plutherus

Are they talking about The Squad? Or the Yang Gang?

They have their little pamphlets and their meetings and their public spectacles... But they are a tiny group of no consequence... They make a loud noise and frighten those of delicate constitutions with their grim predictions and seek to overthrow the country's most valued institutions and thereby destroy her economy...

It is fortunate that for the most part the good people of this nation pay them little heed, and while they may make some minor mischief and cause some damage in individual cases they do not need to be feared. They shall soon come to naught and be forgotten as others with the same ideas have before.

Nope, this is from an 1845 pamphlet by Francis Todd, attacking the Abolitionist Movement.