veral passages of
his draught; several others we were both satisfied were from the pen
of Hamilton, and others from that of the President himself. These he
probably put into the hands of Hamilton to form into a whole, and hence
it may all appear in Hamilton's hand-writing, as if it were all of his
composition.

I have stated above, that the original objects of the federalists were,
1. To warp our government more to the form and principles of monarchy,
and 2. To weaken the barriers of the State governments as co-ordinate
powers. In the first they have been so completely foiled by the
universal spirit of the nation, that they have abandoned the enterprise,
shrunk from the odium of their old appellation, taken to themselves a
participation of ours, and under the pseudo-republican mask, are now
aiming at their second object, and strengthened by unsuspecting
or apostate recruits from our ranks, are advancing fast towards an
ascendancy. I have been blamed for saying, that a prevalence of the
doctrines of consolidation would one day call for reformation or
revolution. I answer by asking, if a single State of the Union would
have agreed to the constitution, had it given all powers to the General
Government? If the whole opposition to it did not proceed from the
jealousy and fear of every State, of being subjected to the other
States, in matters merely its own? And if there is any reason to believe
the States more disposed now than then, to acquiesce in this general
surrender of all their rights and powers to a consolidated government,
one and undivided?

You request me confidentially, to examine the question, whether the
Supreme Court has advanced beyond its constitutional limits, and
trespassed on those of the State authorities? I do not undertake it, my
dear Sir, because I am unable. Age, and the wane of mind consequent on
it, have disqualified me from investigations so severe, and researches
so laborious. And it is the less necessary in this case, as having been
already done by others with a logic and learning to which I could
add nothing. On the decision of the case of Cohens vs. The State of
Virginia, in the Supreme Court of the United States, in March, 1821,
Judge Roane, under the signature of Algernon Sidney, wrote for the
Enquirer, a series of papers on the law of that case. I considered these
papers maturely as they came out, and confess, that they appeared to me
to pulverize every word which had been delivered by Ju