[John Maclay 01] • The John Maclay

Excerpt from The Maclays of Lurgan: Being a Biographical Sketch of the Descendants of Charles and John Maclay Who Came to America in the Year 1734

The funding of the public debt, chartering of the United States Bank and other measures championed necessarily by the administration, whose duty it was to put the wheels of government in motion, engendered opposition. \villiam Maclay, to use his own language, no one else presenting himself fearlessly took the initiative and with blunt common sense (for he was not much of a speaker) and democratic ideas, took issue with the ablest advocates of the administration. Notwithstanding the prestige of General ivashington and the ability of the defenders of the administration on the floor of the Senate, such was his tact and resolution that when, after his short service, he was retired from the Senate and succeeded by James Ross, a pronounced Federalist, their impress was left in the distinctive lines of an opposition party a party which, taking advantage of the warm feeling of our people toward the French upon the occasion of Jay's treaty with Great Britain in 17 94 and of the un popularity of the alien and sedition laws passed under the administration of John Adams in 1798, compassed the final overthrow of the Federal party in 1800.

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