The Federalist Era and the First Party System
editFathers of Their Country
editPeace Loving Patriots
editFathers of Secession - Traitorous Francophile Slavocrats
editProslavery racists who wished to expand the empire of slavery and keep political power in local hands – all the better to expand the institution of slavery and protect slaveholders' rights to own human property, sowing the seed of Secession.