harmful influence Quotes
Even at this early time, it was clear that whites had brought numerous diseases that decimated the Indians. Alcohol and disease killed many more native Americans than all the wars—intertribal and with the whites—ever did. Neolin warned but did not have more than regional influence.
“he” refers to Thomas Jefferson his political enemy. This quotation illustrates two things. First that the Vice Presidency was perceived as a minor post with no power even by the generation who wrote it. Second, that many of the Founding Fathers viewed political parties—then called “factions”—as dangerous. The “Federalists” were not really an organized political party and certainly they did not think of them as such. But Jefferson thought differently and America’s first and now oldest political party was created by him and his colleagues who thought that the Federalists were not leading the country in the right direction. Note that Adams used the term “poisoned”.
Franklin was America’s preeminent diplomat. He was particularly resented by the British authorities because he had achieved so much fame as a “British” scientist and man of letters, had been recognized and decorated by British institutions, was wealthy and very popular in London and all over Europe. Above all, the King could not understand why Franklin was not a loyalist and resented him more than most of the American rebels.
Explaining his opposition to the White House Fellows program:
See {612641} for the kind of printed statements that distressed Rockefeller.
