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KA: L I G HttiiaiisfflD jbfiry TUESDAY- by HOD GE-fc" BSYiIi-V!1
rmtKJ State.
Vol. V.
. T U'E S D A Y, August 19, i8co.
$Fi'tm the Connecticut Ctttrtwt- - 1
No. in.
To the people of the United Slater.
MR. JEFFERSON concludes his chapter on to
leration, by the following pafiagc : From the con-
.c!ufion cf this war, we ftiall he going down hill. It
will riot then be neccfTary to refott' every moment to
the people for fupport. They will be forgotten.
therefore, and their right difregarded. They will
:,-TVlY-a,?1V.ii T-That-tue lave given vbthe Confe-
J..- - r. iTX f L .TH . I' ll. .1 r J iM1 i n ) . rs .' . " .. . .'
due refpeft: for rights. . The hackles, therefore,
which hall not be kaocked off at the concluiiori of this
war, will remain on ti8 long, will be made heavier and
heavier, 'till cur rights hall revive, or expire in a con
vulfion." . A fenticnent is here uttered, which U will
appear goveTns Mr. JefFerfon in all his political con
duel. " The hackles which are not knocked oil at
the clofe of the war, wi'd remain on us long ; will
ture attempts of fuch dif rganizers as he was wellac
quaintcd with. Is it ftranjre then, that he flioulJ
prove a foejo that Conftitution, which thus cut off
all his hopes ? Accordingly the firft thing Mr. JefFer
fon complains of in his letter to Mazzei.-ii, that
Jnftead of that rrp-iblican government, which carri
ed Ui through the dangers of the war, a party has an
fen, whofe avowed okieft is to iinoofe on us the tub
Jimce, as they have already .given us the form of the Bti-
aerator., md eflaUdhed the Federal ConMutioh. That
jis, we had got down-hill from the clcfe ef the war,
till 1787, under the confederation, which afibrded us
no protection, no fecurity ; when confoious that we
fhould in a fhort time be expiring in a convulfion; tft'e
people who Mr, JefFerfon fays will forget every thing
but getting money, v-contrarv to the foiebodina of
" the van oftejerodv, wifely, and virtuoufly,
j?row hcavlel a'nh 'h
anj accordingly eltabhlhcd fha federal ConJtitution.
To this Conftitution, Miy Jcffc'rfod gives the moll o
dious no me he can find ' The Brii'ih Government."
All our Democrats proftfs to loire out- Conftitution.
Mr. Jcfftrfon makes the fame profefljon. But here
arc hiii fentiments drawn from a private letter of friend
fitip, to an Italian ;.a letter which, undoubttdly, the
writer expecled would -be kept fecrtt. From fuch a
fource we may. ratiotially exp d . to derive the truth ;
becaufe fe- people play the hypocrite,hen conrer
fiOj" familiarly with a bofom friend. It is In public,
in pur fa it of ambition, in the poflefuorh of places of ;
pawer (and profit thit-. we are to look for difguife,
and fraud. Mr. JefFerfon declares our Federal Con- j
ilitihion a monarchy ; and yet, he i very willing toac- i
cept of offices under it He has willingly enjoyed J
two lucrative places under it, he is now ready zraciouf'
wfittrrntfervr
fir r a -'convulfion' That is, my countrymcif you
ate To weak, fo mcrcinary, fo ' depraved, that j tvill
in the finl place neg'eft your rjghte ; and when once
Tiegle&ed, there .is no other mode cf rtvi !ng them,
than by a convuJGfln -or in otherwords a Revolution.
Are you prepared to fubfciibe to this fentiment ? Arc
the people who voluntarily adopted the prcfent Fede
ral Conftitution, tvfflvc1 yeti3 ajro, extinct ? And
- with them-all the -'-virtue - and -wifdom- oflthe r.atioa i
They are not extinft many of them, at, leaft, and
"their virtue are" dill alive. And "mould they became
per funded, that their prefent form of government is
inadequate t the great purpofe for which it was dc
fjgned, they will devife , means to amend, or alter it,
unlefs prevented l y the arts, and prictices of thofe,
whrs npenTy profefs to believe, that fuch amenJineU8,
5rd alteranoHS, muft be made by a Convuluon. It
hefitation, without ary doubt " thev will "remain
'till our rights fhall revive," &c It is an tftabli'ftied
e A tew rears afterwards, we hall find- Jy' Ue
-frnEtmtut is itorc opeiuy auu bbiC-JvoweZ. Here u
wst only a ftream, by tracing which, we -ihal! ctplcrc
our wr,y into 3k oceari,. hoaodlcf3, and tempeftu-ous,
. agita'id by 'unceaun liorms, and tinged 'with tlie
Uocd of all o itiaiYs on whole bores its waves are per
n,)ite4 to duOi. - -I ..
How dc-geraus is it to fay to a large nation, that
ThcTe is no mode of reviving" the fpii it," or altering the
- form, cf a rvxrnmtH, bet -by a tcnv'ulfnn This is
precifely the docliine,' which 'has been taught in all
countries whofc governments have been termed defpotk
and tyrannical, efpsciaUy in Qiat Btitain. . Whether
' it be j uft as it refpefls them j is aot my province to de
termine. I mould ha. diV expect that the man., who is
proud of the title- " the Man of the people in the-Uni
td States,' would' at a ftrokg of his penTdafh out all
the integrity, public fpirit, -and virtue cf thofe very
"people, even if he fuppofed that they we;c in faft fo
debafed, fo depraved, as he feerns to hold themi Hw"
erer; itjs fortunate that hfpocrify cannot eaf.ly be
fuppcrtedTor-4 great length of ' time. ' Human.naiuie
: is incapable of perpetual reficsint. 'It is ditScnlt "to
fajn the hmirhiit it is lr.comoarabiv more lo-to r
chain the mind. Mr. Jeffcrfon did not utter this fen -timent,
becaufe h- dreaded that " Convufon," which
is necefTarily to follow the negkcl of our rights.
, To eftablffh this afTertion, let us now rfoi t 0 a
frtiir.-. which has been often examined, '"but -'which
ariTmr he. gxamincd too ulttri. I ailudi
And rather than tp lofe thefc'ofSces, he is capabicof
taking oath afitr oath, to fupport that monarchy.
.ijnoay...oft mio,- inat.,.uiattg.o-.A&-'Oia.--flot-approve-)t-
coolnef?, by a long ac
vVc have- o(t yti, Hoiibcd' itTi Ws letter to Mia
xti. An anfji-er will be foniid there. vAmong the par
ty who were in favor of the Federal Conftitution,-and
hLh was compoed of filch - men as General Wafli
ingrol), Jcc. Mr. JelFerfon; fays were' all timid per
fons, who prefer the calm of defpotifm, is. the .temp'ejhtns
jetf of 'liberty." At this time, rooft clear 1 jvJvI r. Jef
liiun had no. fricndlhip for the Conititut'ion ; for the
lid of charailers which he enumerates," as being its
friends, does not comprife him. Indeed lo far is he
includiiig hirnfelf, or any of his party, tha he confv-.
dcrs its friends as bcinjr pleafed with the calm of Mp&-
to Mazzei. Here we fh all find, .why Mr., Jtiterlon
fays h. his " N( t?s on. Virginia, ' that
wfll revive or expire, tn a canim'jian.' vv tiat men ar
dently wifli for, they are very apt to believe will take
t)kce : efpccially. when they have fuah gool- grounds
fr.r their faith; as Mr; lefferfoh had in this, inflance
-j:HeW
ways were, to apply to the ilvongelt paffons of men,
fcr fupportthat the way to aibl;iii. hitntelf in tlie
chair of ftate, would be, tr - p.rriuade te peop e,
that he was their extfufiye friend and thTt all their o-
t b errEiers were t netiren em ies,o i xwotma hcuj uu-.
tices and tyrannical in their hearts. - He well knew,
that when it ihould become neccfr-jry to change,, mo
dify or renew a government, rich like himfclf, would
tafilv icflame the poorer chfTes of peoplevvlltHdci ot
oprrefSon," and when -ooce inflamedi it would be no
tifnu which he of all thinrs difiikes. Bqt ths truth" is
more obvious from the next fentence of the letter.
They" that is, the friends of the Confliiution--would
wtcft from u? our Liberty, but we fhall prefet ve
it. It is fufficient that we guard ourfelves,. and that ive
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break -toe iunpuiun ites vy vjtjtco tney nave eouna w.
Mr. JelFerfon here rXplicitV declares, that the friends
Of the Feilera Conftitution arc endeavouring to wrcft
from the pcople"of the;r United States, their Libei'ty.
How; Cei mtiiybyivpportwj-the Conttitution-be-
caufa, he fays nut," that is lamfelf and his party
have nothing to do, but to deilroy the Lilliputian tie,
viz. thlat. very 'Federal. Conjlttution.
Here, then, we have the fumm ing up of MrrJefv
ferfoh's incaning, when he.fpeaks of Liberty the calm of
'd3efprttfmrKHrc:i the rerfoaM;mf(Ttvnvrh rtiili
bei 1 YlsTicentibufnet8-is calm of Defpotifm, is the'
our richts bencMient ctfeds of oiir Fcdeial Corditution--and his
love ot ttie conauuuon, is a ucwy ucicrinniuun iu
detlroyit as foon as be means are n his power. .
It appears to me, that the refult of the whole will
be that Mr. JefFerfon has long felt a deadly hoftih'ty
againiL the Federal Co nil it nt ion."' The remaining
brunch of the propofitioti ill next be coafidered.
irigi that he fhould be fojund on the fide of its eneroicf.
Accordingly the moment tthe government begins to
operate, we find him at the head of a party organized
to fruflr2te its meafures, and to check it3 progrefs.
From the eftablifhment of the funding fyftem, to the
end of the h:l fcfSorf of congrefs, the party has pur
fucd one cout fe, viz. cpfife the government. The fund
ing fyftem, the bank, the proclamation of neutrality,
the treaty with Great .Britain, the raifmg of troops,
lh eiUbhfhrne nt oi a navy, the-direa tax,' the Alien
and Seditibo Laws, the annulling the French Treaty,
lapping the intcrcaurfe with-he French, &cP fee.
have each in their; turn, jbeen oppofed by the demo
craticparty, with the utmoft vehemence. Nowrif it
'could be reafonabiy fHppefed that this party were
iuua iu mc Lonjututtnjnna only diihked certain
meafureof the government, there woald be fbm Ppo
logy for them, .. But, let me aflc. If this wan their MC.
lures, as lubtlitutes for thofe which have been adopt
ed, and in thin way have offered a choice, Inftcad of
that, I think I may fayviihout danger of contradic
tion, that the democratic 6 party, has never ptopofed,
or brought forward in congrefs, one important origi
nal meafure for the confideration of the legiflaturc,
fnce the eflablifhment of the government, Mr. Madi-
fon's, (or rather Mr. Jcfferfon's) celebrated Commer.
cial Refohitions excepted. But, is a government to
M.adminU
a blcfling which flands a ufelefs monument, only to be ''
gazed at ? This hak not proceeded from incapacity m
the party.. Such men as Burr, Madifon, Gallatin, &c.
ate capable of propofing meafuies, of forming plans of
fome fort or other.-- Yet nothing of this kind takes
place. -'. - -
The only fcherse 'has been to oppofe whatever mea
fure has been propofed by the federaliftj. and to uf;
evey polfible exertion--torfruflrater in fhort to adopt -the
language .of one of the Iraders'cf the cart v. " to faf .
the wheels gwernmentr I am fenfible it is (aid by
incmT.inatit 13 air TloneIrom pure affection -tpj.be
conftitution, that tliir mt!tea -'j-rrhe'teoMe. the ex
j -rt r - -,- - v r jr '
auim niiiciidns ot their rights. Theic pentlemeri
feem to forget, that honefty and fincerity, rarely make
many prefcihons. They hew their goodnefs by their ,
works. Is it a maik cf flrong affeftion to the confli-
' tiitisn, in tlie deniocratic party, that they can oppofejhe
government it our tnnding l)ltem is Lad, what is to
he fubftituttd in its place i The federalifts did what
-they-thouglit btil ; the democrats fay it is vile ; but
none of them IFgood enough to propofe fomcthing;
better. Suc'i conduft argues neither genius, inte
grity, nor virtue. -Indeed, it proves ftrcnily the
want of them all.
" Another Very forcible body of evidence, that the de
mocratic party are endeavoring to dettroyour govern
ment, ariles- from the unceafing llrain of calumny,
which hnsbetn poured out urkn every friend to its ad
miniftration. As foon as the federal govcrnmf nt be
gan its operations, and its courtc was m lome degree
marked out, the nioft prominent and influential cha
racter were defignated for dellruflion. Mr, Hamilton
was the author of the finaricfal fyftem. Accordingly,
he waa fubjefted to thervileft abuferlhefoulcft eppro- '
brium, which could be caft upon him, by the 'vile ft,
and fouleft wretches, hich the dens of mifchief could
furnifh. Thisprticlice was pnrfuCd without any. ctfTa
tion, until he retired from efnee; Mr. Jay was ap
pointed Chief juftice. A life of unfullicd integrity,
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I 0 tt:: people ot we unuea ciaies.
difncclt taflj tor caufe their. rights, -..atjtcaft expire in
s mnvulfion. Now. let it he renewed, that the
" Notes oa yirgihia' were publifhedbefore-ihe forn
Nation of our Federal Ccnttitution. vvnen tnai c
tent took place, Mr. Jcffetfon faw his favorite fenti
menf completely Jatisfied. - Our rights' ruvei
out a Convulfion, and a, form of government was eftab
liihed, which bid fair to fxure the'tu agaialV' thfe fu-
1 am now to cllablilh the laft part of the fit ft. pro-
nofition, viz. That Mr, J-ffirfm,, and 'his party, have
t 1 . K.t t . 1 n:.. a l
ton? endeavoured tofifjiroy cur r ever at umiuiumn. nu4
here 1 lhalltcmaiK once,, tor an, tnat A connuer every
effort which has been made, every plan which has been
purfaed, by the democratic party aS being dirc&lf
cr indireaiy,' chargeable lo Mr. JcfierfoiK He j fo1
perfect
mcafurcsTo feet without heads, 'as'to afen
to, any . of hjs fubordinates, without, pfefuppofiog his
confent and" approbation,
Having, as I thinlk flifiwn $lt jeffwfoa's boftile
fpiritowardi the conftituuon, it will not be furpnz
aWgevotioTrMnVTraTrTaleTitOdia coun try's,
caufe and the raofl eminent and diftinguifhed fci vicef,
were overlooked, and a torrent of calumry for year?,'"
was poured upon him from every Jacobin focielyi, un
til he fought for peace in a fituation, -which was lefs
obnoxious to the foes cf our government. Mr, Ellf
wotth; one of the ablefl, and mcfl virtuous "men,
which this or any other country can boat! of,-has had
tBe hardihood to render great fsrvices to his country, ,.
faftiohMoty-Hi9-revard-ha8 been detreaiofi - Mr
ficJcenngj nonett, piain vutuces, oigmiicu, euu a...
ble, in an eminent decree, in office, i? vilified, and de
famed; out of office, is purfued to the folt tude of the
-WilUCl IICXS, 11 HIE IUg-UW il) tilt. ., '
and cry of ilander, falfhood and villainy It is net ne
ceffary to add further names, except; the prefent, and
former Prefidcnt of the United States.-" Mr. Adams,
ia purfuing thofemeafures which haveibeca rftccmed
Federal, has fuffered more foul reproaches, than the
depraved inhabitants of Billin'gfgate b'eflow upon each
otherr " Common decency that plain vulgar civility
which is paid to the world in, general, by the moftun
polifhed members of focicty, has bcea denied to the
Chief Magiftrate of the United States ; and conduft
more'file. than is pfaaifed by thieves aad robbers, las
been often afcr jed to him by the Democratic prty.
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