When DeWitt Clinton, therefore, charged the Federalists with loving the English more than their own country, John Taylor won the Senate by recalling Indian atrocities set on foot by British officers, and often carried out with the assistance of British Tories, now members of the Federalist party.
Alexander notes how John Taylor used the memory of British-instigated Indian atrocities to counter DeWitt Clinton's accusations against the Federalists.
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