricting controversy contributed to Gerry's defeat in 1812 ( once again at the hands of Caleb Strong, whom the Federalists had brought out of retirement ).< ref > Buel, pp. 148 – 149

Disowned by the Federalists and not fully accepted by the Republicans, Adams used his Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard as a new base.

Wood notes that many historians struggle to understand Madison, but he looks at him within his own times — as a nationalist but one with a different conception of what that meant than the Federalists.

While the Republicans were well organized at the state and local levels, the Federalists were disorganized, and suffered a bitter split between their two major leaders, President Adams and Alexander Hamilton.

* In Tom Paine Maru ( 1984 ), entrepreneurs of the Confederacy travel from world to world, exploring the various kinds of messes made by the Federalists who had been shifted back in time and scattered at random over the universe at the conclusion of The Venus Belt.

King was the last presidential candidate to be nominated by the Federalists before their collapse at the end of the First Party System of the United States.

The unraveling of the conspiracy destroyed Blount's reputation at the national level, and touched off a series of accusations between Federalists and Antifederalists.

The last episode saw Greville split with Alan and become part of The Progressive Federalists who were soundly thrashed by Alan's New Patriotic Party at the polls.

In the end they stopped short of calls for secession, but when their report appeared at the same time as news of the great American victory at the Battle of New Orleans, the Federalists were politically ruined permanently.

In 1802, Pickering and a band of Federalists, agitated at the lack of support for Federalists, attempted to gain support for the secession of New England from the Jeffersonian United States.

Franklin was put up by the Legislature for re-election in December, 1804, but Republicans at the time were divided in their support of him and Federalists did not think highly of him, and he was defeated.

Richard Corbett's activities in the European Students at Oxford led on to him being elected first to the youth board of the European Movement in Britain and then to the international presidency of the youth wing of the European Movement and of the Union of European Federalists, the Young European Federalists ( JEF ), a post he held from 1979 to 1981, drafting their Manifesto which was the first to coin the phrase " democratic deficit " in relation to the European Parliament's then lack of any power over European legislation.

It first appeared in the manifesto of the Young European Federalists adopted at their congress in Berlin in 1977.

Adept at moderating the sometimes harsh political conflict between Federalists and Democratic-Republicans and popular in Massachusetts, the Northampton native navigated the state through the early years of the 19th century as the rest of the country became progressively more Democratic.

In their assaults on the Federalists ' national agenda, Old Republicans perfected a language of opposition that provided the template for almost all future critiques of federal power: fear of centralized power, burdening taxpayers, taxing one locale for the benefit of another, creating self-perpetuating bureaucracies, distant governments undermining local authority, and subsidizing the schemes of the wealthy at public expense.

In 1812 he ran unsuccessfully for the US Senate, losing due to a recent shift from being a Federalist to a Republican at a time when Vermont was controlled by the Federalists.

General Winfield Scott, after the war, blamed Madison's policy of ignoring Federalists, who in New England constituted the best educated class, when granting regular army commissions in New England.