We had our Jacobins and disorganizers, who saw no difference between a King and a President; and, as the people of France had put down their King, they thought the people of America ought to put down their President.
Beveridge critiques the radical elements of society that equate the presidency with monarchy, reflecting on the political climate of his time.
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Thus were the ideas of Nationality and localism in America brought into sharper conflict by the mob and guillotine in France.
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