The gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1798-1799, 1798-09-24

guf7d with uniformity q rePoie would perrin
for rvan1 Of food AID ezs1ciIe s-Bzt = Pro
ce1d-
From ia vh-n tie aivdory Congress IF
the colonies met, TN I775 After th- darlzra-ion
| Of independence there was 10 band Dat com
mon oonlant to hold them together- Than,
bsoo=s. independent aaes, lh=y rgrffaah77fsa. and
became eanuz6fad ii aLlanas by srsatg' WHICH
was a1el Z z-tia1s g rgg}lsa.raaioa md sllatHzl
auii7u. This araaty proved Faf5cisat to bring
the war To- Huocsfafpl daT-, and ProcaFe from
Creat-Britain that ackaoE]e5gn=nt Of our n
dependence which rendered i complete. But
ELL the S1ares were not azasa, thoagh hey
were 70 filed; bsczuls rhs fovaTeignry p each
State remained entire, and Coagr=fs ha2 4
TIE power to rsaaumszZ The State govern
mzuts, with only one OF TWO exceptions, had
Jingle executives, bur the general gorrrnuen
fifn def-ire5 snzms) had neither Legislative.
judicial, but more especially executive power,
At this tilue, while Arabla15or At Lonaoa, tAe
PfeGdsnt wrote his celebrated book emitted
"A DrrtEcE OF rHE AwtKIcAx coSsTlrU
rross,' il whi-h from tae hilfory IF al feFub-
les bs a5uadantly proved The dearaaire ten
szncy o. TsEins al power p one BoDr; donbt-
les with view of dlcou aging his country
men fTom thinking that the feebIensfs and IL
Gznifoance Of he United States could BE- RING
died BY adding TO lhe powers orthe then exiting
Co0grefs. This book moa Prob45ly Prodaoe5
,h= PreEent federal c0nait4hon--The l4irsr
bears very lrong analogy to the eanAitalioa
Of M4F4ch1f,rs, which difHers but Ittl= from
the chatter gOyernment, and this laA was
copied il its form from that Of GIeatBritain.
Thus a length, II about fftsen years fTom
he FRI eFay Of he colonies to az II sszasri,
they Pzg-d through TIE intermediate Rage Of
allazz to coafolidated saiau. AID that form Of
government which had beeh adopted BY TIE
Jingle States was ch0len for the whole, exhibit
ing tie novel and uagni6oeot fPea7cle Of tx
teen States with he moi excellent Pe-aazr con
Ritutions, governed, a. ozs, b general coaaitu
ton Gnlar 70 tbeir own. As IN tie ooaltiru-
t.ons Of TIE fozraI States The rights of ths
individual are 10 where arrog2ted, and nowhere
limited except 70 The Preoiie point Of com mon
as well as individual iaf.ty; 70 in the qs7srai
government, tn. rights of yta<J and ia-igi lulls
are preferve5, and rh= former are no more
abridged Of fovereignty than the individual
under the State-forms Of bis rights and mil5r;es
in the aFage aate Of natu-e-that is, il beth
CAFES the cona,tutions are compass of TIL. moG
p=rfel kind in theory, an ! have ref4m5laace
or rather Gmilitude which tends to mutual
difference and efesm. This the world never
beheld before-May it never c.afe to b-hold il
twas not only nsceG.ry thar this great a..
rangement ihoald take place when i dd, to
guard againf the convulf IS Of Europe which
were even then forsfe.n, and to heal th9 mani
fold dfaafss Of our own body poltic but i
was expedient that it hould Be efFe3ed while
our great revolutionary characters were yet on
the f1ge to recommend it BY their aPProba-
ton. Their iong-uied fidelity and eventual
fuccefs were fronger arguments in the public
mind than any speculative opinion unadiaed BY
experimental th1s America was n lers for
tunate in bs tine when tie contribution was