it proper there is a party which is just as to you as ever the party was and which we believe you wish most fervently wish to it is the republican party at the head of which is the present administration it will be in vain for you to deny this it is not in your protest only that we look for the evidence of it it is in your conduct on the floor of from an occasional difference with the measures of the administration we should not have drawn this conclusion because such a result might have been expected from the different and habits of different minds but when we find you organized into a corps against the administration and pursuing your opposition with as much system and i will add as you manifested towards the we can have no doubt that you wish their as devoutly as ever you wished that of the yes it is not mr only it is the administration which you it is their united which produces all this agitation and screaming among the birds of night they long for the day fall which better suits the of their sight for the season of darkness when the peculiar of their organs may give them an advantage and their fierce and spirit may have full scope for and after some arguments in favour of the principle the author proceeds that conference is a medium of communication between the states it shows to one state the opinions of another and to the united states the result of the whole those who on the comparison find themselves in the if they he the genuine friends of of harmony and of the union will sacrifice their private to those great public objects and thus by between the states will be prevented will be avoided and these will continue to fall where the constitution intended them to fall on the people by their such will always be the result while the people continue united virtuous and patriotic � or say that a country is cursed with a who instead of thus sacrificing to the public good would sacrifice every earthly and every heavenly consideration to the views of their own ambition then there is the more occasion for concert and good understanding among the virtuous and pacific majority so that whether in times chap xvi the of internal peace or trouble the conference is constitutional harmless and when was it ever more so than on the present occasion when to say the least of them a parcel of hot young men to resemble s character of the earl of to be the up and down of themselves together to and ruin one of the most virtuous and able public servants that ever blessed a free nation and did you suppose that it would be in the power of such men as you are to shake the gratitude and attachment of the people to such a man as mr what could you have thought of us what could you have thought of yourselves of mr we had supposed it might have been truly said as dr johnson is reported to have said of sir that he is one of those men with whom if a person were to quarrel he would be the most at a loss how to abuse but in this sentiment dr johnson went upon the supposition that the abuse should proceed upon facts or at least have some small degree of resemblance to them the power of invention and of which you have displayed were together beyond his calculation the objection of want of energy is then taken up the protest had against mr in this language we ask for energy and we are told of his moderation we ask for talents and the reply is his merit we ask what were his services in the cause of public liberty and we are directed to the pages of the written in with alexander and john in which the most extravagant of their doctrines are maintained and we ask for as a republican standing forth to stem the torrent of oppression which threatened to the liberties of the country we ask for that high and honourable sense of duty which would at all times turn with and from any compromise with fraud and speculation we ask in vain the reply to this is spirited and personal presenting a strong example of the author s power of sarcasm this is just such pretty little sing song composition as with senses half awake dream over for their first and too are you that hold this language concerning mr as to the most prominent among you we ask for your energy and we are told of your we ask for your talents and me reply ia vol i � one of the people your and your we ask what are your services in the cause of public liberty and we are directed to your co operation with the british cabinet and the british author of war in to justify the plunder of our commerce we ask for your as and we are told of what you were and what you are � of your former attachment to the pure principles of the administration and your present and frantic against them we ask for that high and honourable sense of duty which with disdain on all selfish considerations of private and personal looks only to the public good we ask for the mind which that great object with calmness and discretion which instead of and itself upon a partial view of a measure takes the time to look patiently and calmly to all its consequences in all its bearings to allow to every consideration its due weight and then instead of rushing to its decision in a state of feverish passion takes its ground with that dignity which results from a conscious mastery of the subject � from mingled and firmness 