20 September 1789
Warren, Mercy Otis, 1728-1814
to Catharine Macaulay Graham
Written after news of the beginning of the French Revolution reached America. Assesses the new government's prospects. Remarks, "we are too poor for Monarchy, too wise for Despotism, and too dissipated selfish & extravagant for Republicanism."...
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