Avowing their plan to return to Jeffersonian principles, they now called themselves Democrats and welcomed citizens of all stripes to join their ranks.
Jefferson looked upon such government as dangerous to the liberties of citizens and openly avowed his faith in the desirability of occasional popular uprisings.
He told stories about engineers leaping their trains over rivers without bridges, by putting on full steam;and many of those present avowed themselves of the engineer's mind.
The textbooks refused even to discuss theories, frankly throwing up their hands and avowing that progress depended on studying each rock as a law to itself.