Mrs. Adams wrote to Jefferson on 29 January 1787:
Ignorant, wrestless desperadoes, without conscience or principles, have led a deluded multitude to follow their standard, under pretence of grievances which have no existence but in their imaginations. . . . Some of them were crying out for a paper currency, some for an equal distribution of property, some were for annihilating all debts. . . . Instead of that laudible spirit which you approve, which makes a people watchful over their Liberties and alert in the defence of them, these mobish insurgents are for sapping the, foundation, and distroying.....
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