Editing Wolfe Tone (section)

=== Impressions of America ===
In August 1795, Tone took up residence in [[Philadelphia]], the then-capital of the United States, where he found himself in the company of Rowan, Tandy, and Reynolds. Tone was instantly disillusioned. He found the Americans to be a "churlish, unsociable race totally absorbed in making money", and was appalled by the reactionary anti-French sentiment of [[George Washington]] and his [[Federalist Party]] allies—a "mercantile peerage"—entrenched in the [[United States Senate|U.S. Senate]]. His sympathies were with the [[Democratic-Republican Party|Democratic-Republican]] opposition that was beginning to form around [[Thomas Jefferson]] and [[James Madison]].<ref name=":7">{{Cite journal |last=Brundage |first=David |date=2010 |title=Matilda Tone in America: Exile, Gender, and Memory in the Making of Irish Republican Nationalism |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25660948 |journal=New Hibernia Review / Iris Éireannach Nua |volume=14 |issue=1 |pages=96–111 |jstor=25660948 |issn=1092-3977}}</ref>{{rp|103}}<ref name=":4" />{{rp|16–17}}

Tone bought a farm near [[Princeton, New Jersey]], an area made desirable by the attraction of "a college and some good society", and thought to spend the approaching winter writing a history of the Catholic Committee.<ref name=":0" />{{rp|261}}  But letters received from John Keogh and Thomas Russell persuaded him to resume his revolutionary mission. With the support of the French minister in Philadelphia, [[Pierre Adet]], on New Year's Day 1796, he sailed for France.<ref name=":042"/>