...most part on such as are fit Tools for Demagogues to work with.” Could the querist “point...
2[May 1760] (Adams Papers)
...the Reputation of a Hypocrite and an ambitious Demagogue by it; the Number of licensed Houses...
31760. May 29. Thurdsday. (Adams Papers)
...the Reputation of a Hypocrite and an ambitious Demagogue by it; the Number of licensed Houses...
4William Smith: An Answer to Mr. Franklin’s Remarks, [7 December 1764] (Franklin Papers)
...with the scene; puts off the noisy demagogue, forgets the cause of his employers,...
5[December 1765] (Adams Papers)
..., about Governors, Councillors, Representatives, Demagogues, Merchants &c. The Behaviour...
61765. December. 23d. Monday (Adams Papers)
..., about Governors, Councillors, Representatives, Demagogues, Merchants &c. The Behaviour...
7Marginalia in Good Humour, an Anonymous Pamphlet, [1769?] (Franklin Papers)
...engages every one’s attention. Demagogues who wish to bring government into contempt...
8An Account Stated against G. G., [17 January 1769] (Franklin Papers)
...generally be quiet, if it were not for their factious Demagogues, and that the
9From Benjamin Franklin to William Franklin, 1 September 1773 (Franklin Papers)
...unanimous, and not the Fiction of a few Demagogues, as their Governors us’d to represent them...
10Rules by Which a Great Empire May Be Reduced to a Small One, 11 September 1773 (Franklin Papers)
...be invented and promoted by a few factious Demagogues, whom if you could catch and hang,...
11From Thomas Jefferson to William Small, 7 May 1775 (Jefferson Papers)
hot headed demagogues
12To John Adams from Jonathan Dickinson Sergeant, 20 May 1776 (Adams Papers)
...Proselytes as Parson Whitefield. With us the old Demagogues I fear are against us. Next Week...
13To George Washington from Edward Rutledge, 18 December 1778 (Washington Papers)
...Ambition, which has elevated the Factious Demagogue, in every Republic of Antiquity,...
14To Benjamin Franklin from Dumas, 24 June 1779 (Franklin Papers)
...j’ai été de son sentiment, que, comme Négociant, Démagogue à la Bourse, Anti-Angl. &c. &c....
15From John Adams to Mercy Otis Warren, 3 August 1779 (Adams Papers)
...Influence, that obtained them. A factious Demagogue, disappointed in his Views of Ambition and...
16To George Washington from John Mathews, 15 September 1780 (Washington Papers)
..., & seen something of the rancour of these Demagogues yet I never imagined it had risen to...
17The Continentalist No. I, [12 July 1781] (Hamilton Papers)
...people over the other, or of a few usurping demagogues over the whole. Most of them had been...
18To Benjamin Franklin from Silas Deane, 13 May 1782 (Franklin Papers)
A copyist’s mistranscription of “demagogues”:
19Analysis of Loyalists, [1783?] (Franklin Papers)
...Oaths, among whom also are divers who had been Demagogues & Leaders of the People, & who...
20Jefferson’s Reply to the Representations of Affairs in America by British Newspapers, [before 20 November 1784] (Jefferson Papers)
...any illegal act has been committed by the demagogues they have been put under a due course...
21To George Washington from David Humphreys, 9 November 1786 (Washington Papers)
...perverseness of some of the leading members, or Demagogues, in our Assembly; and that I gave...
22To George Washington from David Humphreys, 20 January 1787 (Washington Papers)
..., to see the Union dissolved. These Demagogues really affect to persuade the people...
23Popular Election of the First Branch of the Legislature, [31 May] 1787 (Madison Papers)
...Peop. in large Districts there will be no Danger of Demagogues” (
24Removal of the Executive, [2 June] 1787 (Madison Papers)
...Debates, but in the Eppes copy it is clearly “demagogues.”
25Revisionary Power of the Executive and the Judiciary, [4 June] 1787 (Madison Papers)
...Dr. & Cr. the followers of different Demagogues, the diversity of religious Sects—The...
26From George Washington to Lafayette, 6 June 1787 (Washington Papers)
...Confusion, and dictated perhaps by some aspiring demagogue who will not consult the interest...
27Popular Election of the First Branch of the Legislature, [6 June] 1787 (Madison Papers)
large districts less liable to be influenced by factions demagogues than small....demagogue...
28To Thomas Jefferson from Edward Carrington, 9 June 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
...to circulate with public information. Demagogues of desperate fortunes, mere adventurers...
29Alexander Hamilton’s Notes, [18 June 1787] (Hamilton Papers)
Demagogues will generally prevail.
30James Madison’s Version, [18 June 1787] (Hamilton Papers)
...they had parted with. The ambition of their demagogues is known to hate the controul of the...