Essex Junto

American  

[juhn-toh] / ˈdʒʌn toʊ /

noun

U.S. History.

1. a group of extreme Federalist party members from Essex county, Massachusetts.

2. any Federalist.

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Etymology

Origin of Essex Junto

An Americanism dating back to 1795–1805

Example Sentences

A "Pharisee of the Pharisees" in the Essex Junto, he cherished all the intense hatred of that branch of the Federalists for the war and its supporters.

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Quite suddenly, however, the majority, frightened by threats of secession openly made by the New England members, and fearful of the famous Essex Junto, rallied to a compromise.

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Pickering then put his project before the members of the coterie of Federalists in Massachusetts, which was generally known as the "Essex Junto."

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Replying for his intimates in the Essex Junto, George Cabot put aside the project, not as in any wise morally reprehensible,—on the contrary, he thought separation desirable,—but as impracticable.

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The Federalists regained control of both houses of the state legislature, and forced the resignation of Senator John Quincy Adams, who had broken with his party by voting for the embargo, and who had incurred the undying enmity of of the Essex Junto by defending the policy of the Administration.

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