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"not a Jacobin." 6 The people largely shared these 

 sentiments. In 1793, at the Fourth of July celebra- 

 tion at Jonesborough there was a public dinner and 

 ball, as there was also at Knoxville; Federal troops 

 were paraded and toasts were drunk to the Presi- 

 dent, to the Judges of the Supreme Court, to Blount, 

 to General Wayne, to the friendly Chickasaw In- 

 dians, to Sevier, to the ladies of the Southwestern 

 Territory, to the American arms, and, finally, "to 

 the true liberties of France and a speedy and just 

 punishment of the murderers of Louis XVI." The 

 word "Jacobin" was used as a term of reproach 

 for some time. 



The paper was at first decidedly Federalist in 

 sentiment. No sympathy was expressed with Genet 

 or with the efforts undertaken by the Western allies 

 of the French Minister to organize a force for the 

 conquest of Louisiana; and the Tennessee settlers 

 generally took the side of law and order in the 

 earlier disturbances in which the Federal Gov- 

 ernment was concerned. At the Fourth of July 

 celebration in Knoxville in 1795, one of the toasts 

 was "The four Western counties of Pennsylvania; 

 may they repent their folly, and sin no more" ; the 

 Tennesseeans sympathizing as little with the Penn- 

 sylvania whiskey revolutionists as four years later 

 they sympathized with the Kentuckians and Vir- 

 ginians in their nullification agitation against the 

 alien and sedition laws. Gradually, however, the 

 tone of the paper changed, as did the tone of 



6 "Knoxville Gazette," March 27, 1794. 



