re: #218 KGxvi

The Democratic-Republican Party wasn’t super concerned with universal suffrage either, to be fair. There were probably more abolitionists among the Federalists (like Hamilton and Franklin) than Democratic-Republicans

That’s true as far as it goes. At the time no suffrage was granted to women, slaves, or Natives. The D-R party at the time wasn’t concerned as much about that as the reach of federal power and the Alien and Sedition Acts (Jefferson viewed them as unconstitutional).