ttircatcn to Income the ariltocritical ordci of
tUe ftatc. Several citizens, and among othcrt
Thofc who hiAaidtfd in dHtmiAg^ftwen^
«nce orjihfeir jhk8,'^obsrive.l
them Pelves agjgrieved by thoU* fi(cal engage-
fnentt. Hence an oppofition which declares
itfclf between the farming or agricKUiiral in-
tereft, and that of the filcal ; rcderalil'm and
antifederalifni, which arc founded on thofe
new dcnoiniiiaiions, in .prp|>*fl‘4®A
treafory ufurps a^ prept^dW^lc^ 'inwW
vcrniiient aiul legillarion t HencCj in nne, the
Ifate, divided iino pariifaus- and enemies of
the treaPurer'aml of his theories, hi this
new cjhiiHeatfOr 'ofi 'jbe pf
things gave .popularity - to Jthe latter.» au
innate inftintff, if i may ufe the expreflion,
cauied the ears of the people to revou at the
names alona oC treafiirgii^ind ftnrkjnhbcr^
bat the oppohte party, in confeqoencc of its
ability/ nfeinafcly polled ^n leaving to
adverfaries.thciic7iti0.ut. panic .of antl-fedoc!" '■^sprici
thii^ Meitdr wf
the confti;qtiqq;,,.a«d'enemies o^^y qf^ the ea-
c^craces: .which jfipancieiiiig theqrie? laiear
rciiegfoattachto.it. • '  . 1
. 5. Jit if D^lefs to ftop, loDgqr-to. prpy^ iha^
the monai;^y^ fyliem was,interwQ,\eu wit4
thofe. ijoyelqfs/fjf ^finaqces^i and that the
friends of.^e. i&youted tl»e attempts
xfhich were"in order to bring the con-,
ftitution. to.1^ w;:p»er by inrenflhw giadati^
ohs. The'wi'iiings.pf inhuentiai mcp.df. this
party proVeJt: i[beir real opinions too avow
it, and she joacnaiS-of the feiwc are the dcr
pofitofy dr the firff attempts. *' j
6. Let us, therefore, free dwfctvi^ from
the intermediate (paces in which the progrePs
of the fyjflcni is piarked, fihce|tticy. cap add
no:hing to the proof oP its cxjftciice-—.Let us
pafs by its fymp:^thy with pu^, jegeneirating
inove^nents,., wbi^rrupohig in. ptonarchical
paths-.-Let as arrive.at the (kuptionin which
our republican 'revolution has. pt^ced things
and parties.
7. The anrifederallfls difeipbarraPs'them*
fel.ves of an infigiuficanc denomination, and
take that of patriots and of repiibUcans. Their
adverfaries become ariftocratf,; p.otwithilandj
ihg their efforts to preferve the advantageous
iljuflon of ancient names,; opinions clafli, and
p.refi each other; the ariffocraiic. attempts
whicH formerly had appeared ^ inlignkicant,
are recollcAcd ; the treafurer, who is looked
upon,as their firft (burce, is attacked: his
operations and plans are denouuQcd to the
public opinion; nay, in the ibiSlons of 1792
and 1793,^ a ^blemn enquiry into hi? .admini**
ft'racion was obtained. . This fiHl victory was
tg pipdu'ce another, and it Wu hoped that^
faulty or innocent, ^he tr^Purer would retire,
no 1ef% by nccefficy in the one caPe, than from
Pglf love in the other. He, emboldened by
tiic triumph which he obtained in thp uPelefs
enquiry of his enemies, of which bot.h obje^
proved equally abioriive, fed need befides by
the- momentary reverfe of repubJicanifm iM
I^urope, removes the maik and announces the
approaching triumph of his principles.
8. In the mean time, the popular locietles
arc formed ; political ideas concenter them-
frlves, the patriotic parry unite and. more
cjoPcly couneA them Pel yes; they gain a for*
inidable majority in the legillature ; the abafe-
in.ent of commerce, the flavery /if navigation,
and the audacity of England, ftrengthen it.
A^concert-of declarations and cenfures againff
the government'ariPcs: at which thf latter is
even itPelf aftonifhed.
^9* 3hv.li,was tb*e (ituation op things towards
theeJoPeof thelaftand at the beginning of
th^. prefent year. X'Cttis paft o4cr thediP-
contents whjch were, mofl generally exprefled
in tbefe cntkal mt^crits. They, have been
Jput tp you at different periods, and in detail.
% every quarter are arraigned the imbecility
gt the gov^rnipcpt towards Grpat-Britain,
I of the country againll
pofliblc invafions, the coldnefs towanls the
French republic s the Pyftem of finance is at-
*ackqd, which threatens, eternizing tbe debt.
of maHing it the guaranty of
public happincfi ; the complication of that
fyllem which .syirh.holds from general infpeb
tion ^111:8 operations—the alarming power of
tke iphuencc it procures to a man wlio'fe prin
ciples are regarded as dangerous, the prepbii-'
qerance which that man acquires frpm fay to
day m public meafii res, and in a word the
immoral and mipblitic modes oP taxation.
^ P/efentt as exj^iems, and
gfterwrirds raiPet fp permanency.*" '
point we attain the
people,
? P'- «eiple. independent by
eharaaer and Ctaation, thpj^ could not Unt
aewde with efithufia'Pin TO the ertmination
which wc have fketched. But the cxcilc above
all afFct‘ts them. Their land* at e Pc rtilr, wa-
nertfd with the finett^iv^J-4 in the world ; liut
the abundant fruitg.gf Hicic lAbpur mp |he
rilk of pcrifhing for the want of means of
exchanging them, as thofc mere happy culti
vators do Sr objctftS which defire indicates to
all men who |ave known onl^ the enjoyments
which Europe procures them. Tiicy there
fore conv^rp,thg axpefs brUheir proOucAiuto
liquors iirt^frlly‘labHcgied, wl^ch b^cli^
Pupply the place of thofc they ndght procure
by exchange. The exciPe is created and
ftrikesat this confolingtransfoTtnaiion ; rhreir
cquqslainds arc A.nf^rril .by' ihq on\y pretext
that they ay inarr^fiibli* toexmy.
Ppecies of impofl. Birt why, in contempt of
treariet, are they left lii break the yoke t>f'
thg Spaniard, ns ro thr Miihfippi, for
upwards ,9f|welye.yem*s • '/bince when has
an a^riculu^l i>eOple IbbniHKd to the-onjufl
_ of a people' explorcia of the
piTtlt^s TKfttfs f we nor ftippotb^^tfrat'
^^rid ai^__Fh)ladcl))hia niuiuuily aflldcd in
pi bloiiglug the flavcry of the river ; iliat the
prupriciOiS of a barren coafl are afraid’led
khe'Mifi]fippi,ohce o)>enriI^ and its iiuin.ftous
jbramlllcS brouglit into’ a^iviiy, their fields
might' become dePem, and, in a word thar
cbinnieixe'di'cadshaving rivals in' ihoPe ittte-*''
rior' paVtt sis' (bon us iheir iahabitunts /hall
ceaie to be-fubjefi/i This 1 all Puppofiiihri is
birt too well Pounded ;-an intlueniin! member
of ihe ienate, mr. Izaixl, one day in conver*
lation nndl^ui(eilly aTOiouuced'ii to me.
" tti 1 (hall be more brief in my cbfervetions'
ontiVe murmur's excited by the fyflem for the
(ale of lands. It is conceived to be unjv.{l
that thefc \a(l and fertile legions fliould be
fold by provlncei^ to capiralids, w ho thus eii
rich themPeives, and retail with immenPe pro
fits, to the htffbai'idmen, puflcflions which they
liave-ikver''(een. If tberb were not a latent
defigirto arreit the rapid-firtflemcne of riwdV
latid^, aiid.to prolong their infant date, why
not open in the weft lund ddices, where every -
body writhouc diftindtion, ihoalil he admitted'
to purebaPe by a Pmall or large quantity 1
Why rePerve to Pell ortliftribiuc to favourites,
to a clan of flatterers, of courtiers, ihar
which belongs to the (late, and which (hould
be fold to the greaiefl puiftble proili of all it*
members.
13. Such, thercfp' c, were the n-arts of the
public grievance, upon which the wefleru-
)>eopIe nioft infilled. Now, as the conni:un
diPpatches inPortn you, thefe complaints were
Pylieinacizing by the converiations of influen
tial men who retired into thofe wild countries,
and who.fi'uni principle, or by g Peries of par
ticular heart buriiings, animated diPconteiitx
already too near to cfFcrvefcence.. At laft tlx-
local explofion is efFetftcd. The w'efterii pco
pie calculated on being fupperted by ionic
diilinauiihcd cliaraftcrs in tl c eaft, and even
imagined they had in the boibm of the go-
verninent Pouie abettors, who.might fh^r^ in
riioir grievances or their principles.
13. From what I have detailed above, thdle
might indeed be fiippofird numerous.
1 he feflians of 1793 and 1794 had given iin-
povtance to the rcpohrictin party, and folidity
to its accufiiiions. The prcpofii^ons of mr.
MadiPon, or his, projeifl of ai navigation 'acfl,'
of which mr, Jefferl'on was originally liie au
thor, flipped the Britifli inierelt, sow an iiW
part of the financiering fyflem. lijr.
Taylor, a,republican member of the fenate,
publifhed, towards the endi of tbe feflion,
which this laft is explored
to its grigiii, and developed in it*s progrefs
and confequeiices wdth force and method. In
the laft he allerts that the clecrepid ftate of
aflTairs rePulting from that fyflem, could not
but prefage, under a riling goverunienti ei
ther a revohitioii ora civil win*. ^
^4* The firft was preparing; the govern
ment whica had forefeet) it, re-produced, un
der various forms, the demand of a difpofa**
We • force whidi might put it in a rfPpcCtable
ftate of defence.—Defeated in this nieafure,
who can aver that it may not havt haftened
the local eruption, in order to make an ad-
vatitageotis diVerfion, and to lay the more ge
nera) ftorni which it Paw gathering J Am 1 not
.authorized -in forming this conjetfture from
the conyerfation which the ftcrctary of ftate
ad with me and Le Blanc, alone, an account
ot which you have in my diPpatcli, No. 3 ?
nut how,may we exnet?!' thnr thin n^ur
•11 L expetft that this new plan
'*^h*^*^ ? By exafperating knd fev'erc
mwrnrcs, authorized by a law which was not
(blicitcd till the cloPe 'of the feflion. This
law gave to the one alreadv exiPtina for col
lecting the exciPe, a cocrdcc force' which hi-
' * Dilponible.
^y.
citizens
Pued
of
»«h a r.,d,l,„ rigour"’"''"'
nts Wer** a "cpor.
It was
and
would
: 15.
voiced
.to
Pome
been
union
onion
fyniptc.
ia great .
principles
•mr ' ■
^o
•But
publ
Imands
Iceflhry
jibe
kli
of
^rits were iflu-rf ’ « Rrcai.
‘kqucncci from » ’ the
fo harfh were
manitoted.
gfaparrdj ,hi, w„
ton-dolph ine,nt ih-,di^"b'"^ly «ha,^
hmidredn of mm » h„ i.
a^d V/V'^C
of the counties in Bradd ^
Tvhich has not been revi^ ^ »
"‘P***"** Il'ich could juflif, .r*’
'.erwr a force,, ,j,ocJ,
J>nncipl« ottered in the dcch?;,; ^
ima^ pnblitc. rather announfe’
to U calmed, than anarchift, to bcTiH*'’’
« obtain fomethtJ^
ic opinion ptepoffrired asainf,® ?
l» chiitemplated to I* road, i,
ry to magnify ,he do„g„ ’-oH'?*'
view, of thofe peopl. .?
liem the defign of unitir.’.1
England, ,«. alarm
of ilie eonftiniiion, whilf, i„ tri/
.lution threatened only miniricr. ti- ,
Succeeded; an army i, lailid- .V,’^^.',’.*
;partof tliefopprcflion is !ool„W
...ilton., the pacific part. ,„d,CU
mr. Randolph over the mind of •
when. I denght alway, t, bcl”; t
do Wteve trnly viru.om,
•lut fellow-Citizens in principle.
; |6. In the mean time, althonolilietc,
a certainty of having an army, j?„i,e.,
cefliry to afluiw themfeUe, of co nper,-
among toe men whofe pa-rioric icLni
might influence their party, and wbofchl
warmnefs or want of energy in the exilii
tonjuiKfture might compromife the fncccfs
jjthc plans Of all the governors y^hofe di
it was to appear at the head of the requif
ons, thg governor of Penrfjlyama aloner
j^cd the name of a republican; his opni
^of the fccrerary of the treafury ard of i
‘fyflems -was known to be unfavourable. T
fecretary of this Prate polTcfled great iiflom
in the popular fociety of Philadelphia, »hi(
in it’s turn iiifluenced thofe cf otherfatfi
^of courfc he merited atrcniior. Irafpfsr
therefore, that thePe men, with otbenii!
• known to me, all having, without doul)
Rniilol])h at their head, w ere bakricinp i
^decide on their parry. Two or threed?'
.before the proclamation was publiibed,an
of courfc before the cabinet had refoKedo
iifs inearures, mr, Randolph came to fee m
with ail air of great cagemefs, andmaie t
me the ovenure* of which I haw gj’W I"
.an account in my No. 6. Tboiwithlbni
thoufancls of dollars, the republic couW Ia»
decided on civil war or on peace ! Tbratn
cunfcicnces of the pretended patriotsej Aw*
. rica have already their prices IX b
' true that the certainty of thefe cRnd®o^^
painful to be drawn, will
archieves! What will be the old agt w
governmenr, if it is thus
Such, citizen, is the evident confrq'’
the lyftem of finances corcehed "y" : .
milton. He has made of a
ftockjobbin g, fpeculating, felfifc ^
alone here fix confideraticn; sud ^
likes to be dePpifed, they ^
fought after. .
Neverthclefs this depravity has
braced the maft of the people,
this pernicious fyflem have a»
, touched them. Still there ar
. whom I delight to ^i
of that impofing title. “-r.
I is of this number ; he had *PP '.
i men whom the current
along as bodies devoid of weig *
Mafon is alfo an mw.
whom the
the prcfideiit, had forefeen
prudently retired, in
I a figure againft his inclm
fecret of which will fooo o
to concladei in our n
f Thi, law wa,
te«. t