The political disputes of the 1790s and early 1800s divided friends, neighbors, and families. Dr. Nathaniel Ames and his younger bro^thjyrjj- Fisher Ames, lived all their lives in Dedham, Massachusetts, and disagreed about every p o l i t i cal issue. Nathaniel, an Anti-Federalist turned Republican, hated Federalists ("British bootlickers") and lawyers ("the Dregs of Misfortune and Misconduct"). Fisher, a Federalist congressman, lawyer, and political essayist, condemned Republicans as "Jacobins born in sin" and "trumpeters of sedition." Nathaniel supported the French Revolution and opposed the Jay Treaty, while Fisher did the opposite. Nathaniel believed Jefferson's election in 1800 would usher in a new age "with returning harmony with France—with the irresistable propagation of the Rights of Man, the eradication of hierarchy, oppression, superstition and tyranny over the world." Fisher thought, "The next thing will be, as in France, anarchy...