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Ajbcs, pot per tarty 170 0/7, linseed, per gall, 133
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? r - . Leogan 2 6 33 m
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PHOCION—No. XI. ' '
THE opinions of Mr. Jeffcrfbn, relative to the '
present conjlitution of the United Stalci, ate nextjh) 1
order to be con(id:ied. :
r . If he is not aut'ifederal, it will not be denied that
he entertained very conlidt'rable objc&ioaa to the '
33 constitution, -and that his advice 'to call a second 1
convention, if adopted, would have prevented our
having ever obtained so good a one. '
Some of his opinions, relative to the constitution/ e
are to be found in a feiies of letters, written from 1
Paris, in the yeai3 1783 and "Partial extracts '
from these letters were publiftied in 1 j, by s ffrend t
of Mr. Jeffcrfon, as a vindication ot his ferferalifm. r
How far they eflablifhed it will now appear. a
eo Is>"a letter, dated 20th December, 1787, after o
e'xpriflinfr his approbation of some of the leattites <
of the new conllitution, \yhich had been generally &
approver of, and which he could not well object to, g
he fays, " I will now add what Ido not like i firft, '
the orr.iffion oi a bill of tigh'ts, £tc. &e. The fe
cond feature i diflixt, and greatly dislike, Ts, tile d
>3 in every inftanie, »f the necessity of f'
' rotation in office, and mojipjrtfciildrly in thecafc of ti
the Prefider.t. Smalfer ohje£tions srff, appeal '<
in fad as well as law, and the binding all periods, ti
legislative, executive, and judicial, by oath, to main- ei
tain that eanjiiititi-.il. 1 do not preiend to decide "1
, what would be the bed method of procuring the tl
o * (tablifhttient of the manifold goo.i things ip tbi's tt
0 Conltitutuin; -and of getting Vid of the bad. Whe- qt
7 ther by adopting it in hopes of future amendment, ci
or, after it has hew duly weighed and canvafled by pi
the people, after feeing the paits they generally so
and thjfi rhey generally approve, ro fay to at
4 them. " we fee now what you wish r feud together k
4 your deputies again ; let them frame a conjlttutiun fa' it,
3 you, omitting what.you have cmdenmed, and ejlallifh hi
? ,n S ft powers you apfre-Oe." Even-thtfe will be a
-2 great addition to the energy of your governnirnt. fee
1 At all events, I h</pe you will not bfc difcoursged ke
: Irom o(hcr trials, if tlie present one (hould fail of ht
* i s full effects. The late rebellion in MafTacliiifetU. " a
has givep more alkrtn than 1 thiirk it' ihould have
done. Calculate, that one rebellion in thirteen dates,
I 111 the course of e!ivtn years, is bat one for each '- a
5 fati in a cert fury and a half; nor tfill any degree of bil
ower in i)>e lia»Ja of governmerit, prevent iiifur- ha
; ™9i«n«. France, with all its despotism, and two wl
or three hundred thousand men in aims, has had fid
\ thrce infurreaions in the three years 1 have been tta
I he t e > ln "t'7 °"c of v. hich', greater ltumbm were 'm,
engaged than in Maflachiifetts, and a great de«l *h:
; more blood fpift. Compare again rht: ferocious de- a r
, predations of thrir infurgeKts, with the order, the Pr'
> moderation, and the almoit felf extiDguiflimcnt of P es
; uart -" another letter, of 6lh of July, 1788,
i hc fcy«. " Lam glad to hear the new conltitution dtp
ip received with favour: 1 fincercly wifli, that the fla
nine firft conventionun y receNe, and the four hfi " '
rejea it. The former will secure it finally ? while pea
the latter will oblige them to offei a decleralion of nat
. rights, in order to complete the union." Jn arather of son
the 31ft feme month, he fays, "The abandoftiug the
the principle of r.toeffary rotation in the senate. has, dilc
I fee, been aifapproved by many—in the cafe of the r><
Preftdent, by none. 1 readily, therefore, suppose the
my opinion wrong, when opposed by the majority ; Tvh
?V'' 'he former mflance,. and the totality as in oh,
oL at, u r r In a ktter of the 18th No'vember, po F
1 7 J■?' u S ' "AS t0 tlle b!U of n 'tf b,s ' of
I Aril think it fltould be atlded ; and lam glad to 1
lee, that three dates have at length considered the Vir.
perpeuial re-ehgibtlity of the President, as an arti- pie:
cle wh.ch ffioufi be amended. I ftould deprecate ptin
with you, indeed, the meeting of anew convention.» Jef,
How far these extracts may have been altered or 'con/,
mutilated, K liable to quedion and doubt, from the awt
manner of their appearance. It is observable, t4at wifl
thc extract qf t lie letter of the 6th July, lhou h colli
was intended as part of the one which is mentioned con,
in the debates ot Ihe Virgitna convention, does not ced (
anlvver- to the defenption g,\en «f i, by Mr. Pen- ame
diet on, piofelfes to have fe-en it f or . hj ex- '■ n
preWy Hates, with regard to that letter,, that M, » o
Jeffcr.on, after hav.ng declared hi, wish, icfpcfting « It
the issue of the delibcrationsoipon the constitution, '• f,
, Proceeds to enumerate the amendments which he " «
ef.curt ,c cxttad which was published, "It
m P ,f. OI J as the essential amend. •' f,
ment to be obtained by the rcjefUn of four .lates, " i
by no mcstu, agrte. with the account ,i,e n »
of if by Mi. Pendleton. n
Such ntverthelefj as they are, .htfe extracts f u J- «r!
i * l,a ; Mr ; advised the people of V
\ .rgima to adopt tue cotijli'.ution or not to adopt it «' it
upon a contingency; and that lie was opposed to it' «
J tU "' ojl ""p"'""" falurcs, lo much. f u , .. oi
1 »at «rft, if, dtJCoufilename it s adoption altogether '« tl
without previous amendments, u/greatfy d£j
the abandonment of the ptinciple of nefejary rcta- " *\
Tp TP, oJ t' "I nof ' in the- cafe » (i
Of President , he wifl.ed the principle of rotation <<
to extend not only the executive, hut ? c Z "
tali" T- tl ; C >'° V ' rr ' ment ' 'he senate a- »
iralt, as is explained in a iubfequenr letter, 'j'hia <• „
objedtongoes ,0 the very figure of tb , gove/n! « I
Z 1 V t r - y ' m l nrtant article, and while it iut '•
tifces the afferuon that he was opposed ,0 the "
'° n ' " lfu " :e ; ,f 1,8 ™>si important features it »Kr
:: *
tr f
Which are incompatible with the Irincibles r7ft tl
government, and disposed to mdtrdv t'l- / "° r '
wb jit"l**: ::
| The extiadefrom Mr. Jefferf«„' s le, (er f t Da „i a l *1
as they arc, prove then that he, at firll
: nanted the adoption of the conflitntion '' ■ " °^' ni
live form. Xny
ner, and with the force n- .«• ... s rna »- H
to pronounce that he wiP-ed" 1 !' ' lrfiUle l!mei
currence to a fetand convention VhZT'VI *">
he takes, while , f" J
to remove the alarm n.tutallf inured hi','" 0 "' *
furreSion in Maffachufett,, which had recently
c -red, a flrong confitmatioo of thj o p io L
%
S It 19 Rot eafyto ondcifliud wlist other ol hi»
• comments on that circumlfince crfuld have, l/at to
. obviate the anxiety which it was calculated to iiifpirc
in the people for an adoption of the eonffiiution, i
the without a previous attempt to amend it, and to re-
Jt-j move all apprehension of internal convul/tint from
the dangerous expesiine&l of a second c««iveution.
hat It is not poflible to avoid remaiking, \>y the way,
th& that t'hefe comments of Mr. Jcffeifon oiuhe rebrl
>nd !>•') afford a cmious and char aft crif/it faaipie of la ,j
aur S ,c ar, d calculation. " One rebellion in thirteln
Hates, in the course of eleven ycais, is but one for i
on/ eat; h ftiSe in a century and a half," while France it <
om seems had had three infurredfions in three years,
its In the latter inltance, t\u: fubdivifioiis of the en- t
•lid tire nation ait confounded in one mass, in the for- c
m. roerj the fuiaivmons are the ground of calculation, j:
and inns a inferable sophism. is gra»-ly made a bafij
ter political tonfuiation and donduft ; for, according t
t«B to 'he "data flared, it was as tiue that the United g
Uy Statis had lwrd owe -rebellion iit eleven years, eiidan
:o, gering their common fafety and welfare/ as that vi
■ft, France had had three infufie£tio»s in three years. p
fe llrus it appears from the Very doc.uteauts pro- tl
tie duced in exculpation of Mr. JfefFeiTon, that he in
of fadt difcountenaiiGcd, in the firit instance, the adop
of tiom of the ctii.Siiution, favoiing the idea of an at
:al tempt at previous amendments by a second conven
i», tion, which was precisely the line of, policy follow
'a- ed by ill those who were at that time denominated
de anl'tjedtral, aitd who have generally hnce retained
| t e their original enmity against the constitution. As j'
us to>thofc letters of Mr. JefFerfon, which are /utfc
e- quent to his knowledge of the ratification of the U
it, confiitution by the requisite number of Jfatet, they 4
>y prove nothing', but that he was willing to pldy the , j
|y politician. They can at best ®nly be received as j
to afl.B ot fulmijjion to the opinion of the majority,
•r which he profelTes" to believe infallible, resigning to d
r it, with aH pofiible humility, not only his conduct,
but his judgment.
a. it will be remarked that there appears to have
t. keen :s:> want of verfatUity in Lie opinions; they ,•
(i kept pace tolerably well with the progress of the
)f buliijcfd, and were quite as accommodating as circum- j
i. fiances leemed icquirt.* On the 31ft July SB, C '
■e when the udopiion of the constitution was knttun,
s, the various and weighty objections of Maich 1787,
h a d rdolved themselves into rbe fmple want of a
,f bill cf rights, and even that defedl alarming as it
bad been, might be supplied at a future period, t
0 vvhcji it fh6jld be sou id ncceflai v. November
1 tollowing, 011 the strength of the authority of three
" |^ re s (overruling, in that instance, the maxim of ,
e implicit dcfeieftce for the opinion of the .Jhajoiity)
1 tnat lately folitarv defect acquires a companion, in
. a revival of the objection to the re-elegibility of the
; Present. And another convention, which had ap- 1 .•
speared 110 very alarming expedient, -while the entire 'r.
, constitution was in jeapardy, became an o§|f<a to be 1
1 deprecated, when partial amendments to an already 1!
: efiailijUd conjlitution were alone in question.
} TroiTi tht of fentimcnt, which ap- r l#
: pear ,n the Cxtrafls that lir.ve been published, it is rr '
F natural to infer tlwt had the whole of Mr. Jeffer- r •
F son's co.refpondence on the fubjeft been given to J'
the pub.ie, much greater o'ivcrfitie. would have been { '
• « But in'order to determine with accu- ,
racy whether or not Mr. J-ffc.fc, was a f.iead to ,T
the conlhtutmn, we (hotlld- refer to hi? opinions, , x
-while the refuli was doubtful, and not to his opini- ..j;
ou, When after its adoption, hk flat ion and love of ,
popularity made it expedient to in the will £L
of the majjnty. ■ tlre >
It appear, fro«r the debates in thfc conventioa of
Vug,ma, that Patrick Heftry, at that time the ch -m
pioaof rhcantifdera! patty in Virginia, ami the on tl
pr.ncpa] opponent ot theco, (litution, quoted Mr. "Ji
JeJjcrJons npimsn, as an authority for reteflin-r the 1. •
constitution. Mr. Pendleton 7JaZ T
aivay Mr. J.flerfon's opinion s he (fated it to be " a
win, 1 l,ut tl,zjirjlnmc inventions might accept the T'"
because it would fccure the K
containsd, and that the four LJ might refJe xa ac- r
cede till they Compelled the others to" accept esttain
amendment*." Mr. Henry replied, " the gentle-
M m *l n . h:,s . c,M * c »*«ureJ to eteplain Mr. Jefferfon's
opin on, into an advice to adopt. He wifhen
I Jates to adopt, and that "tIZ
fomewhete to reject it. Now, ifJZZII
( to prefc, fo,m to sub £
.. / w forgive me leave to afl { , what is the '
fubjlantial pari of his counfcl ?ft is rl, af f
""7 ft "l U ' d rt *' S ' thfy ,cU ,ha ''' from ''he tD'
(l accounts, New Hampshire will g '
.. !U T V whn V hen will follr be found to S""
1 fjiit f rf tvs adopt it ? 19 U R
What fays Mr. MaJifon in reply to this-" //
" ?fi < h "> "»* -- It ffollov our Pr ° V '
own reason } is u proper to adduce tK, " ner * •
o! rcf P men,, not within these wfl'lsMf
the , op,", 01) u s a[l i mportant chlraa were ' to mad 4
on tl., s occasion, could we not adduce a """I,
.. f'^f er Kteat fid, > are w - U " ho a 7 ch
'V he R opinion) are not to fe gaici
« 1 J'' '■ "' S VV , l " ki ' "° W to f ui ™ to thf o pi ,•
«"f fU " : " n be y"" ! the "''antic ? I believe t°" °
that were gentleman now „ n this fl uo , he T"
" ' rorthc /^ :io " of tin's conftiiui&'n ; °"
I «.(h h, f ~,ne had never bee,, memic!U j j " '
every ttuhg fpoksn here relative to his man>
S y d bC/ F r^V lF ° Ur dfbalCS 5e S Magi
(< . 1 3111 nie measure acquainted with ° U ' "
his icntijTtenta on this fuhjett •it i t t ■ 1 r
;; unfold what he has informed Ifi
«- 4^».
"or denies the ju.Ws of Vhaf of Mr" <
l'J-icitude appears te be to defltoy tfee' i,!P ' f '
what he impliedly admits , a !It !"J uen " of prove
.. ,i 3 trr ' f r! r - L'*' 11
opinion, and to get ri* cf thc fuSirfl. f 1 41
fible. bjec. as faff as po f. hope
He confefles a knowledge of Mr Teff, r r„ > r °/,f Tt
™«« .» » n, rl Uri,„. „t„{ T,
58 (,n *■*.£rz ass tt
•thrfc
J his ever is seen J,ojsllify the lanciufwi), that if Mt. ? e f.-
*t-t« ferlon's advice had ptc vailed* Vugiuia, Norih-Ca.
fpirc rolina, New-York and Riiode-lflanri, would have
tion, ' hen thi own iherttfelves out tf the union. And whe
j re- ther, in event, they would have been at this
from day reunited• to iu or wlwther there would be now/
ion. any union at all, i™iappily a speculation which need
*ray, only be 'purfu d, to derive from it ther pleafjng re.
sbel- Scdiions, that the dang-r was wifely avoided, by unt
flo pursuing Mr. Jtfferfon i advice.
rteln We may now far'ely pronounce that, while the
r for conflitution was depen/iing before lhe people of tins
ce it ccrtiiitiy, for their coulideration and decilion, Mr,
:ars. Jefferfuii was opposed to it in fame of its mcjl impor
en- taut futures, that he wrote his objeiftknis te iome
for- of his friends (leading and men.) in Vir-
Hon, gin fa, and at Jirft, went so fur us .Wdfjutilenunct i/f
>aii.i tho' he cfteriJirds, finding it received irt
ing the United States with favor, recommended it on the
ited ground at exp diency, hi tenaii. iOi.ti'igeucies.
ian- It may be added that '(oirie of his ul ji ">ion#»
hat which? went to the very jlruliurf *f tlie 't.n.ipit
i. parts of toe government, huvc nut been removed b f
ro the p, opofed amendments.
in ' " riiociON.
op
sft. 10'h tHE GAZETTE Of TliZ UNITED STATES.
Mr. FerUO,
j j AS Mr. Adams and Mr. Jcff'ifJn are he'd
as t lie candidates for the fVtjld.uey of the Unite J
States, and as the advocates of the u let are taking
, thij tnoft adtive meafuies to ensure luccefs, hy cir
filiating hand hills, containing libels on Mr. Adams,
and by all the other devices which the ingenuity
the raa '"-' e °f 'he democratic locieties can invent,
the si.ends o£ that citisoeu and of good order, are
seriously called upon to cae-t themfelvrs, and have
io expert f rom ev<sry caTidid and impartial
printer a circulation tu their lfricluies on the opi
" ' moils of Mi. Jefferfon, that the people may be welt
acquainted with the charadcrs of both candidates
before the ele&ion takes place fur filling a flation
he ,m i )ortnllt > on t ' lc properly filling of which t
the future happhicrfs and peace of America so cf.
g feiittally depend.
1 1 herewith transit* with that view, the opi
nions of Mr. Jefferfon on the fubjeQ of American
" d manuf<t3urei. a friink to man UFACTBRk#,
£ EXTRACT
' Front Mr. JktiKKioN's Notes on Virginia,
PACE 174.
re T
3 1 "The political economics of Europe, have ef» '
) tablifhed it as a principle, that every state fbouhf
" maoufafture for itfclf: ar.d this principle, like ma.
Ny otheis, we tiansfer to America, calcu*
' lating the difference of* cireutnftanccs which fhotilcJ
" e often produce a different reluct. fn Europe, ths
' r e lands are either cultivated, of locked up against ftc v
y cnltivntor... Manufacture mtift, therefoie, be
ed to, of necoffity, not of choice, to' fuppoft th<f
' surplus of their people. But wchave an immer.frty'
of Land,, courting the industry of the htiftrtndtnanj
Is it bell, then r that all our citizens should be etn
ployed in its iinprovetnent, or, thii 5 one half (hortld
be called off froirr chat, to exercise nijnutadiKr'ea!
and handicrafts "for the other I Those taho labour iHT~ ■
3 the earth are the ehtjtn people of God, if etei he had
• a chofcn whole Lieafta-he has made his pe»
culiar deposit for fubftaniial and genuine virtue.—
It is the focus, in which he keeps alive that facrei
' fire, which otherwise tfcape from the face of
the earth. Corruption of morals 111 the mafcof cuU
' tivators, is a* pltcnomeuon of which no age nor na
tion has furniftied an example. It is the mark set
on those who, not lookiirg up lo heaven, to their
own foil a"iid indnltry, at does the hllft a nil (Trail, for
theii fubfi.lrnce, difpenrl foi it on the cafualtics and '
' caprice of ctfioners. • Depcr.duncs begets lubitivi.
1 ence antl venality ; fufTocaies the germ of virtue,and
prepaies fit tools for the designs of ambition. This,
the natural progress and consequence of the arts, ha*
lom«imcs, peihaps, been rctaiuetl by accidental
ctrcumrtances : but generally fpcaking, theprctior*
tion -which toe aggregate of the other clajfes of the ci*
tizens bears, in any Itate, tn~that of its hulbatid
tlien, is the proportion of its unsound to it 3 healthy
parts, and is a good enough barometer, whereby t»
mcafure its degree of corruption. While we have"
land to labour, then, let us kr.rf * wish to fes our
Cjtizehs occupied at a v.Ork-b; NCH, or twirling
a distaff. Catpenters, rnafym, finirtis, arc want
ing in husbandry ; but, for the general operation of
manufaßme, let our work-shots- kemath im-
Europe. It is better to cairy jiroviliont and ma
. te.ials to Kotkmen than bring them to the
provifiar.s and materials, mid,' ivith them, their mart'
ners and principles. • The loft, by the transpor
tation of commodities acrofc the Atlantic, will be
made up in hafipiaefs and permanence ot govern
ment. Th% mobs of great .cities, add just £or
much to the support of pure government, as sore*
do to the strength of the human body."
The above, Mr. Fenno, is a complete cohdemna*-
tion of commerce, manufaSures- and all the arts', the
fourtes of employment and tveallh to many thoufands>
of our fellqw citizens, wh<; are here likened to thr
seres' of,-rile humau body. Will not the ratfmg ® >
man, who entertains sueU apimons, to the Chief
M.>gi(lracy of the Union, be a death blow to alJi
our infant mannfuSures ?
NEW-YORK, October i 5.
T he removal of the elegant fiatues and painlingt
fioin Italy to Paris, inilead of .honouiiug Franc*
and enkindling emulation, will have the contrary ef»
fe£ts. Lrd Kaims temark-s, that Newton's im»
provemcms in mathematiclss, had a great effed in V
rendering ihut science stationary for a time in Great
Britain, by destroying competition—for who could
hope to exceed him ? The maHeily monuments
of arts, removed te Paris, will have the fame effcs.
All will lauguitli undei the blaze of Italian giory*
1 he Argu: this morning lets otu a hint of an ia
uruetion in Canada, and an expectation of further
news. The arrangement then ieemt to be wellun
a-ijieodhf our patriots. A line of agency between- g
N w- 1 onk and Canada is doubtleU'cftablifhed by
roitiv of the iulutrcftion.