What does this mean?
Many Federalists fretted that his expansion of the nation would enhance the slaveholding South at the expense of the Northeast. "The Virginia faction," observed Stephen Higginson of Massachusetts, "have certainly formed a deliberate plan to govern and depress New England, and this eagerness to extend our territory and create new Sates is an essential part of it."
Some of these Federalists, led by former secretary of state Timothy Pickering and Connecticut's Roger Griswold revived the 1780s idea of breaking away and forming a separate confederacy of New England and New York. Hamilton's adamant opposition to such a scheme, however, essentially killed it, at least for the time being.
"Dismemberment of our Empire," Hamilton told one prominent New England Federalist the night before his fatal duel with Aaron Burr in July of 1804, offered "no relief to our real Disease; which is DEMOCRACY."
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