[4] Brown thought the wealthy had gained too much political power in the new republic: "All our administration is fast approaching to Lords and Commons as possible, that a few men should possess the whole country and the rest be tenants to the others.
[1] He said they set themselves about the people, and expected them, like "the subjects of Julius Caesar, we must bow down and worship our Leaders as the Gods of Jupiter and Mars.
"[5] In the early American republic, Brown went throughout the towns arguing against the newly formed national United States government.
[1][b] Fisher Ames called him a "wandering apostle of sedition" who spread "bold falsehoods" and "artful and inflammatory sophistry.
[7] Despite sentencing Benjamin Fairbanks to a very light penalty for his part in erecting the pole, Chase came down hard on Brown for the "malignity and magnitude" of his crimes.
[6][10][7][d] In December 1800, at the end of his term, Brown could not afford to pay the fine and President Adams refused to set him free.