>> guest: well confined to the new england states, but some more prom innocent federalists are james ashton, roofus king, who became the senator from new york. those are the leading federalists. but the federalists had not felt national power since the election of 1800 when they lost to thomas jefferson and the republicans. they've become something of a regional rump based main on on new england, particularly in massachusetts and kentucky. those are the strongholds, and the state governments of those regions and probably the majority of people in the new england states, not all of them, but very strongly opposed to the war, the clergy preached against dmon demonstrations, republican congress, assaulted by war and people in the streets when they went back home, the president was hanged in effigy, all of those sorts of things, and partisanship, if the republicans were for a federalist or against it. the federalists thought the war was a major mistake. they tended to be pro-british thought the republicans were pro-french, and this this war served the interest of napolian. the federalists wante