Cohesion Quotes
“Factions” was the word for Political Parties then. Henry, George Washington and other founding fathers were opposed to political parties, while Madison and others thought they needed to controlled. Jefferson thought parties to be important. So there was no uniform consensus among the Founding Fathers. This has his last public speech before his death.
This is a very noteworthy quotation. The reason is that in America, the extreme right wing accuses liberals of being communists or supporters of communism. However, here one of the two major Communists in the world, condemns liberalism and states that liberals are the enemy of communism.
At the time he was probably sincere as the whites—especially the farmers—had a great deal of know-how and provided a backbone for the economy. However, as he lost popularity, in order to hang on to power, he established a dictatorship and 20 years later pitted the Blacks against the whites destroying the economy and the country in the process. See related quote.