The Federalists resisted every attempt by Northern artisans to organize, lest their success, as one Federalist writer put it, excite similar attempts among all other descriptions of persons who live by manual labor.79
Gordon S. Wood
The Federalists resisted every attempt by Northern artisans to organize, lest their success, as one Federalist writer put it, excite similar attempts among all other descriptions of persons who live by manual labor.79