Rallying together. Apparently a word of Thomas Jefferson’s coinage.
1826. The good Old Dominion, the blessed mother of us all, will then raise her head with pride among the nations, will present to them that splendor of genius which she has ever possessed, but has too long suffered to rest uncultivated and unknown, and will become a centre of ralliance to the States whose youth she has instructed, and, as it were, adopted.—Tho. Jefferson, ‘Works’ (1859), ix. 509–10 (‘Thoughts on Lotteries’).
