is a copy secured in some way by Hamilton's political opponents:

OCTOBER 18, 1787.

_Dear Sir_:

Since my last the chief of the state party has declared his
opposition to the government proposed, both in private
conversation and in print. That you may judge of the _reason_ and
_fairness_ of his views, I send you the two essays, with a reply
by Caesar. On further consideration it was concluded to abandon
this personal form, and to take up the principles of the whole
subject. These will be sent you as published, and might with
advantage be republished in your gazettes.

A. HAMILTON.

This copy, so obtained, seems to have been the basis of the following note
in the _New York Journal_:

"A writer in the state of New-York, under the signature of
_Cesar_, came forward against the patriotic _Cato_ and endeavoured
to frighten him from starting any objections and threatened that
'_Cato_ would be followed by _Cesar_ in all his marches;' but we
find that as soon as ever _Cato_ came freely to discuss the merit
of the constitution _Cesar_ retreated and disappeared: and since
that a publication under the signature of Publius ... has appeared
in that state."

Another evidence in confirmation is, that the last of this series was
printed on January 3, 1788, and the New York Assembly met on the 9th of
the same month, after which Governor Clinton was probably too occupied to
write more, though no conclusion was announced in the last essay, and it
is probable no such termination was intended. Following these are the two
essays of _Caesar_ mentioned above.

Cato, I.

The New York Journal, (Number 2134)

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1787.

For the New York Journal.

TO THE CITIZENS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK:

The Convention, who sat at Philadelphia, have at last delivered to
Congress that system of general government, which they have declared best
calculated to promote your safety and happiness as citizens of the United
States. This system, though not handed to you formally by the authority of
government, has obtained an introduction through divers channels; and the
minds of you all, to whose observation it has come, have no doubt been
contemplating it; and alternate joy, hope, or fear have preponderated, as
it conformed to, or differed from, your various ideas of just government.

Government, to an American, is the science of his politic