The Federalists themselves must be conciliated, and the national organization achieved by them is by implication accepted.

The Federalist structure, so recently the prison of the free American spirit, becomes itself a large part of the temple of democracy.

The Union is no longer inimical to liberty.

For the first time we begin to hear from good Republican mouths, some sacred words about the necessary connection of liberty and union.

Jefferson celebrated his triumph by adopting the work, if not the creed, of his adversaries.
The adoption by Jefferson and the Republicans of the political structure of their opponents is of an importance hardly inferior to that of the adoption of the Constitution by the states.