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have already said and written to many otll-

ers.
But while | cannot consent to be brought
forward for the Presidency, | am ready and
willing 10 do all that | can for the cause of
Democracy. The times require the e~xertion
of all the friends Of the cause, and mine shall
neither be withheld nor relaxed. We have
gone back not merely to the Federal times
of General Hamilton, and the elder Mr..
Adams, but far beyond them-to the Church
and State times Of Queen Ann, and the Cor
poration and State time of the first and Sc
cond George; in a word to the Wing times
Of Sir Robert Walpole; whose long, corrupt,
and pusilanimous Administration was a con-
tinued practice of Tory doctrines upon
Wing professions, and the source and origin
Of every curse which now effects the Eng
Iish people. We have gone back to the
English times when the paper system, the
fundingsystem, the banking system, las banks
OF circulation, stock-jobbing, national debt.
taxes, paper money, loans for the existinS
generation to spend, and for posterity, to
pay, , chartered companies, with exclusive
privileges, and monopolises and exemptions
from law, the South Sea scheme, and a thou
sand other cheating contrivances, were all
Matched into existence under the hot incuba-
ton of Wing Legislation. We have gone
back to the Walpole times, when corporations
began to treat with the Government as
equals, or to dictate 10 it as masters; when
submissien to insult and depreciation from
abroad. and tyranny TO patriots at home, was
the practice and the policy Of the Admins
%tration; when the money was spent for par
ty objects, which should have been devoted
TO the public defence; when, TO preserve
peace, the nation was not put in arms, but
the minister placed upon his knees; when
good men were prosecuted, and the bad were
promoted; when military, naval, and civil
officers were dismissed from employment
for voting against the minister, and hns PAR
%iisans put into Office for voting for him; when
secret committees, composed of political
hacks, were made inquisitorS into the con-
failed TO find what the minister sent them
10 hunt for.
We have gone back to the times when
this. and such as this, was the, work Of the
English Government: and when 4 Wing Ad-
ministration gave all the originals of which
or Federal Wings are now presenting US
with faithful copies here. In every thing.
great AM small. foreign and domestic, legisIa-
tive and executive, the Walpole Wing Hea.
sures Of the reign Of George the Second,
are the measurers Of our Federal Wings
here; and If the master spirits now in com
mand should have a. long lime Ia work in, as
their great original had in England, thev
would probably succeed in giving us rs much
deb. and taxes, as many paupers and PEN
sions, and rs MANY corporations 10 rule, gov
ern and bride US. as the English people now
lave. But | fancy the reign will not be
quite so long as that OF the WalpoIe Wings
in Enyland-rhat it will hardly extend 10
twenty-five years;& of this the master spirits
seem 10 he a little suspicious themselves, and
therefore are ..for making hay uhih the sun
shines" Haste 10 the wedding is the tune
10 which they dance, double quick time is
the time Of their step. Hence the rapid re-
movals. Hence the hurry in every thing
Hence this extra session OF Congress. which,
in the brief space Of half n dozen weeks, and
under the fire of a ~solsiital summer sun, and
amidst the sweltering heats of the dog DAYS,
is expected to do as much as Walpole ac-
complished in one Of the seven years Tory
Parliaments of which he was the Wing au-
thor. As 4 compensation, however. for do
ing so much in so short a time, Congress is
~ NC pcfilltcu 10 sinh INTO tne QuIel ana pas
sive condition Of a bed Of justice, (Lit de
Justice Of the old French monarchy, for The
registration of edict, or to realize, for the edi-
f%ca,ion of the American people, the me-
taphysical conception Of the dumb legisla-
ture which gave so much celebrity to the
Able Sieyes. In a word. we are permitted
to vote upon the bills, without telling the
reasons why or wherefore, which The mas
ter spirits prepare for us in secret, and Law
before US in public.
j consider myself called here to be pre-.
sent at the immolation OF our Constitution,
and at The formation Of a new Government
to be composed Of Bank and State, in which
hank is 10 be master and State is TO be slave,
and the people to be taxed and plundered
for the benefit Of both. am here at the
holocaust Of the Constitution. If they sue.
coed in their measures, there will be moth
ing left Of that instrument but its ashes.
This, sir, is what | snatch a moment to
write to you in answer To your inquiries. 1t
is a frank letter, such as my feelings dictate
and the times require; and you are at liberty
TO use il in any way that will accomplish its