But for Hamilton we might be a handful of petty States, in discordant confederation or perpetual war; but for Jefferson, a prey to the class jealousy which unsettles the social relations and threatens the political existence of European States.
FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 4: Lord Sheffield to Mr.Abbott, November 6, 1812.
_Correspondence of Lord Colchester_, ii.

409.] [Footnote 5: Gallatin later described Jackson as he first saw him in his seat in the House: "A tall, lank, uncouth looking individual, with long locks of hair hanging over his brows and face, while a queue hung down his back tied in an eelskin.

The dress of this individual was singular, his manners and deportment that of a backwoodsman." Bartlett's _Reminiscences of Gallatin_.] [Footnote 6: The phrase "stop the wheels of government" originated with "Peter Porcupine" (William Cobbett) and was on every tongue.] [Footnote 7: Charles C.Pinckney, when ambassador to France, 1796.] [Footnote 8: Jefferson to William Duane, March 28, 1811.

Jefferson's _Works_, vol.v.p.

574.] [Footnote 9: Jefferson was born in 1743, Madison in 1751, Gallatin in 1761.].