Sentence:  Other Federalist essayists urged the citizens of North carolina to cultivate an attachment to the national government "as necessary to our general happiness and as the best security against oppression,” while portraying John Adams as the leading figure in the American impulse toward liberty in 1776 and Jefferson as “only a <WSD>secondhanded</WSD> varnished Deist." 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Ersatz.