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entire country. Culturally, however, they
were identified with the ancient stock of New England and the mid-Atlantic, as the other major party
at the time, the Jeffersonian Republicans ... Congress save John Quincy Adams voted against the Louisiana Purchase. Adams, too, saw that New
England, the cradle of the revolution, had become a small part of a new nation ... years.
Leading Federalists even plotted to "establish a separate government in New England,"as William
Plumer, a senator from Delaware, later conceded. (The plot collapsed only when the proposed military