Rufus King was the last presidential candidate of this party, which shares its name with a set of 85 essays written under the pseudonym "Publius.
This party ridiculed the people of Cheshire, Massachusetts, for creating the first instance of a 1200-pound "mammoth cheese." A member of it once called the U.S. the "world's last hope" because it was a "fast-anchored Isle." William Charles depicted that member of this party praying, in a cartoon subtitled "Leap, No Leap." Thomas Pickering was one of this party's members who were accused of forming the (*) Essex Junto and proposing that New England secede in response to the War of 1812. Rufus King was the last presidential candidate of this party, which shares its name with a set of 85 essays written under the pseudonym "Publius." For 10 points, name this early American political party, opposed by the Democratic-Republicans of Thomas Jefferson.
This party ridiculed the people of Cheshire, Massachusetts, for creating the first instance of a 1200-pound "mammoth cheese."
Federalist Party