The New York Post was founded as a broadsheet for this party, and its other champions in thepress included William Cobbett writing as "Peter Porcupine" and dictionary editor Noah Webster.One leader of this party pardoned the tax rebel John Fries. The last serious candidates proposed bythis party were Richard Stockton and (*) Rufus King. Fisher Ames, George Cabot, and TimothyPickering were members 
The New York Post was founded as a broadsheet for this party, and its other champions in thepress included William Cobbett writing as "Peter Porcupine" and dictionary editor Noah Webster.One leader of this party pardoned the tax rebel John Fries. The last serious candidates proposed bythis party were Richard Stockton and (*) Rufus King. Fisher Ames, George Cabot, and TimothyPickering were members of a faction of this party called the Essex Junto, who were slandered as "bluelights" for their supposed disloyalty. It twice nominated Charles Cotesworth Pinckney for the presidency.One leader of this party suggested using bounties to promote production in "The Report on Manufactures,"and another appointed the Midnight Judges and signed the Alien and Sedition Acts. For 10 points, namethis party of John Adams and Alexander Hamilton.
The New York Post was founded as a broadsheet for this party, and its other champions in thepress included William Cobbett writing as "Peter Porcupine" and dictionary editor Noah Webster.
Federalist Party