# Ep. 30: Anarchiad! - Politics in the Early Republic **URL:** **By** Anthony Comegna **Published:** November 28, 2017 --- This First Patriot Coalition helped win the war, but the Second, a far more aristocratical, power-friendly coalition was already busy about its work. Reformist minded and very far from the Hartford Wits, to be sure, but the Jeffersonians were still fundamentally the agents of a different sort of American elite. While these white male mechanics and yeoman farmers made for a more democratic ruling elite than the great colonial landholders and office-mongers, they remained relatively content with driving slaves, dominating women and children, and using the power of government to support their own interests--local and relatively liberal as they may have been. [“Anarchiad, a New England Poem” (1786-7)](https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/amverse/BAD5699.0001.001/1:15?rgn=div1%3Bview%3Dtoc) [“The Design of Anarchy: ‘The Anarchiad,’ 1786-1787” by J. K. Van Dover](http://www.jstor.org/stable/25056781?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents), Early American Literature 24, No. 3 (1989): 237-247. Banning, Lance. The Jeffersonian Persuasion: Evolution of a Party Ideology. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 1978. Parrington, Vernon Louis. [Main Currents in American Thought: An Interpretation of American Literature from the Beginnings to 1920, Vols. 1-3](https://archive.org/details/maincurrentsinam01parr). New York: Harcourt, Brace \& World, Inc. 1958 (Original Printing: 1927).