"We suffered ourselves, as you so well expressed it, to be passive subjects of public discussion. And these discussion, wheter relating to me, measures or opinion, were conducted by the parties with animosity, a bitterness and an indecency which had never been exceeded."

"All the resources of reason and of wrath were exhausted by each party in support of its own, anti-federalists, the other tories and refugees, into their bosom."

"Of this acrimony, the public paper of the day exhibit ample testimony, in debates of Congress, of the State Legislatures, of stump-orator, in be added private correspondeces of individuals; and less guarded in these, because not mean for public eye, not restrained by the respect due to that, but poured forth from overflowing of the heart into the bosom of freind, as a momentary easement of our...feelings. (or self satisfaction)"

The Republic of Reason
Norman Cousins

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At that time Herod the tetrarch heard the of the fame of Jesus...

And certainly this emperor at least had some interet in Jesus to hear him out...

thbg