Regarding the 1796 election, and the partisanship that was thrown around between the Republican Party and the Federalist Party…:

Some Federalists turned upside down Jefferson’s commitment to religious liberty, asserting that he was irreligious and hoped for the liberty not to worship. Furthermore, many Federalist bloggers suggested that Jefferson’s admiration of the French Revolution was proof that he was an “infidel” and hence a danger to Christianity in America.

— Adams Vs. Jefferson, page 90. John Ferling.

A google serach shows that I am not the first person to notice this utterly bizarre slip. Where does it come from?

Curious, I decided to try to see if, somewhere in the backlog of the Internet, from way back in 1796 I found one of the blogs he’s referring to!

Here it is!

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