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Rather than supporting his decision to betray France in favor of the British with facts and logic, President Adams used establishment newspapers the Porcupine's Gazette and the Gazette of the United States to call for days of fasting and prayer and to assail dissident voices. Once his propaganda machinery had effectively whipped the armchair public into a religiously justified, Frenchman and Irishmen-fearing (and hating) frenzy, he signed the Alien and Sedition acts. Once in place, the job function email list executive was empowered to imprison, without due process, anyone who spoke out or published anything that was opposed to actions or policies endorsed by the federal government and deport or imprison anyone it pleased.

Benjamin Franklin Bache (pronounced “Beech”), the grandson of Benjamin Franklin was with his grandfather in France while he was petitioning the king's court for armaments and supplies during the Revolutionary War,

As the opposition media publisher of the Philadelphia Aurora (published from 1790-1798), Bache was the voice of principled opposition to the policies of President Adams who he referred to as “His Rotundity.” Bache's editorial policy was a reflection of his principled condemnation of Adams' policies which he knew were unconstitutional, unethical and a betrayal of those who helped us to win the war against King George's armies.