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THE HAMILTONIAD. 
 
 CANTO THE THIRD. 
 
 Argument. 
 
 Winter delineated in all his horrors — A flight fketch in imitation of VirglCs 
 Night — Somnus, in companion to the Royal Faction, adminifters a fhort 
 repofe — They are awakened by their familiar Demon — Each utters a dying 
 Speech — The Gods, offended at their criminality and arrogance, extinguifh 
 their humanity in a metamorpholis — An Elegy at their hall of caroufal. 
 
 WHEN, at paft four, P. Mi the radiant God, 
 
 (Led by the Paphian Boy's imperious nod) 
 
 Sunk, neath th' horizon, arm'd with am'rous fires, 
 
 His magic fong, announcing his defires : 
 
 To clafp his Thetis to his burning bread \ 
 
 Leaving a fordid hemifphere to reft ; 
 
 Amid th' inclement rulers of the hour — 
 
 When Winter's icy minions urge their pow'r — » 
 
 In that dread Seafon, when the faline force, 
 
 Congeals the Baltic and arrefts its courfe : 
 
 When favage Boreas begins his reign, 
 
 And pours his terrors on the heaving main ; 
 
 Howling terrific in the murd'rous rale ; 
 
 To fcare the Mariner, and rend his bellying fail j 
 
 It is a recorded truth, that this meafure, which the ariftocrats fo vehe- 
 mently reprobate, originated with their own body, during that delufion of the 
 national mind, when they had confidcrable influence.— It was propofed by the 
 legiflature of Vermont, and fupported and recommended by the legiilature of 
 Maflachufetts : Yet thofe gentlemen, who fanclioned this alteration in the 
 Conftitution, four years ago, when "a mifchievous perverfion of the national 
 wiil, was only probable ; have now fulminated againft its adoption, although 
 the mifchief has been experienced ! 
 
 We have heard it loudly advanced, that this amendment, is calculated to 
 make Mr. JefFerfon, Prefident for Life : If it were poffible that this great mau 
 
j BE HAMILTONIADd 
 
 Rebut him, way-worn, from the port of Eaffc, 
 
 And hurl rum backward throucrh the roarins leas 
 
 While love-lorn Mary, looks with tearful eyes, 
 
 And pitying Vv freights the wind with figks 
 
 When the Balance revel in the floods ; 
 
 "When the gaunt wolf wakes Echo in the woods, 
 
 And bays the fdver Recent of the ni<>ht, 
 
 Who flitters through the concave of the fi^lit ! 
 
 When Seamen ftiver at the hollow bhfl, 
 
 While the fnow gathers round the thick' i:ing maft-^-' 
 
 When Bacchanals uplift the flowing bowl, 
 
 To elevate the functions of the foul ; 
 
 Thaw the cold juices of the gelid bfeaft ; 
 
 And welcome tipfy Revelry, and Jeft.— ^ 
 
 could be fall"- to his moment r>us trufl, It is not this amended provLGon, thar 
 could, in any degree affift him in a re-ele£lion : — His official fupport is depen- 
 dent on the approbation of his grateful country ; and this proceeding only 
 operates to make the path of duty, fo clear, between the people, and the ob- 
 jects of their envied favor, that no art, no Jefuitiim, in future, can torture, or 
 fufpend, or mifdirect, the popular inclination. — Mr. Jeflerfon now refts, more 
 decidedly, upon his ahilhy and patriotic n, than heretofore ; rnd no eledtor can 
 objecT: to the alteration, who has difcernment ; nor any candidate for the pri- 
 mary honors of the State, who is confeious that his integrity directs hit 
 action. 
 
 Southern Influence. 
 
 THE tory bloodhounds have been long yelping upon the dangers that may 
 arifc from* f*rtgt)aa or Southern Influence', and to give colouring to this ideal peril* 
 the have had rec.ouife, as uuial, to the moil flagrant and bitter untruths : But 
 even the letter of their infamy, o'n%this defpicabie theme, is nothing, when com- 
 pared with the deep villainy that feeds their motives. Their aim is thoroughly 
 diabolical, and gees not only to a reparation of the eaftern from the fouthern 
 ftates, but to create a civil war ! to introduce the molt deadly antipathies in 
 fociety, and cut the knot of amity afunder forever I Yet thefe mifcreants 
 have the audacity to call themielves Fedcialifls t Good Heaven forefend us 
 from the pcrridy of thefe untraceable and cruel men, before whofe limitlefs 
 and unnatural ambition ail the gentle conliderations of the bofom, and all the 
 nobler afrecnons which fpring from the love of our country, fall away and be-' 
 come cxaaea. Their have dared to lift the parricidal arm againft the folemn 
 Compact of our brotherhood, our ftrength, and our glory. They would chacc 
 the fympathies from our nature, and enthrone the furies in the heart : they 
 furego the ccmfoling beatitudes of their God, 
 
 And /-west Religfott malt, a rbapfoJy of ivordf.' 
 
THE HAM XL TON IAD. 
 
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 \yhen GofTips huddle near the crackling fire, 
 To prate of Ghofls and incantations dire : 
 How Witches blight the harveft as they lift, 
 And ride on befoms, through the clammy rnift 5 
 Of Wizards' talifmans, and ills they wrought, 
 Till the Senfe fears the image of tfie Thought ! 
 When the keen fleet makes puny Travellers flgh— 
 When wild geefe fcream, erratic, through the fky — 
 When Farmers, for their kine, break up the brook — 
 When Crickets chirrup from the fmoky nook — 
 \yhen the Vermont er yokes his wheellefs cart, 
 And feuds, with ven'fon, down to Bofton mart : 
 When, round the blazing hearth gay groupes incline, 
 To munch their ihacr-barks and to mull their wine : 
 
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 We will now examine this aflertion, by the inconteftible evidence of facts, 
 and prove that thefe bafe aiperlions on the government are not only without 
 foundation but palpably wicked and unjuft. Prelident Jefferson has mani- 
 fefted a candour in his nominations to office, which reflects dignity on his 
 judgment. He has difdained to be fwayed by a partiality for any particular 
 State, in his enquiry after integrity and talent, but has generoufly inverted thofe 
 with authority whofe fitnefs warranted the meafure. Afluming the Potomack 
 as a central line of the Union, we fhall difcover that his enemies have elevated 
 his character for impartiality, by provoking this inveftigation ©f his difcernment 
 and liberal nature. He has indulged no local prejudices at the expence of his 
 country's honor or fecurity ; his ways have been the wavs of wifdom, and his 
 «paths the paths of peace. In our opinion he has carried a tolerance of offence, 
 in fome inftances, too far : no man fhould be permitted to enjoy an official 
 ftation, under a mild government, that he would annihilate, in obedience to a 
 Britifh faction, if his powers were equal to his antipathies. The following lift 
 of names, acting under the appointment of Mr. Jefferlbn, will be a complete 
 refutation of all the calumnious roaring about an excluding fouthern influence : 
 Northern. — Mr. Dearborn, (of Maine) fecretary of war. — Mr. Lincoln, (of 
 Mafl.) attorney-general. — Mr. Bowdoin, (of Mail) appointed minifter to Spain. 
 — General Hull, (of MafT.) governor of the new territory of Michegan. — Mr. 
 Granger, (of Conn.) pofimafter-general. — Mr. Livingflon, (of New-York) for- 
 eign ambaiTador. — Mr. Armftrong, (of do ) do. — Mr. Gallatin, (of Pcnn.) fecre- 
 tary of the treafury. — Mr. Smith, (of Mar.) fecretary of the navy. 
 
 Southern. — Mr. Madifon, (of Virg.) fecretary of State. — Mr. Monroe, (of do.) 
 foreign ambafiador, — Mr. Pinckney, (of S. C.) do.— Mr. Tucker, (of do.) treaf- 
 urer of the United States. — Mr. Claiborne, of (M. T.) governor of Louifiana 
 pro tern. 
 
 Thefe are the principal offices at the difpofal of the Prefident ; of the minor 
 officers a majority are federal. " The officers of the navy, alfo, are in a large 
 proportion from the Northern States, and the fame party. All this {hows that 
 
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 THE HAMILTON IAD. 
 
 When the North Gale, in whittling wrath, appears, 
 
 And bites the fclvidges of Yankcy ears : 
 
 When the vaft hills are whiten'd o'er with (now — 
 
 When Graziers lied their ricks from fens below — 
 
 When Darkncfs circumfcribcs the cheerlefs day — 
 
 When Fifties wriggle from the fnow-fraught bay — 
 
 When vifcid Serpents burrow 'd, in a heap, 
 
 In interfecting curves, fraternal fleep : 
 
 When bell-deck'd horfes draw the rapid fleigh, 
 
 O'er beds of ice (beneath pale Cynthia's ray) 
 
 To Pleafure's midnight haunts, where Beauty throws 
 
 Her fears aiide, and dances, fips.and glows ! 
 
 When fhrinking Toil, collapfing in the air, 
 
 Lights his fegar and puils away defpair — 
 
 the Ad mini fixation are not aiming at a preponderance of local influence : be* 
 fides, the owners of the funds are moftly within the north, and yet the louthcrn 
 members of congrefs have in every inftance promoted the credit of the public 
 flocks. — But, above all, the fecretary of the fenate is a citizen of Bofton. This 
 department of the National Legiflature is the depoiit of the fecrets of govern- 
 ment. If then the fouthern members had any thing of a private nature, which 
 ought not to be declared, would they give their votes for Mr. Otis, the father 
 of a man who is.outrageous in his oppofition ? It is evident they truft to hij 
 honor and their own integrity. Either the fecretary muft know improper con- 
 duel, and become an agent in the tranfactioo, or his'fon fhould be reproved for 
 his defigns to excite a jealoufy between the ftates." 
 
 " Virginia Dcminaticn has become a cant phrale among the fed:ralijls of New-* 
 England. As the Prelident of the United States belongs to Virginia, and that 
 State, being the oldefl: and largeft in the Union, and almoit unanimous in favor 
 of the republican caufe, has of courfe a leading influence in our national coun- 
 cils, it has become a principal but very defpicable object of the oppolition, to 
 excite againft them the prejudice, rivalfhip and envy of the northern flates, 
 particularly MafTachufetts, the largeft (tate in New-England. Eefore we fufFer 
 ourfelves to be influenced by thefe infidious arts, let us review the conduct of 
 our Virginian brethren, while MafTachufetts and Virginia coincided in politics. 
 To avoid all mi flake and difpute about facte, we will take the flatements of an 
 impartial Hiftorian, Dr. Ramsay. 
 
 The Parliamentary claim of a right to tax the Colonies, was the very point of 
 our Revolutionary conteft, and the Jlamp c£l in 1765, was the memorable occa- 
 uon of bringing the principle to a virtual admifJion or determined oppofition. 
 " On its being fuggefted from authority, fays the Ilifrorian, that the (lamp ofii- 
 cers would not be fent from Great-Britain ; but felecled from among the 
 Americans, the Colony agents were defired to point out proper perfons for tliD 
 purpofe. They generally nominated their friends, which affords a prefumptive 
 proof, that they fuppefed the act would have gone down. In this opinion they 
 
THE HAMILTON IAD. 
 
 69 
 
 When Strength perceives the iflue of his breath— 
 When bank*-Iodg'd Swallows doze in demi-death—- > 
 When Matrons knit their hufbands* fleecy hole — 
 When mucus dribbles from the froft-night nofe ! 
 In that inclement hour, when Day grew blind, 
 And Somnus throws narcotics to mankind : 
 Clogg'd with the poppies of Lethean fleep, 
 The Faction flumber'd and forgot to* — weep ! 
 Each hand withheld from throwing Fortune's dice, 
 Rofpite from mifery, and woe and vice : 
 The ides of March the fourth were all forgot, 
 And their what was, abforb'd in-*— what is not ! 
 Gaunt Envy ceas'd, immortal men to hoot, 
 And even Slanders foamv tongue was mute. 
 
 were far from being being lingular. That the colonifls would be ultimately 
 obliged to fubmit to the Jlamp aci was at firfl commonly believed, both in -Eng- 
 land and America. The framers of it, in particular, flattered themfelves that 
 the confufion, which would arife upon the difufe of writings, and the infecurity 
 of property, which would refult from ufing any other than that required by 
 law, would compel the colonies, however reluctant, to uie the. flamp paper, 
 and confeq'uehtly to pay the taxes impofed thereon. They therefore boafled 
 that it was a law which would execute itfelf. By the terms of the Jemp ail, it 
 was not to take effect till the firfl day of November, a period of more than 
 feven months after its pafJQng. This gave the colonics an opportunity for 
 leifurely canvaffing the new lubject, and examining it fully ou every fide. In 
 the firfl part of this interval, flruck with aftoi>iihinent, they lay in filent con- 
 flernation, and could not determine what courfe to purine. By degrees they 
 recovered their recollection. Virginia led the way in eppo/ition to the Jlamp a£i. 
 Mr. Patrick Henry brought into the Houfe of Burgefles of that colony the 
 following refolutions, which were fubftantially adopted. 
 
 RfilvcJ, That the firfl adventurers, fettlers on this his majefty's colony and 
 dominion of Virginia, brought with them and transmitted to their pofterity, 
 and all other his majefty's Subjects, fince inhabiting in this his majefty's faid 
 colony, all the liberties, privileges and immunities, that have at any time been 
 held, enjoyed and poffefled by the people of Great-Britain. 
 
 Mt f o l vedy That by two royal charters, granted by king James the firfl, the 
 colonies aforefaid, are declared and entitled to all liberties, privileges, and im- 
 munities of denizens, and natural fubjects, to all intents and purpofes, as if 
 they had been abiding and born within the realm of England. 
 
 Refolded, That his majefty's liege people of this his ancient Colony have en- 
 joyed the rights of being thus governed by their own afiembly, in the arti-. 
 ?le of taxes, and internal police, and that the fame have never been forfeited* 
 
THE HAM J L TON I AD. 
 
 'The bright ftars twinkled in the vaulted fky j 
 Refponfive Hogs, were grunting in the fly ; 
 The bark lay torpid on the azure wave ; 
 The winds were hufli'd in th* iEolian cave ; 
 The Gofiamer was chain'd, and all at reft, 
 Except the Cyprian boy in Chloe's breaft. 
 
 At length, the Demon, leagu'd with Hate and Care, 
 Touched each, in turn, and call'd him to Dcfpair : 
 With mudd'ring fympathy, and op'ning claws, 1 
 The Band uprole, in a Tartarean noiie, J- 
 With ennui yawning, till they crack'd their jaws ! J 
 They cau, in ire, their glaring eye-balls round, 
 And fcqwPd, and fcar'd, and ftirugg'd, and moan'd 
 and frown' d : 
 
 * Nox crat ; et placidum carpebant feffa foporera 
 Corpora per terras ; lilvrcque et feva quierant 
 JEquora ; cum medio volvuntur fidera lapfu ; 
 Cum tacet omnis ager ; pecudes, pictseque volucres, 
 Qua:que lacus late liquidos, quxque afpera dumis 
 Rura tenent, fomno pofitx fuh nodte blenti 
 Lenibant curas ; et corda ohlita laborum. 
 
 At non infelix animi Phrcnifla : Vircil. 
 
 Tous ces vers eoulent d'un movement prefque infenfible : cliaque phrafe 
 a fon rcpos : et I'on y fent le charme du fommeil. Voyons fi Ton retrouvt 
 l'original dans la copie de Voltaire. 
 
 Les aftres de la nuit rouloient dans le filence ; 
 Kole a fufpendu les haleines des veuts ; 
 Tout fe tait fur les eaux, dans les bois, dans les champs, 
 Fatigue des travaux qui vont bientot renaitre, 
 Le tranquille taureau s'endort avec fon maitre ; 
 Les malheureux humains ont oublie leurs maux, 
 Tout dort, tout s'abandonne aux charmes du repos. 
 Phoeniffe veille et pleure, 
 
 or yielded up, but have been conftantly recognized by the King and people 
 of Britain. 
 
 Refolded, Therefore, that the General AfTembly cf this Colony, together with 
 his majefty, or his fubftitutes, have, in their representative capacity, the only 
 exclufive right and power, to lay taxes and imports, upon the inhabitants of 
 this Colony, and that every attempt to veffc fuch power in any other perfon or 
 perfons whatfoever, than the General AfTembly aforefaid, is illegal, unconfhtu- 
 
THE HAMILTON I AD. 
 
 7* 
 
 With cank'ring fangs, all grinding to moleft, 
 They humm'd, like Hornets, brav'd within their nefh 
 Some (hriek'd their woe in alt, while fome were harfh j 
 And croak'd, like Bull-frogs, in the difmal marfh : 
 Some, of vail bulk, lay poifon'd by Ill's leaven, 
 Like proftrate Titans, who'd offended Heaven : 
 They few Perdition's gulph, black, deep and foul, 
 Till the pain'd Sight brought terror to the Soul ; 
 Some, with burft hearts, hung penfive o'er their knees 5 
 While others felt them fhrivell'd into peas : 
 Many fat couchant on their quiv'ring hams, 
 Entranc'd with apathy, and cold as clams. 
 Some perch'd, prefumptuous, mid the Tory train, 
 Blackguards in thought and act, and blood and grain 3 
 Prompt or to fwear, or lie, or (lab or run, 
 And unroof Chapels, in the noon-day Sun : 
 
 tional, and urfjuft, and hath a manifeft tendency to deftroy Britiili, as well as 
 American Liberty. 
 
 Refdved, That his majefty's liege people, the inhabitants of this Colony, are" 
 noi bound to yield obedience to any law, or ordinance whatever, defigued to 
 impofe any taxation whatever upon them, other than the laws or ordinances of 
 the General AfTembly aforefaid. 
 
 ltefolvafi That any perfon, who fliall, by fpeaking or writing, afTert or main- 
 tain, that any perfon or perfons, other than the General Affembly of this Colo- 
 ny, have any right or power to impole or lay any taxation on the people here, 
 fliall be deemed an enemy to this his majefty's colony. 
 
 Upon reading thefe Resolutions, the boldnefs and novelty of them afTe<Tted 
 one of the members to fuch a degree, that he cried out, " Treafon ! Treafon I'! 
 They were, nevertheless, well received by the people, and immediately for- 
 warded to the other provinces. They circulated exteniivcly, and gave a fpring 
 to all the difcontented. Till they appeared, moft were of opinion, that the adl 
 would be quietly adopted. Murmurs, indeed, were common, but they feemed 
 to be fuch as would foon die away. The countenance of fo refpeclable a 
 Colony as Virginia, confirmed the wavering, and emboldened the timid. Op- 
 pofition to the ftamp act, from that period, affumed a bolder face. The lire cf 
 liberty blazed forth from the Prefs : fome well judged publications fet the 
 rights of the Colonifts in a plain but ftrong point of view. The tongues and 
 the pens of the well informed citizens laboured in kindling the latent fparks 
 of patriotifm. The flame fpread from breaft to breaft, till the conflagration 
 became general. — 1 Vol. 58. 
 
 In the difpute with the King and Parliament, Maflachufctts took an a<5U vc 
 part. Riots enfued, ia conference of which both Houfes of Parliament, by 
 
72 
 
 THE HAMI1.TOKIAD. 
 
 Mifcrcants who'd fatten in immoral wai's, 
 Who'd tear the Decalogue to light fegars ! 
 Who'd wade in carnage, for a demi — price, 
 Minions of Guilt, and pioneers of Vice. 
 Fed poune'd on Fed, and brother taunted brother, 
 Spitting, like roafting apples, at each other ; 
 'Twas you're half Democrat, with freedom cramm'd ; 
 
 And you, are trimming, Sir, and you be d d ! 
 
 Tlfil P G thus, in irregular ftrains, 
 
 Slaver'd out his refentment and pictur'd his pains : 
 Take the Sun and the Moon from the day and the 
 night, 
 
 Draw the Earth's mail) linch-pin — AboJifh Delight : 
 Should the Fifh cleave the feas, or Birds chirp in 
 the air, 
 
 While M n fills my official chair ? 
 
 an addrefs, requeued his majefty to take meafurcs for tranfpofting every inhab- 
 itant of Maffachufetts Bay, whom the Governor might fufpeel to be guilty of 
 Treafon, in order that he might be tried, " within the realm of Great-Britain, 
 purluant to the provifion of the Statute of the 3/J of King Henry the 8th." — 
 The Legislature of Maffachufetts, againft which the meafure was immediately 
 aimed, was not in fefiion. The Houfe of Burgefies of Virginia met foon after 
 official accounts of it reached America ; and, confidering the caufe of their 
 filler fhte of Maffachufetts a common caufe, fet another fpirited example of 
 oppofuion, by Refolving (among other things) ** that all trials for treafon, of 
 for any other crime whatsoever, committed in that Colony, ought to be before" 
 his majefty's courts within the faid Colony ; and that the feizing any perfon 
 refiding in the faid Colony, fufpecled of any crime Whatfoever, committed 
 therein, and fending fuch perfon to places beyond the fea to be tried, was high- 
 ly derogatory of the rights of Britifh fubjects." The next day, adds the Hifto- 
 rian, Lord Botetourt, the Governor of Virginia, fent for the Houfe of Bufgeffe* 
 and addreffed them as follows : " Mr. Speaker, and Gentlemen of the Houfe 
 of BurgeffeB, I have heard of your Refolves, and augur ill of their effects. You 
 have made it my duty to uiiTolve vou, and vou are diffclved accordingly." — 
 1 Vol. 83. 
 
 The Parliamentary duty on Tea was afterwards laid, and oppofed on a fun- 
 damental principle, as to the right of Parliament to tax the Colonies. In this 
 oppofition a quantity of Tea, belonging to the Eaft-India Company, was de- 
 ftroyed in Bolton harbour. In conl'equence of which an act of Parliament was 
 paffed, for flopping the trade and blocking up the harbour of Bofton. On 
 this Subject the Hifiorian obferves, " The patriots who had hitherto guided the 
 helm, knew well, that if the other colonies did not fupport the people of Bof- 
 
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 73 
 
 Thence I batter'd at Freedom, with Pitt for my guide. 
 While L — st — n and H — m — N flank' d on each fide ; 
 There we plann'd focial ills that admit of no cure, 
 And made poor ftruggling France, a vile caricature ; 
 Rais'd taxes and armies to coax and alarm, 
 And with rank T iry pus touch'd the Federal arm ; 
 Strove to fncer down all good, and were riding poft 
 hafte, 
 
 When the thunders of God, laid our infamy wafte ; 
 Awful JufHce uprofe, and furveying the evil, 
 Kick'd our factious Cabal, and their plots to the Devil 1 
 Now I feel as perturbed as tides 'neath the Moon, 
 Or a Dollar ramrn'd down, for a voyage to Canton i 
 Or an Iberian Bull in the murderous ring : 
 Or Love in the fuds, or a Pig in a firing : 
 
 ton, they mud be cruflied, and it was equally obvious, that in their coercion 
 ^ precedent, injurious to liberty, would be eftablifhed. It was therefore the 
 intereft of .Bolton to draw in the other colonies. — It was a'fo the intereft of tha 
 patriots in all the colonies, to bring over the bulk of the people, to adopt fuch 
 efficient meafures, as were likely to extricate the inhabitants of Bofton from tha 
 unhappy fituation in which they v/ere involved. To effect thefe purpoies mucli 
 prudence as well as patriotifnl was neceflary. The other provinces were but 
 remotely affected by the fate of Maflachufetts. They were happy, and had pg 
 caufe, on their own account, to oppol'e the government of Great Britain. That 
 a people fo circumftanced fhould take part with a diftrefled neighbour, at the 
 rii'que of incurring the refentment of the mother country, did not accord with 
 the felfiik maxims, by which States, as well as individuals, are ufually governed 
 The ruled are, for the molt part, prone to fuffer, as long as evils are tolerable, 
 and in general they muft feel, before they are roufed to contend with their op- 
 preiTors ; but the Americans acled on a contrary principle." — 1 Vol. 1 IS. 
 
 " In Virginia the Houfe of Burgefie3 on the 26th of May J 774, refoived, that 
 thefirft of June, the day on which the operation of the Bo/ion Port Bill was to 
 commence, fhould be fet apart by the members as a day of fafting, humiliation 
 and prayer, devoutly to implore the divine interpolation, for averting the Ixeavy 
 calamities which threatened deft-ruction to their civil rights, and the evils of a 
 civil war — to give them one heart and one mind, to oppofe by ah juft and prop- 
 er means, every injury to American rights." On the publication of this Refolu*' 
 lion, the Royal Governor, the Earl of Dunmore, diftblvcd them. The members, 
 notwithstanding their diflblution, met in their private capacities, and figned an 
 agreement, in which, among other things, they declared, " that an attack made 
 on one of their filter colonies, to compel fubmilCon to arbitrary taxes, was an 
 attack made on all Britith America, and threatened ruin to the rights of all, un- 
 lefs the united wifdom of the whole be applied." — 1 Vo). 1 18. 
 
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 THE HAMII.TOKIAD- 
 
 Or a Knave with the ftripes of a flern, civic whippcr, 
 Or a Cod on the hook of a Marblehead fkippcr. 
 Wifdom's render'd the halters of Cruelty noofelcfs : 
 Now, like Cats in new buildings, our talons are ufelcfs : 
 Some arc fick — foine cafhier'd and from duty exempt, 
 Or hung upj like torn Coats, on the pegs of Contempt ! 
 With a iing'd paw, like Lolly's duclile Cat, 
 
 The bcardlefs Star-Gazer of S d fat ; 
 
 Hammering Lies ! — Like Vulcan at his fire, 
 Bcgrim'd with filth, and recking with his ire : 
 More fubtle Cati'unc.^ in {hade, behind, 
 Led the hot forge, or raL'd th' inflaming wind i 
 He'd fafliion'd the tenth Lie, with fkill profound^ 
 When Hell's infernal Tenants, crawPd around •> 
 
 This was the fecond time tlic houfe of Burgeflcs incurred the difpleafure of 
 their royal Governor, and were dilToived for fupportiug their brethren of 
 JvIafTacliukt^. 
 
 In thofe days, as well as lately, Virginia took a leading influential part in the 
 republican caufe, and a&ed with union, energy and fuccefs. But did the citi- 
 zens of Bolton — did the inhabitants of MatTachuferts — did the people of New 
 England then complain of" VWgua* Domination There was the fame caufe for 
 fuch complaints then, as now. And they were indeed made. — Yes, Hutchifon, 
 Bartuiid, and other royalifb and tories, at that day, made fubftantiahy the fame 
 complaints of Virginia influence, as the fedcralijis do at prefent. But the iv/jigs, 
 particularly of Maifachufetts, cooperated with their brethren of Virginia. " In 
 the beginning of March 1 773, the Houfe of BurgefTes appointed a committee of 
 eleven perfons who fhould maintain a correfpondence with her " fitter colonies," 
 on all the fubje(£ls which related to the common caufe. — It was on this occafion, 
 that the legislature of Mafiaehufetts paid a juflr tribute of refpect to the exertions 
 of the Virginians. They came to feveral Relblves. and were careful, in the firft, 
 to lpeak highly in praife of Virginia. Thev appointed a committee of fifteen' 
 members, and directed them to " prepare a circular letter to the Speakers, re- 
 queuing them to lay the fame before their refpective AfTemblies, in confidence 
 that they will comply with the wife and falutary refolves of the houfe of Bur- 
 gefTes of Virginia."— Gord. Hi/t 1 Vol. 224. 
 
 A Virginian patriot, the illuttrious Washington, by an unanimous appoint- 
 ment, took the command of our army, and, in harmonious concert with his 
 brother officers and fellow-foldiers of all the fiates, conducted it to a fuccefsful 
 and glorious iiTr.e. Through the commander in chief, Virginia had a fuperior 
 in lue»CB in the military part of the revolution. — But that circumftance gave the 
 other ftates no juft caufe of complaint. 
 
 A momentous crifis in our Revolution was the Declaration of Independence 
 It was a bold but necelTary meafure. The public mind was in a degree prepar 
 
THE HA MILTON I AD. 
 
 75 
 
 3 
 
 In horrid extacy they faid, or fung ; 
 Can one fo mifchievous, be yet fo young ? 
 Be this a Fete d'enfer, grim Moloch, howls ; 
 Let Io Paa??, charge Perdition's Souls ; 
 'Twixt Sin & Shame, a new-fledg'd Crime is tracM : 
 'Tis H — lb— t — m, nrft in order plac'd ! 
 The old Enormities are all difgrac'd. 
 Be it the theme of fell Tartarean lays : 
 The Machiavelian Spirit gives it praife ! 
 
 LulPd from thefe fcenes by Sleep's embalming care ; 
 Then rous'd from Slumber's clutches by Defpair ; 
 The legal Prattler (fond of a debate) 
 View'd his burnt fingers, and thus figh'd to Fate. 
 Why am I now the fhut tie cock of Life ; 
 The point of Laughter, and the germ of Strife : 
 
 ed for it by the " Common Stnfj" of Mr. Paine, the moft popular pamphlet ever 
 published in America. But the firfl: official ftep towards it was taken by Vir- 
 ginia. The houfe of BurgefTes of that ftate, on the fifteenth day of May 1776, 
 when there were prefent one hundred and twelve members, refoivecl unanimwf- 
 ly, that their Delegates fhould be inftructed to propolb to Congrefs, that the 
 United Colonies be, by that refpedtable body, declared free and independent 
 State?." The motion was accordingly made, June 7th, by Richard Henry 
 Lee, one of their Delegates ; — and another of them, Thomas Jefferson, the 
 chairman of the committee appointed for that purpofe, drew the Declaration 
 Which was adopted and figned July 4th, 1776. — Ramf. Hif. 1 Vol. 32-1— Gordon s, 
 1 Vol. 84. . ■ ; 
 
 The articles of Confederation proving infufficient, a renovation of the Confti- 
 tution became neceflary. In this important meafure, alfo, Virginia had the hon- 
 our of taking the lead. " While the country, fays the elegant Hiftorian, free 
 from foreign force and domeflic violence, enjoyed tranquillity,a proportion was 
 made by Virginia to all the other States to meet in Convention, for the purpofe of 
 digeihng a form of government, equal to the exigences of the Union a — The firfl 
 motion for this purpofe was made by Mr. Madison, and he had the pleafure of 
 feeing it acceded to by twelve of the States, and finally to ifTue in the eftablifh- 
 ment of a. New Conftitution, which bids fair to repay the citizens of the United 
 States for the toils, dangers and wafles of the Revolution."— Ram fays Kijhr*; v % 
 Vol. 341. hi 
 
 In addition, to this remark ,of the Hiftorian, it may be obferved, that Mr. 
 Madison, being a member of the General Convention, and one of the Commit- 
 tee of five, who fat in their recefs, is faid to have had a principal agency in 
 drawing the Conftitution. He was one of the molt prominent advocates forirs 
 adoption in the Convention of Virginia, where he was oppofed by the celebrated 
 Orator, Mr. Henry. Afterwards, in the firfl Congrefs under the new govern- 
 ment, he moved the fubjeft of Amendments, twelve of which were pvepofed 
 
THE HAMIL F0K1 AD. 
 
 Why have you fufter'd, in the world s great man. 
 Contempt to hold a mortgage on my heart \ 
 'Tis not bar-practice, and defcrves no fee ; 
 If you fay 'tis, come down and alk old The. 
 Why am I thus encumber'd with diftrefs ; 
 Fd make you jujiif], if you were lcfs< — 
 WtfVe other Royalijls more dire than me, 
 "Who walk, on carpets, to eternity ! 
 Lo ! Draco fits a Tyrant and a Judge, 
 His tone ? a menace, and his thought a grudge . 
 No kindiy fy mpathics attune his age : 
 His pulfes quick'ning only in — his rage ! 
 O'er Freedom's fons, his aching eye-balls roll, 
 Hate, in his breaft, and Treafon in his foul ; 
 
 by the two Houfes cf CongrcT;, and ten of them ratified by a conftitutional 
 majority of the State*. Thole amendments both improved the Couftitution, 
 and alii rpCdfiJctted a large proportion of the citizens of the United States, whd 
 were diiTwistied with the ConCitution, as originally adopted, but who fromr 
 that time ha.ve been mofl fincerely attached to it. 
 
 General Washington, a Virginian, was unanimcufly elected the firft Prefix 
 dent of the United States ; and he felected Mr. Jefferson for the confidential 
 office of Secretary of State. Upon Mr. JefFcrfon's election to the Prelidcncy, 
 he appointed his bofom friend, Mr. Madison, to the fame office, which he ha'4 
 himfeif holden under" Prefident Wafhington. — The adminifbration receives the~ 
 cordial fupport' of' Virginia, and mofl of the other States. 
 
 CiiiTitnt of ' Xtxv-S.r.glaH.'i, from this hiftorical reyiew, yem fee the conduct of 
 Virginia, on the momentous quefbons of the Stamp Ac7 and other meafures of 
 the Brhiih Parliament to tax the Colonies, the Declaration cf Independence, and the 
 r-ederal Gmftitution, and alfo in relation to the Parliamentary attacks upon Maf- 
 lachufetts and the fufferings of the town of Bofton. As a State, till lately, 
 aVTafrachutetta harmonized and cooperated with her in the common caufe of 
 Liberty, j Her politics continue, as from the beginning, Republican. Her mem- 
 bers, her union, her political confiftency and coincidence with the original fen- 
 ti menus of the mafs of the American people, give her new, as formerly, great 
 weight .and 'influence in the legiflative and executive councils of the nation. — 
 Thc deyiation from firft principles, and a common policy, has been on cur 
 part :— As. a State, we have been divided, alienated and oppofed to the nation 
 and the States in general, and have thus thrown away, for awhile, cut national 
 influence ahd/confequence. Inflead of retracing our fieps, and -regaining out 
 former landing, by fair means, a difappointcd, defperate faction among us are 
 endeavouring, by all the little Anti-U'nfurrziwan arts in their power to excite a 
 State jealouiy againft Virginia. Of all poOIble fchemes of oppefition this is the 
 mo ft ungrateful, illiberal and mean ; and as fuch, we ought indignantly to 
 frown upon it." — ( Plttvfeld^un.) 
 
THE HAMILTON IAD* 
 
 ft 
 
 So mean, he'll creep for favors, through the rnire ; 
 Then fpurn the Dolt, that fated his defire. 
 The. Furies hail him, as he chills the day, 
 And Terror fialks, before him, on his way : ' 
 A Slave, in principle — an active Flaw : 
 A Dog, 'mong worthies, and a Fiend, in law : 
 At Death's black portal the worn mifcreant ftands : 
 With tearful eyes, and parricidal hands : 
 While Wifdom's manacled, and Honor weeps, 
 He prates of equity, and fays— he fleeps ! ! ! 
 His blood-ftain'd fangs made Defolation {tart : 
 And Mercy fhudder'd, as fhe view'd his heart. 
 
 Demi-fecluded from his fallen Peers, 
 Thus H. G. O. exprefled his well-bred fears : 
 
 Alexander. Hamilton, the late Oracle of Anglo- Fcderalifm, in a Report 
 made as Secretary of the Treafury in 1792, gave his opinion to Congrefs, that 
 " Ideas of a contrariety of interefts between the Northern and Southern regions 
 of the Union, are in the main as unfounded as they are mifchievous. The di- 
 verfity of circamftances, on which fuch contrariety is ufually predicated, au- 
 thorizes a directly contrary conclufion. Mutual wants conftkute one of the 
 ftrcngeft links of political connection ; and the extent of thefe bears a natural 
 proportion to the diveruty in the means of mutual fupply. 
 
 " Suggestions of an oppofite complexion arc ever to be deplored, as un- 
 friendly to the fteady purfuit of one great common caufe, and to the perfect 
 harmony of all the parts." 
 
 Reader, compare thefe fentiments with the ravings and railings, which you 
 read and heard from our northern Anglo- -ftdetaiifs at the prefent day, againfc the 
 Southern States in general, and Virginia in particular ; and learn what a mu« 
 table inconfiftent thing this fed^ral'ifm is ! 
 
 . In. the fame Report Secretary Hamilton obferved to Congrefs, the disturb- 
 ed ftate of Europe, inclining its citizens to emigration, the requifite workmen 
 will be more eafily acquired, than at another time ; and the effect of multiply- 
 ing the opportunities of employment to thole who emigrate, maybe an increase 
 of the number and extent of valuable acquisitions to the population, arts and 
 indiutry of the country. 
 
 To find pleafure in the calamities of other nations would be criminal ; but 
 to benefit ourfelves, by opening an afylum to thofe who fuller, in confequence 
 of them, is as juftifiable as it is politic. 
 
 In conformity to thefe juft fentiments a naturalization law was paffed, under 
 the faith of which foreigners perfecuted like our anceftors in their native coun- 
 tries, emigrated to the United States. In the progrefs of fedetalifm, towards an 
 hereditary fyftem, as one of the means of changing the genius of our govern- 
 ment, in order to accuftom our citizens to the exercife of arbitrary power by 
 dsg.-ees, it was thought advifeable to begin with foreigners ; for which pur- 
 
THE HAMII/rONIAD. 
 
 My Allies ficken — Baal is laid low, 
 
 And ev'ry month creates a new-fledg'd woe : 
 
 Were but their functions equal to their phlegm, 
 
 They'd run from me, who cannot run from them : 
 
 Each Caucus now, I reprobate and rue ; 
 
 Fd ftart an alibi, but that won't do. 
 
 Mefh'cl in the Fed'ral web, I'm leagu'd to work, 
 
 Fve worn the crefcent and muft Ihield the Turk. 
 
 W — rr — n muft drag each new-born Feud to light, 
 
 And I array them for ftatiftic fight : 
 
 Difreputable toil of fell diftrcfs, 
 
 Thar/* prais'd by few, and e'en that few gets lefs, 
 
 Fd publifh, could I, and without a fee, 
 
 My nollem faBum againft Liberty ! 
 
 po*e,a popular clamour was railed againft them, and then an Alien Afr pafied, 
 bv which, notwithflanding the national faith pledged by the naturalization law, 
 fcnd in violation of the eonfHtutional right of Jury trial, the Prelident was veft- 
 cd with arbitrary power to inflict, banifhment, without indictment or trial, at 
 his l'overeigu will and pL-afure, upon any aliens whom he might think danger- 
 ous, and who had not obtained complete naturalization. The political tenden- 
 cy of this meafure, to change the principle of our conftitution, was artfully at- 
 tempted to be concealed under the popular hue and cry raifed againft Aliens by 
 the federal partizans, and joined in by thoufands who did not perceive the ob- 
 ject 
 
 The venerable and virtuous State of MafTachufetts had been feledled by the 
 enemies to equal rights, as the focus of ftatiftic fedition. It was her Capital 
 that the late Gen. Hamilton defignated as " the head quarters of Anti-republican 
 principles f but recent honorable events have proved that it was a libel on her 
 general character. She might be deceived, but fhe could not be corrupted. 
 The infidious foes to the mild principles of our government, have employed 
 every means to feduce her from an obedience to her own declarations, and to 
 cloud her intellect with mifreprefentation. They affected to deplore an en- 
 dangered rtateof religion, which had no exigence but in idea ; while they were 
 £.<£tually deftroying the food of morals, by coarfe detraction, and every art that 
 falfehood, malevolence or folly could fuggeft. They held a majority of the 
 people of this State, in an ariftocratic (lumber, for feveral years, by continually 
 adminiftering deadly opiates, with the fuperfcribed alluring appellation of " or- 
 der and good govtrnment." This fatal delufion was upheld by confummate artifice 
 and incefTant intrigue, until it pleafed Heaven to deflroy this unnatural Anglo-tory 
 endeavour, by the means which they had adopted for its fupport. And the 
 " Jlieping Sanipfons" have at length awoke, and fhown their ftrength. 
 
 In the plenitude of a political lunacy, it was refolved that Mr. Elv of Spring- 
 geld fhould openly move for a violation of the laft governing teftament of 
 Washington, and create fuch a difficulty between the Northern and Southern ftates, 
 
THE HAMILTONIAD. 
 
 Bring me Medea's kettle, plunge me in : 
 Ah, lave thefe royal fpeckles from my fkin : 
 How fmall the error, when fuch ills commence ! 
 How great the evil, in the confequence ! 
 What's a palazzo, but the bafe of Care, 
 Unlefs Content fits jocund in our chair : 
 With fparkling virion bleffing Reafon's bowl, 
 And op'ning ev'ry alley of the Soul ? — 
 Yet, though oppofing modes- may vex the hour, 
 I truft Urbanity will keep his pow'r - r 
 To harmonize Ambition's ruthlefs fong, 
 And lead refplendent Charity along. — 
 Say, fhall the attributes of Peace be o'er ? 
 Shall focial blandifhments be known no more ? 
 
 3s would contemplate, on its becoming a law of the land, the Dissolution o» 
 the UNION' ! — Though every inftitute both divine and human, feemed to 
 forbid the meafure, it was fqueezed through the Legiflature of this Common- 
 wealth, by a majority fo limited as fcarcely to be indicative of approbation. 
 All the Republicans were alarmed, and the moderate federalifts began to pon- 
 der upon the disorganizing boldnefs of the proceeding. The fenlible yeomanry 
 argued with each other upon the mifery that was in perfpedtive : they well 
 knew that a reciprocation of advantages was involved in the pure confervation 
 of the Federal Compact, and that ail and every State, from Saint Croix to the 
 JMiJpfippi, were bound by policy, honor and humanity, to rcfift this terrible in- 
 road upon the common good. They well knew that New-England was the 
 carrier of the rich produce of the Southern department of the confederation, 
 who receive through the the Northern ftates the produce of the Indies and of 
 Europe ; and that although the duties to the government are firft paid here, that 
 the confumer ultimately bears the weight of the import. They know all this, 
 and confequently faw the awful danger of Mr. Elt's attempt to derange the 
 fyftem, and make a political volcano of their parent State, from whence the de- 
 structive fires were to be belched forth upon her affociated Sifters in legiftatiou 
 and ftrength. Their apprehenfion made them think with more depth and pre- 
 cifion : that thought awakened their duty, when they immediately clung to 
 firff principles," and expreffed their repugnance to the propofed innovation, 
 by giving a decided majority againft the promoters and friends of this cala- 
 mitous attempt. 
 
 It has been wittily laid, of this Mr. Ely, that he digefts his food better than 
 he digefts his ideas, and his perfonai weight gives to this obfervaticn the force 
 of an acknowledged truth ; but his mental weight would not authorife an un- 
 qualified fufpicion that he had any agency in the formation of a project, which, 
 if carried into effect commenfurate with the defires of thcfe who gave it fufte- 
 nance if not birth, might convulfe this empire from Maine to Georgia, If once a 
 fanatical fpirt is infufed in the organic mafs of elementary principles of £he 
 
'THE HAMILTON IAI7 
 
 Shall the prophane and vile, from Envy's den,' ■ 
 Stand on a parallel with radiant men ? 
 .Shall Rudenefs execrate Wit's polifiYd fong, 
 Merely that blatant Rudenefs dare be wrong f 
 Forbid, this harfh rcfult to be endur'd : 
 In this kind aim, let Party be abjur'd — 
 A Gentleman's a being Gods infpire, 
 Beyond the vulgar, and of purer fire ; 
 Reproving weakneffes by poignant fenfej 
 Never offending — Slow to meet oflcncc : 
 Either Minerva woos him to be kind : 
 One nerves his arm, the other nerves his mind : 
 Serenely firm he lifts his awful creft, 
 And Beauty neftles in his ample bread : 
 
 American commonwealth ; if Northern can be oppofed to Southern influence, hi 
 battle array ; if geographical limitations can excite political antipathies ; if wc 
 can have played off, in America, a miferable imitation of the blue and %rcen fac- 
 tions in Confhintinoplc, as they have been eloquently defcribed by the luminous 
 Gibbon — If wc are to have the fable of the big eudions and the little endions of 
 Laputo, fo happily conceived and exqinfitcly rold by Dr. Swift, unfortunately 
 realized, upon the fair bofom of this fplenduf and rifmg nation ; if confpira- 
 tors, in their caucufles aud clofeti, are hourly iuffered to pollute public opinion, 
 by multitudinous and atrocious falfehoods ; if the naufeating tale of a Virginia 
 influence, is to be echoed and re-echoed until the abominable authors of this 
 mod infamous and chimerical flauder, almoft believe it tcbe true — why then 
 we muftbid adieu to our wonted repefe, to our endearing fympathies — to pri- 
 vate and public confidence — to the paternal admonitions of Washington, and 
 to the order and harmony of our political fy items, where each and every por- 
 tion of territory anfwers and accords to the other, and the wants of a part, are 
 exuberantly fupplied by the induftry and talents of the reft : So ftands Nevv- 
 ."Englahd, in relation to the fouthern ftates, and fo ftand the fouthern ftates in 
 relation to New-England. Nor can one planet difappear from the galaxy, with- 
 c?ut ruin or confufion to its dependent fatellites. 
 
 That all thefe, and many more and worfe, would be the inevitable confequen-' 
 ces of Mr. Ely's motion, if thofe who firft conceived it, could be gratified in- 
 their wi flies, we have no doubt : but we have a doubt whether the extreme fo~ 
 lidity of this gentleman's intellectual organs ever did or could admit an imprel- 
 fion adequate to the extent of the rrrifchief involved in his difaftrous motion. 
 The Royal FaSlion are alternately defpairing and hoping, wifhing and fearing : 
 one day trying the refult of one wretched expedient, and on the next, of another 
 — following circular letters with pamphlets, and pamphlets with political feftivals 
 — decrying Britifh influence in public, and giving it force and currency in private ! 
 Tutored in machiaveliau ftratagems abroad, and infidioufly difleminating the fame 
 nratagems at home, to warp the public mind from its due regards for civil and 
 
THE HAMILT 1 ON IAD. 
 
 Si 
 
 Giving difdain to each unhallow'd fear ; 
 
 In action, noble — In expreflion, clear : 
 
 By Delicacy's mandate taught and rais'd, 
 
 He fmooths thofe ethics that the Schools have prais'd ; 
 
 (Like the involving fluid of our earth,) 
 
 Throws a decorum round his fpell-bound mirth, 
 
 That limits gladnefs with a pure controul, 
 
 And chains the effervefcence of the Soul ! 
 
 That, which in coarfer fpirits nurtures pride, 
 
 With him is dignity and eafe allied — 
 
 Like the young May, mid iiiuing fweets, he rofe — 
 
 His mien enhances what his heart beftows — 
 
 Love warms his pulfes with a gen'rous fire, 
 
 While Science meathes the fury of defire ! — 
 
 religious freedom ; to give to the citizens forms inflead of principles, and to 
 teach them difhuftof their own happinefs, by inhnuating a doubt of their own 
 political fufficiency.-'-Such, thefe incendiaries would willi the people to become; 
 tame and iniipid, believing' themfelves to be, their oton •worft enemies — like the 
 generous lion encaged, at once the fport and profit of his keeper ! — Thefe are 
 the politics and their effects, fellow-citizens, of fuch motions. It is like a lignal 
 to battle, or like the morning gun which announces the approaching carnage 
 of the dreadful day that is to fucceed the explolion. 
 
 When Maffaehufetts was firfi fettled, every circumftanee in Europe, confpired 
 to give a Republican tendency to the primitive inhabitants, which has never 
 been interrupted or perverted, from its natural objedls, the peribnal indepen- 
 dence of the citizen, and the fecurity of the government. — It lias been a mif- 
 taken idea, cherifhed by Britiih writers, and attempted, by them, to be impofed 
 upon mankind, that thefe original fettlers were ncurifhed in their infancy, by 
 the paternal care of that nation, from which they defcended ; the contrary ten- 
 dency of this afTertion is too clear, however to be difputed ; for thefe unhappy 
 aliens and emigrants, never came to this country from choice, but necefhtv, and 
 were actually difcharged on this inhofpitable foil, bv the convulfive efforts of 
 the Britifh nation, when the lpirit of civil and religious liberty, was in the 
 highefl ftate of effervefcence ; bringing with them an indignant fenfe of the 
 wrongs they had fufFered, in the place of their nativity ; outcaft and forlorn : 
 enraged and perfecuted, they fettled here as in a place of refuge, from the con- 
 tempt and hatred of their oppreffors — agreeably to the light of experience, and 
 thU influence of the political knowledge which' they then poffeffed, every mea- 
 fure and every inftitution became republican, from their natural attachment to 
 that caufe, arid to thofe principles, which produced the occaiion — The hundred 
 hills of Maffaehufetts became the mons facer to thefe determined plebians, who, 
 however very unlike the Plebians of Rome, never could be perfuailed again, to 
 be corrupted by the arts, or enchained by the force, of that government, which 
 had fyftematicaHy galled them, by every means in their powe* ; through all the 
 
THE II AMILTONI AD. 
 
 He thinks of man, as thofe who've frailties ought, 
 And his chaftc language dulcifies that thought — 
 Calm Pleafurc breathes her influence o'er his day a 
 And Virtue hails the moral of his lay : 
 A Chriftian hero, and the foe of Strife, 
 The Have of Honor and the grace of life ! — 
 The wiles of Policy mould ne'er efface 
 That cheap fuavity man owes his race ; 
 Electric charm, that keeps the Paflions even, 
 And gilds our antics, till we foar to Heaven ! 
 
 Like Marias peeping through Minturnian reeds, 
 Bcgrim'd, yet arrogant with daring deeds, 
 Crouch'd royal T — cv, behind Treafon's bier, 
 Warming with hate, then {havering with fear : 
 
 vaned fecnes of political hiftory, it appear?, as far as our examination has reach- 
 ed, that the People of this ftate may be deceived, but they cannot be aijlaved. 
 
 Alarmed by the hardy fpirit of thole original Republicans, the Britifh ad- 
 minhtration, adopted an early fvftem of rfplonage, and detached numerous emif- 
 iaries, to feduce, or intimidate the People — among theft, one Randolph wa* 
 confpicuous, whofe letters may be found in the third volume of HuUhinfins 
 Iiitlory of Maffachufetts ; thcie letter?, were continued from Sept. 20, in 167C, 
 to May 16th, in 1681), when the laft of them, was dated in the Goal of Bofton ! 
 where this milcreant had been confined,in one of thofe revolutionary paroxifms, 
 when the fovereign people of this State, (always vigilant and jealous of their 
 privileges.) took the liberty of vindicating their own rights, to the difcomliture 
 of the guilty. — A perufal of thel'e letters, in illufbration of our firft pofiticn, 
 would demonftrate the perfect fcorn, with which every occurrence relating to- 
 New-Eugland was held bv this courtlv millionary : we iliall felecft only onein- 
 ftance. among a number, taken from a letter, under the date of June 14, 1682 : 
 in this letter Randolph has averted, as follows, " the firft adventurers are eith- 
 er all dead, or their children driven out of their property, by their fathers' fer- 
 Yams, or ell'e they have become fo few and inconfiderable, as to be involved in 
 obfeurity ; and a* for all the perfons, concerned ia the faftion here" for fo the 
 inhabitants of New-England have been invariably Itigmatized in Great Britain, 
 ** I know but one man, who was net a fervant, or a Servant's fon, who now 
 governs the governor and the whole country." — Randolph calls the people of 
 this town BoiLii^rs, and Ufurpcrs, and charges them with a defign to form an in- 
 dependent Commonwealth, denying anv appeals to Britain ; in the true fpirit of 
 Britifh policy he affects to treat its military ftrength with deridon, and under- 
 takes, with 500 of his Britannic Majefty's guards, to fubdue and drive them 
 from the Province, as he proceeds to fay, that Mr. Levereti, is the only old 
 Soldier in the Colony, he having lerved,. in the late Rebellion, under Oliver 
 Cromwell. 
 
 All theje facts go to prove the fpirit of their ancefiors, and we know of noth^ 
 
THE HAMILTON IAD. 
 
 A Faclictis ague, varying his woes ; 
 Infiam'd at noon-tide, and at midnight froze ! 
 Thus the man murmur'd : — Fortune, pelt of Hell, 
 Inconftani wench — Ah ! Horace knew thee well, 
 Til fnatch the bandage from thy darken'd eyes : 
 Look at thy Slave ! — be kind — for once, be wife : 
 If there is truth in Salhtji, Catiline 
 Was but a partial facriflce of thine — . 
 Survey my royal friends, thou potent witch : 
 Some demi-damn'd, while fome are in a ditch : 
 Our immature Noblejfe, from Reafon feud, 
 Wriggling, like Tadpoles, through a ftagnant mud : 
 
 Lo, where his Grace of Br e, maudlin fits, 
 
 Dead to young Joy, — A bankrupt in his wits : 
 
 ing that can demonflrate any change among thefe Republicans, from that de» 
 termination and virtue, which their Fathers poffeffed : with the light of experi- 
 ence then blazing before our eyes, and directing our courfe, we fmile at the 
 idea that the Republican party will not be paramount : however modified or 
 fuppreffed, this virtue cannot be extinguifhed, and if the arts of Anglo Federal- 
 ifm, could bring it into action, woe be to thofe who fhould create the difficulty ; 
 the firm minority of 33,000, would, in fuch a crilis, foon become the majority, 
 and the Republicans, when it was " their cue to fight," would not want a 
 prompter. — Let the Tory Journal* then boafi: of their ftrength in this ftate — let 
 the dozing Sampfons, in their cups, charged with the Falernian grape, pro- 
 phane the religion which they affect to venerate, and artfullv infinuate cp- 
 po/ttion, when they really meditate REBELLION, in order if poihble to effect <-\ 
 feparation from the Southern States ! — But let them recollect that they are at- 
 tentively watched, in all their machinations, and if they ihould once dare to lift 
 tbiir parracidal bands againjl the pcacs oftbeir country, the lame magnanimity of heart, 
 which of old, made Randolph and Andros prifoners, (and of late, cleared this 
 State, of the worft of malefactors, although born and bred in its bofom ;) if 
 once roufed into actiou, would loon add new examples to the catalogue of do- 
 meftic traitors, and make them as execrable, as they are now impotent. 
 
 We fay again that the People of this State, are rapidly awakening to a du« 
 fenfe of their true interefts, and that no man in it dare publicly to avoiv a ivijb to 
 dijf:ver tbe union — nor will all the fubtleties, that have been fo induftrioufly prac- 
 tifed to renew a little provincial prejudice, againft the filter State of Virginia, 
 ferve any oiher purpofe, but that «f expofing the perpetrators to general detef- 
 tation, when the point is rightly underftood. 
 
 It is no lefs honorable, to the character of this nation, than true, that in that 
 arduous ftruggle for liberty and independence, which marked the American 
 revolution, there never was the leaft difagreement : there never was even a 
 fympton of jealoufy among the ftates, compoling the Original Confederat 
 noN. Not, that the Anti-revolutionary faction, vulgarly called the Tory Party , 
 
8 4 
 
 THE HAMILTQMIAD, 
 
 Monarcliic Raven ! — Caufe, without effect ; 
 Like prophet Brothers, he's outliv'd his feci — 
 Laid up in ord'nary, behold his Trunk, 
 Gnaw'd byCare's worms, tho' caulk'd with£/7///Z>junk. 
 His topmaft flruck — His timbers all befpoke — 
 His cable fnortcn'd, and his anchor broke : 
 Like Attic portals, by the Gazer fcen, 
 His ruin merely proving he has been ! — 
 
 When Sandy fhiver'd him, ambition fcowl'd ; 
 Folly was jubilant and Trcafon howl'd : 
 Then mammoth Jefferson rofc up to pow'r : 
 Truth rear'd her crelr, and Schifm moan'd our hour ! 
 Our Faction's awe-ftruck — Guilt has done his part : 
 Th' arterial blood is banifh'd from the heart, 
 
 bribed by foreign gold ; feduced by foreign influence, or corrupted by the vain, 
 illulory hope, of advancing their private fortunes ou the ruin of their country; 
 did nuc practice every ainiiee, without regard to truth, rcalon, or decency, to 
 W^k'en the (brings of oppg&tien to the claims of the Britilli Government, and 
 to IulFv)catc, in its cradle, the herculean infant of Liberty j which even then, 
 alone nnd unprotected in the aho -ruing conflict, cither attracted the Dotice, or 
 excited the admiration, of the wyfe and enlightened in every part of Europe ! 
 
 The idea of rival or contending interefts between the Gri:a 1 and the Little 
 States, had not then an exigence : or if, by chance fome wretched, mean and 
 hypocritical milcreant, but hchtatingly touched this ltring of national dilcord, 
 his name was given to the winds of heaven, to be wafted in infamy through 
 every part of the union — Not Galloiva^ — nor Ilul.li/ifc/;, not the verieft Sycophant 
 of Britilh power, had then ventured to infift upon this topic, fo fertile of the 
 plagues of faction, and of anarchy ; provided it could have obtained a refidcnce 
 in the American mind. The difcovery of this imaginary evil was referved for 
 a more tranquil and a more happy period — It is Mr. Tracy of Connecticut, 
 and a few benighted followers of this prophet of Sedition, who, in the fulnefs of 
 political necromancy, have had the unrivalled glory of conjuring from the 
 £ulph of defpair, this horrid demon of the imagination. — In the progrefs of the 
 Revolution, Delaware repoSed in fecurity, by the fide of Pennfylvania ; Rbbdc- 
 JJlan4 was cherifhed by J\-Lf/J'.ul)if,t:s,a.ud the J^frys, after being pillaged by the 
 BritiSh. mercenaries, found relief in her more populous and effective neighbours 
 — Local boundaries have been fixed by accident, and are now confecrated by 
 the force of time and habit : and it is only on the nation's will and power : 
 and on the natural and constitutional rights and interests, of the States, and 
 of the individuals who compofe them, that the peace and profperity, of this rif- 
 iug Republic, is built and eStabliShed as on a rock ! — Away then with this mis- 
 erable pretence : Away then with this infulting distinction of the Great and 
 Little States, having discordant or even varying interefts : — The Sovereign- 
 ty of each is equally and inviolably guarded aeajnfs injury or dimiiiution ; end 
 What is good for one is good fer ail, 
 
THE HA MILT ONI AD. 
 
 The G — w — ds weep and doze, but cannot think : 
 And Tim, his Ilolinefs, is loft in drink: 
 
 Bofton, that royal hot-bed of the States, 
 Now links in grief — now menaces the Fates : 
 Ot — s, mellifluous Ot — s, cannot pleaie : 
 His filves accents only charm the Breeze : 
 The flood is paft, that fed our moon-drawn tide, 
 And Sorrow's ebb, reduces mortal pride. 
 Regard our minions perifhing by fcores ; 
 The Party's onals rot on Freedom's (hpfes ! 
 
 The gentle G — rn— r, in tears came next, 
 Becloath'.d in fables, fuiky, fad and vext, 
 Eager to prattle — A meek, kindly foul j 
 In his right hand he nouriuYd forth a fcroli : 
 
 This project of clTacing the.befr. and wifeft provifions of the ConfHtution, Is a 
 new thing, that was engendered, in fecret, and caH fnftantaneoufly upon our 
 aftonillicd fenfes ! — It burft upon us, like a black, terrific cloud, at noon day, 
 obtruding upon the beautiful funfhine, and clear atnuifphere, furcharged with 
 all the elehientsof deftrucYion. — A Guv Fawkes was found to blow ns into the 
 air, with all the fettled orders of the State : our peace and union and glory, our 
 funds and credit, both public and private : our conliflency, our character, our 
 laws, our fecurity, and our love for each other, were to be facrificed in this novel 
 explolion ! for cut of this dreadful project every evil might arife, but certainly, 
 no benefit, either to the Union, the particular States, or the individual Citizens ? 
 
 Let us try the public mind, upon the chord of intereft. — There are 14,000 
 public creditors, and 500b of ihofe belong to MafTachufctts, which owns more 
 of the public debt, than Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, N. Carolina, S.Carolina. 
 Georgia, TenneiTee, Kentucky, Ohio and Mifiifippi ! — Should this have no in- 
 fluence upon the wife and independent people of this province ? — In the event 
 of a public commotion, every State nuift take care of its own creditors, living 
 tvithin its jurifdidlion. — In regard to numbers, they run thus: Virginia and 
 Kentucky contain 1 ,! 00,000 perfons, 700,000, of which are white. — MaiTachu- 
 fetts and Maine contain only .575,000. — Pcnnfylvania contains upwards of 
 600,000 perfons — and the Constitutions, of 16 out of 17 States duly recognize 
 the antient diftindtion of Freemen and Strvi : conhdering fueh a recognition, as 
 indifpenlably neceffary to the tranquillity,prefcrvation and ftrength of the whole 
 Federal Union, whofe fundamental principle of government, is dependent on 
 the ratio of representation and taxation by numbers ; which is the key Jlmeof the 
 Conjlitution. 
 
 It is not a geographical line, or territorial boundary i — It is not a circum- 
 ftance refting on thib or that point of the compafs — It is not a diffimilitude of lit- 
 tle interefb among the diftant, but irreproachable members of the great political 
 family — It is not the necromantic efiicacy of a few miferable terms of eabalifHc 
 origin — It is not the merely local diftindlion of fouthern or northern ftates, or 
 
«TIIE II AMI L TON I A li. 
 
 In imitation of tne Confcript Sires ; 
 
 Feeling their foppery, but not their fires ; 
 
 A iign of eloquence, thus Art opines, 
 
 The inarticulate muft deal in figh$ : 
 
 Making the obfequies of Death a joke, 
 
 (Ah ! had he thought, as often as he /poke) 
 
 With air facetious neutraliz'd the gloom, 
 
 A very Petit malt re at the tomb ! 
 
 Smirk'd, iigh'd and fnivelPd to his Royal Clan, 
 
 Took his rappee, then hemm'd, and thus began. 
 
 Decking his verbiage in tinfel charms, 
 
 While Syntax frown'd in anger and in arms : — 
 
 " Go, Alex, mid the fpirits of the brave, 
 
 While royal tears, embalm your royal grave : 
 
 the deadly attempt to cxafperate Virginia againft Maffachufetts — It is not by 
 any management of intrigue or difaG'eCtion to the peace, increafing profperity 
 and happy establishments of the nation, among a remnant of difappointcd pious 
 men, and their infatuated partisans tuat can »k shall convulse the solid 
 fAbKic or XBl UNION! 
 
 Louisiana. 
 
 The malignant, hut abfurd manner, in which the Anglo-Federal Faction, have 
 queftioned the policy of pollening Louiftania, is the moft damning proof of their 
 inveteracy to our civil and religious liberties, and of their Servile devotion to the 
 views of the Britilh Government that has occurred : firlt, they laboured hard 
 to make it the fource of a foreign war, but disappointed in that mad defire, they 
 attempted to invalidate the authority of France in regard to its difpofal ; but as 
 quiet pollellion was admitted by the official representatives of Spain, as well as 
 France, they groaned withdifmay, until the temporary provifions for its regu- 
 lation under the American fupremacy, were Submitted to the approbation of 
 the Congrefs ; then, with a malignant ardor, they brought every article to the 
 rack of fophiftry, and by infifting loudly, on the fallacy of means that had nev- 
 er been tried, ungeneroully expected to excite murmurs agaiuft the beSi: poflible 
 mode, which human fagacity could cheriSh, for the fafe arrangement of fuch 
 chaotic elements of grandeur. — What additional advantages, would thefe ene- 
 mies to our Government defire, for the people of Louiiiana ? they have equal 
 laws, freedom of religious worfhip, the trial by jury, the benefit of the Habeas 
 C*rpus, and every immunity that can be enjoyed by men who are taking a pro- 
 bationary Station in the grades of Liberty, to qualify them for a fuller enjoy- 
 ment of its felicities — The force of habit, is wonderfully powerful, and men, 
 may be found (even in the Eaftern States) who would rather do homage to a 
 Tyrant, for the privilege to breathe ; in order, that they might tyrannize over 
 their band of valTals ; than fland erect, as men on a bafis of comparative equality, 
 tv-ith the raafs of human, kind — As tins is an unquestionable, though a melanchc- 
 
THE HAMILTONIAD, ?J 
 
 Tulip of Federalifm — germ of Pride ; 
 
 By Britain bolfter'd, and to Grace allied ; 
 
 Inform me, by next poft (to eafe my woe) 
 
 If there's an Ariftocracy below !— 
 
 Don't peep above thy bourrf, my fplendid friend, 
 
 New England's gone — our treafon's at an end : 
 
 Nor Bank-civilities — nor Englilh gold, 
 
 Could bribe the Yankeys — They will not be fold : 
 
 The Prieft is muzzled and the Dolt's in dread : 
 
 The Monk is mute, and Fisher's gone to bed ! 
 
 E'en hacknied C — le — n's bread pumps up a figh : 
 
 And begs forgivenefs as he pens the lie ! 
 
 Like foul Arachne, favage, lean and dire, 
 Coils Anglo-D — nn — e, pregnant with his ire : 
 
 ly fact, what could the Congreflional Power do, under fuch extraordinary want?, 
 but go forwards ; with a cautious, but increahng confidence ; and, as the coaflr 
 has never been navigated by Freedom, to throw the lead, as they advance toward* 
 legislative perfection. 
 
 In beftowing civil and religious liberty upon a people, who have not been ac-' 
 cufromed to their enjoyment, we can fcarcely exercife too much circumfpection ; 
 like perfons who have been enfeebled by along courfe of difeafe, it is expedient 
 that we fhould regulate our cordials and anodynes by the appearances of con- 
 valefcence, and not endanger the vital principle, by an influx of viands too fud- 
 denly adminiftered. — The friends of the executive authority muft perceive that 
 they are placed in a fituation of unprecedented refponfibility ; to emancipate the 
 inhabitants of a province, who have been long enllaved by the harfh inftitutes 
 of prelcriptive force, and that in the execution of this godlike endeavour, much 
 peril may arife, as refultingfrom the prejudices of cuftom, and much more from, 
 a domeftic oppofition, ifluing from villany, in the knaviih, and from misconcep- 
 tion, in the unwife. 
 
 Sir Wm„ Blackstone, in his Commentaries on the Laws of England, makes 
 the rights of perfons, to confift, principally, " in the enjoyment of perfonal Se- 
 curity, of perfonal- liberty, and of private property : fo long as thefe remain in- 
 violate," continues this legal fage, "the fubie.ct is perfectly free: for every fpeeies- 
 of compulfive tyranny and oppreffion mutt act in oppofition to one or other of 
 thefe rights, having no other object upon which it can peffibly be employed."" 
 
 Tlie conditional frailty of men, comprifes three States ; Innocence, fufpicion 
 and guilt : In innocence, he is to be protected ; in fufpicion, he is to be circum- 
 fcribed ; and in guilt, he is to be punifhed, with a reference to mercy — From at 
 good government two effentia! points are required : Privileges to be maintain- 
 ed, and a power comraenfurate with that expected fupport — That being the 
 relative pofition of the ruler and the community, it is the duty of all men, who 
 mean well to their fellow citizens, to take all the bearings, obligations and in- 
 fcrmitie* of our nature, within the fcale of their understanding, before they 
 
THE If AMI LT ON IAD* 
 
 Th' impoifon'd web in which lie fpitfl and crawls, 
 Extends from Delaware to James's vails : 
 Whence Pitt electrifies his Reptile's blcod, 
 And gives him impetus to murder good ! 
 Transfufes venom crofsnhe troublous deep, 
 "While all the Mufes ftare, and wond'ring weep : 
 "Why am I thus ? the fnivellmg SariUihg cries : 
 (Ah why ! Piriiaffuf' echo, fhrill replies :) 
 Thofe Gods are lalfc in w hom I put ray truft ; 
 P — ck — g's craz'd, and HisULZttM is duft : 
 J — y's in his fecond childhood — R — ss is nought : 
 And Ch — 3e is ^Ttftrng m obtruiive thought : 
 I've made the inilitutes of Right a jell : 
 I've itrew 'd vile hvces o'er my natal neft : 
 
 prefumc to paf> judgment upon matters cf luch high moment to the world—* 
 The truth is, that the whole proceeding ot the Executive Authority, relative to 
 L'j:/>/Ltv.i, is the mod: glorious circumftance of Mr. Jefterfon's glorious \w: : — It 
 was conceived in wifdom, was organized by benevolence, and will be fufLincd 
 by happinefs and honor. 
 
 "What are the boundaries of Touifiana," as acquired by the United Sates 
 from France, by the late treaty of eeffion ? This point, independent of any con- 
 nection it may have with the ratification of the convention, is extremely impor- 
 tant. In order to exhibit this view the more diftincHy, it is necelVary to go back 
 to an early period of the colonization of Touiliana. 
 
 In the year 1673, M. M. Joliet, and Marquette, two French Canadians, ex- 
 cited bv the information of the Indians, explored and (truck the Miihlhppi, 
 which they defcended to the Arkanias. Their reprefentations awakened the 
 curiohty of M.de la Sale, who, in the year 1 6SO, under the permilhon of the 
 French government, explored the Muiiilippi. On the lower part of the Illinois 
 he garrifoned a fort called Crcvccour ; and he fent father Hennepin down the 
 Milhffippi, until he reached the ocean. In 1682, M. la Sale, and M. Jonti, 
 went down the river with iixty men, named the country Louihana, built a fort 
 in the Chickafaw territory, 60 leagues below the Ohio, by the name of Prud- 
 homme. M. la Sale then returned to France. TheFrench government, entering 
 with ardour, into his icheme of forming lettlements along the St. JLawrence and 
 Millithppi, from ieatofea, placed under his direftion four veilels, with men and 
 ftores. He failed in 1 oSl ; but miffing the mouth of the Mifliffippi, landed on 
 the 18th of February, in the Eay of St. Bernard. Here he made two fucceffive 
 eitablifhments. 
 
 About this time the Chevalier Tontito,defcended the mouth of the MiffifGp- 
 pi, and on afcending the river formed a permanent lettlement on the Arkanfas. 
 Not long after this period feveral ether fmall lettlements were made by en- 
 terpriiing Frenchmen. 
 
 In 16*89 war commenced between France and Spain, which lafted till 1697, 
 during which period nothing appeared to have been done by France to fuccour 
 
THE HA MILTON IAD. 
 
 SQ- 
 
 IVe flain'd that honor which upheld my youth ; 
 Fve varnifh'd Sophiftry and flaughter'd Truth. 
 He had faid more.. ..but Reafon in affright, 
 CalPd Shame to fweep him in eternal night ! 
 Oblivion bring thy thickeft blanket here : 
 Send Ocean's pail to catch this gufhing tear : 
 Give me the Doldrums — marry me to Strife : 
 Abridge my pangs and antedate my life : 
 Our Faction once, amaz'd the fenfe of man, 
 Like proud Palmyra, ere its woes began. 
 What are we now ? The intimates of Scorn, 
 Mere dull and afhes, trodden and forlorn ! 
 How carelefs mortals feud from day to day, 
 Nearing their ruin — miferably gay : 
 
 her colony. In 1648, M. D'Iberville was difpatched as governour. He eftala- 
 lilhedtwo fettlements, one at Ifle Maflacre, which he called Hie Dauphin, and 
 the other at Mobile. It may be proper to obferve that during the war, in 1 796, 
 Spain had taken poft at Penfacola. 
 
 from thefe fadfcs it follows that France enjoyed the actual and undifturbed 
 rjoiTeffion of the coaft from the Mobile to the Bay of St. Bernard, and from the 
 mouth of the Mifhflippi to the Illinois, which, together with other territory, 
 comprifes what is now called Weft Florida, but which then, together with the 
 country as far as Canada, went by the common name of Louifiana. 
 
 In this condition things ftood, when Louis XIV. by letters patent, on the 14th 
 Sept. 1712, granted to M. Crozat, the exclufive commerce of this country for 
 fifteen years. This document is important, as it contains the firft formal recog- 
 nition of the extent of the French proflefhons. The extracts in point, are as 
 follows : 
 
 " Louis by the Grace of God King of France and Navarre : To all who fliall 
 fee thefe Letters, Greeting. The care we have always had to procure the wel- 
 fare and advantage Of our fubjedts have induced us, notwithftanding the almoft 
 continual wars which we have been obliged to fappoft from the beginning of 
 our reign, to feek for all poilible opportunities of extending and enlarging the 
 trade of our American colonies, ive did in the year 1683 give our .rdcrs to undertake 
 a difcovery of the countries and lands which are htuated in the northern part 
 of America between New France and New Mexico. And the Sieur de la Sale,- 
 to whom we committed that enterprife, having had fuccefs enough to confirm 
 a belief that a communicution might be fttltd from New France tc tSe Gulf of Mexico by 
 means of large rivers ; this obliged us immediately after the peace of Ryfwick to- 
 give orders for the eftablifhing a colony there, and maintaining a garri'fon, ivhich 
 has kept aid preferred the poJfe(fion,\we had taken in the very year J 633 of the lands* 
 coafts and iflands which are fituated in the gulph of Mexico, hetiveen Carolina oh 
 the Eij?,and Old and Neiv M:xico on the Wejl. But a new war haviug broke out 
 in Europe lhortly after, there was no pollibility, till now, of reaping from that 
 new colony the advantages that might have been expected from theiitee, becauie 
 
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 THE HA MIL TON I AD. 
 
 Swilling pcftif'rous draughts from Circe's cup 
 
 Sucking, Jikc amber, wofthlcfs gew-gaws up — 
 
 Growing more vi'c, by each fuccccding feat — 
 
 Strap me to Neptune's car and bathe me fwcet ; 
 
 Why are we heard, but voluble in groans ? ^ 
 
 Mad in our deed — The vitiis in our bones — L 
 
 The Devil take Dcucalkn and hU (tones. J 
 
 Then J — y' began, in moralizing {trains, 
 
 And thus pourtray'd the circle of his pains : 
 
 With retrofpeclive horror, wild and hoc, 
 
 He fpit enigma*, thick as Preble's mot. 
 
 Pride warms that bread, which Reafon mould have 
 cool'd : 
 
 I ruPd a State, but now alas, am rul'd : 
 
 the private men, who are <~ mcerned in the fea trade, were all under engagements 
 with other colonies which they have been obliged to follow : And WHEREAS 
 upon information wc have received concerning the difpofition and fituation of 
 
 the faid coutitriti iniKU/i at t >rr / ~/.-t L\ the name of tht Province of Lovifiana, we are of 
 opinion that there may be cftablifhed therein a confiderable commerce, fo much 
 the more advantageous to our kingdom in that there has hitherto been a nccefhty 
 of fetching from foreigners the great eft part of the commodities which may be 
 brought from thence, and b^cauXe in exchange thereof we need carry thither 
 nothing but the commodities of the growth and manufacture of our kingdom ; 
 we have refolved to grant the commerce of the country of Louifiana to the Sieur 
 Anthony Crozat, our councellor, Secretary of the Houfehold, Crow n and Reve- 
 nue, to whom we entrufc the execution of this project. We are the more readi- 
 ly inclined hereunto, becaufe his zeal and the lingular knowledge he has acquired 
 in maritime commerce encourage us to hope for as good fuccefs as he has hither- 
 to had in the divers and fundry enterprises he has gone upon, and which have 
 procured to our kingdom great quantities of gold and filver in fuch conjunctures 
 as have rendered them very welcome to us. 
 
 <k For theie reafons being defirous to fhow our favour to him, and to regu- 
 late the conditions upon which we mean to grant him the faid commerce after 
 having deliberated this affair in our Council, of our certain knowledge, full 
 power and, Royal authority, We by thefe Prefents, ligned by our hand, have ap- 
 pointed and do appoint the faid Sieur Crozat, folely to carry on a trade in all 
 the lands poiTeiTed by us, and bounded by New Mexico, and by the lands of the 
 Englifh Carolina, all the eftcblfcments, ports., havens, rivers, and principally the port 
 and haven of the IJle Dauphin, heretofore IWaffacre : the river St. JLczvis, 
 heretofore called JMiffiffippi, font the edge of the fea as far as the Illinois, together 
 ivith the river of Si. Philip, heretofore called the AI ] Jfouries, and St. "Jerome, here- 
 tofore called Ovabache, ivith all the countries, territories, lakes ivithin land, and tht 
 rivers which fall direSlly or iidireclly into the part of the river St. Leivis. 
 
 « The ARTICLES— lft — Our pleafure is, that all the aforefaid lands, coun- 
 try, (breams, rivers and iflands, be and remain comprifed under the name cf tb* 
 
THE HAMILTON IAD. 
 
 9* 
 
 The Bible, which I read (a long time paft) 
 
 Makes the laft fir ft, and then the firft, makes laft : 
 
 •That; which was, what is it ? fhew, 
 
 That which it was, it is not now ! 
 
 To be what 'tis, is not to be, you fee : 
 
 That which is net, mall yet a being be ! 
 
 All Nature's in a dance, at Ruin's rout, 
 
 Where fome cut in the jig, while fome — cut out ! 
 
 Should thefe fait drops roll down my check, by fcores 
 
 Who's breath'd in Courts— Who's op'd St. James' 
 doors, 
 
 And fupp'd with Honorable — fons of w s ? 
 
 Whom G renville took fo often by the fift : 
 Who Kings have prais'd and Countelfes have kift ? 
 
 * A free rendering of the Latin motto, to Gen. Hamiiion's character. 
 
 government of Lovijianj, which fhall be dependent upon the general government 
 of New France, to which it is fubordinate : and further that all the lands which 
 we polfefs from the Illinois be united, fo far as occafion require to the general 
 government of New France, and become part thereof, referring, however to 
 ourfelves the liberty of enlarging as we fhall think fit the extent of the govern- 
 ment of the faid country of Louifiana." 
 
 This is a folemn declaration that the waters running direcStly or indiredlry 
 into the Miihffippi, and the country they embrace, conftitufed the province of 
 Louifiana. Within thefe limits France continued without difturbance to extend 
 her fettlements till the year J 763. During this period were formed the treaties 
 of Ryfwickin 1697, of Utrecht in 1713, and of Raftadt in 1714, to which Spain 
 was a party, and which in none of their provifions invalidate the rights of 
 France. 
 
 In 1718, the French took Penfacola from Spain, to whom it was reftored at 
 the peace of 1719 ; fince which thePerdido, between Mobile and Penfacola, has 
 been the acknowledged boundary between LouifiaHa and Florida. 
 
 The boundaries of Louifiana, then as held by France, were the eoaft and 
 iflands from the Perdido to the Rio Norte ; up that river to its fource ; thence 
 to the highlands and round the fources of the Mincuri and Milfiffippi, and 
 their waters to the Alleghanv mountains, along thofe mountains ar.d the high 
 lands furroundmg the waters of the Mobile to the head of the Perdido, and" 
 down that river to the ocean. 
 
 There was, it is true, a collifion between thefe claims and thofc of the Englifh 
 colonies, whole charters extended from fea to fea ; but thefe interfering claims 
 were adjufted by the treaty of Paris of 1763 ; by which the Miffifiippi and I- 
 herville were made the limits of the Englifh poffeffions on the Eaft, and Louifia- 
 na on the Weft. 
 
 Thus far then, that is to the year 1763, there is no doubt that what is now 
 denominated Weft Florida, was a part of Louifiana. 
 To the war which commenced between France and England in 1755, Spain 
 
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 THE IIAMILTONlAD. 
 
 Who fignjd a cov'nant that had ne'er been read, 
 And fold our rights to prove myfelf — well-bred. — j 
 
 There's L s, chair'd, our point of gubernation : 
 
 And Liberty has nail'd him to the itation : 
 For Delicacy's fhge he ne'er was book'd — 
 Like a {hip's elbow, knotty, hard and crook'd, 
 lie binds the flimfy fcantlings by his toughnefs ; 
 And draws his vulgar value, from his roughnefs : 
 "While I, the pink of kindnefs, roam, at large, 
 Lie banquets daily at the public charge ! — 
 My heart gets lefs and lefs — my ills increafe : 
 Coerce my Torments — Bid my Sorrows ceafe : 
 Transform me into hofc, to fmokc and rot 
 Round rancid feet, when Summer's funs arc hot ; 
 
 jrr 1 7G2 became a party on the fide of France. England having been fo fuccefsfui 
 as to conquer a confidcrablc portion of the Ifland of Cuba from Spain negotia- 
 tions were entered into for a peace. In thefe negotiations Great-Britain required 
 Florida and that part of Louiliana between the Iberville and the Perdido, in ex- 
 change for Cuba. To enable Spain to offer thefe as an equivalent, France, by a 
 fecret treaty dated November 3, 1 762 (the fame day on which the preliminary 
 treaty was ligned) confented to cede to Spain all Louiliana. Ey the definitive 
 treaty, figned on the 10th February, 17G3, France ceded to England all Louifi- 
 ana eaft of the MilfifDppi, except the bland of New-Orleans ; which with the re- 
 mainder of the province flic ceded to Spain. The ceflion to F.ngland, although 
 formally on the part of France (for the treaty between France and Spain was ftill 
 fecret) was fuljlantially made by Spain, who had become the real proprietor of 
 all Louiliana. 
 
 England immediately divided her newly acquired pofTefrions into two diftin<5l 
 governments ; to one the gave the name of WlJI Florida, which embraced the 
 tract weft of the Apalachicola ; and to the other, embracing the refidue of her 
 pofTellions, fhegave that of Eaft Florida. This is the firft that we hear of Wtfc 
 J'lonc/a, '^ being a name given by Great-Eritain to a fubdivifion of her territory. 
 
 At the clofe ot the American war in 1783, Great-Britain reftored to Spain 
 Florida, and the country eaft of the Iberville. Spain, on taking pofreflion, con- 
 tinued, with fome modification, the Engliih arrangements, placing, however, 
 "Weft Florida under the jurifdi&ion of the governour of Louiliana, who refided 
 at New-Orlear.s ; and fince that time this territory, as well in publick inftru- 
 inents, as in general conversation, has gone by the names of Louiliana or Weft 
 Florida, fometimes the one and fometimes the other name being ufed. 
 
 On the lft of October, 1800, by the treaty of St. Udefonfo, Spain receded to 
 France the " colony or province of Louiliana, with the fame extent that it ac- 
 tually has in the hands of Spain — that it had when France pofTelTed it — and 
 fuch as it ought to be after the treaties palled fubfequently between Spain and 
 other ftates." 
 
 On the 30th of April 1803, France ceded to the United States all the tcrrit :ry 
 V/hich fhe had thus acquired from Spain. 
 
' THE KAMILTONIAD. 
 
 93 
 
 Fix me, like Turkies, to fome ice-bound fpot, 
 
 That Dolts may moot me, for fix cents a lliot ; 
 
 Make me a rudder, in the eaftern feas, 
 
 For Lubber's paws, to mifdirecl and teaze : 
 
 My hour-glafs lags — My occupation's gone : 
 
 What once was day, is now a dies non ! 
 
 Hear Ell — t chatter, like a peevifii Pie ; 
 
 Though all his argument is, I, I, I ! 
 
 He feems t infinuate good as in defpite, 
 
 A Pye-bald Patriot, neither black nor white ! 
 
 Hark ! 'tis the recreant Monk — " Plagues mark 
 that hour, 
 
 When I was tainted with a luft of pow'r : 
 Tie Liberty upon the rack of Wrath — 
 Go deluge Jefferson, with Fed'ral froth — 
 
 Thefeare the facts of which a deciiion is to be made whether the eeffion hy 
 France to the United States does, or does not embrace that portion of country- 
 called Weft Florida » 
 
 In thejitji place Spain ftipulates to recede Louifiana ivith the fame extent that it 
 atlually has [in 1800] in the hands of Spain. To determine the import of this 
 ftipulation it is only nereflary to afcertain the extent of country embraced by 
 the term Latitfiand\ It has been clearly lhown that previous to the ceiTion of 
 France to Spain, Louifiana extended to the Perdido. Had any thing occurred 
 previoufly to the date of the treaty of St. Ildefonfo, to contract its limits ? If 
 nothing 1 had occurred, the limits muft be confidered as unaltered. That por- 
 tion of territory, ceded in 1763 to Great-Britain, was receded to Spain in 1783, 
 with the new name of Weft Florida, given by England. Reftored to Spain, al- 
 though this name was not formally dilmifted, the territory which it covers, was 
 re-annexed to the government of Louifiana, and the old arrangements, previous 
 to its celfion to England re-inftated. By thefe arrangements Louifiana, as to its 
 extent, was replaced in the fame lituatiou it occupied previous to the ceflion of 
 a part of it to Great-Britain, which was the lame with that it held when pof- 
 lefled by France under whofe arrangements Weft Florida formed a part of it. 
 
 But as if folicitous to remove all ambiguity, the treaty proceeds to ftipulate, in 
 the ficonJ place that Louifiana Jhall be ceded in the fame extent it bad ivhen France 
 foff-Jpd it (that is, previoully to the year 17G3). Now the fact is that France 
 never poflefied this province, with any extent which did not include the 
 Englifh province of Weft Florida — It may have occurred to the framers of the 
 treaty of St. Ildefonfo, that doubts might arife as to the meaning of the term 
 " the province of Louifiana," after the eeffion of a part of it to Great Britain, 
 and its receffion to Spain. Hence the propriety of diffipating all fuch doubts, 
 by declaring that the new eeffion fhould be in the fame extent it had ivhen France 
 fojf'jjed it. This effectually fet afide all regard to the regulations of England. 
 Suppofing, then, the frfl ftipulation to be of doubtful import, the fecond, fo plain 
 as not to admit of any other conftruclion, comes in to remove all doubts. For it 
 
5?4 
 
 THE II A M I L T ON I A D 
 
 Each cyc-ball now is ftarting from its fphcrc : 
 " Holy Saint Francis, what a change is here." 
 Now all's hypocrify ! — 'Tis Rudcnefs braves, 
 And morals fuffer moft from pious knaves : 
 Who is good-naturd in his focial deeds ? 
 Not him who fattens, but the Dolt who bleeds ! 
 Men rail at duels, with felf-faving fnccrs, 
 And wrap their cowardice in chriftian fears ! 
 
 TV uncreftcd P — cx — v, marvellous and wan, g 
 In elegiac tone his ills began, C 
 Like the fad accents of a dying fwan ! J 
 How man, in goodncfs, Jhould his time employ — 
 How frail's the tenure of a Faction's joy 1 — 
 Not twenty moons ago our Party's chain, 
 Ran, link in link, from Georgia into Maine : 
 
 is an efbbiifhed principle of conftxuetion, that where there are two paflagCT 
 trailing- to the fame end, one of which is doubtful, and the other clear, the lafc 
 fhall preponderate. The denial of this conftrudlion to the (tipulation will be 
 tantamount to faving that it fhall have no meaning at all,\vhich in fo folemn an 
 infh timent as a treaty, and on lo important an occalion as the transfer of terri- 
 tory, is altogether madmifOble. 
 
 In the thin! place it is JiipiiLitcil that the eejjlon Jball L: fuch as it ought to be after 
 the ttt\itift pajjiiifubjcquently between Spain and other Jiates—t\v3X is, fubfequently to the 
 celhon by France, which was in the year 1762. Now, fubfequently to this 
 was formed the treaty of 179.5 between Spain and the United States, by which 
 the former confirmed to the latter a degree of latitude (from 32 to SI degrees) 
 which fhe had alleged to be a part of Louifiana unceded to France, and con- 
 sequently belonging to her. 
 
 According to thefe ftipulations, taken together, Spain ceded Louifiana to 
 France exactly as France pofTefTedit previous to the year 1763, with the only 
 exception of a refervation of the rights acknowledged by Spain to attach to the 
 United States, and in this precife fhape France thus pofleffed of Louifiana, has 
 ceded it to the United States. If the fa<fh> we have ftated, and the inferences 
 deduced from them be correal, it follows that the Perdido is the boundary of 
 X-ouiJiana, and confequently that Weft Florida is a part of the ceflion to the 
 United States. — Nat. Intel. 
 
 In the fecond inauguration ef Mr. Jefferson, we have full caufe for National 
 Gladnefs. It will form a great and confoling aera, when in times unborn, the 
 friends of virtue fhall recur to this event, as bearing equal honor to the difcern- 
 ment of the people and the integrity of their Firft Magiftrate. Such concur- 
 ring emanations of popular good fenfe and moral gratitude, we are confident 
 in affirming, have never been recorded in hiftory. Among fuch men, tho refi- 
 dence of Liberty may be fecure ; their deep knowledge of right will prefcrve 
 
THE HAMILTONIAD. 
 
 While Hamilton, with necromancy warm, 
 Iflued from central York, the apt alarm ; 
 To freight, with royal fpells, our iron charm. 
 Then in big bulk, we flounder'd, at our eafe, 
 As the Leviathan deforms the leas ; 
 In one vaft compact body, firm we lay, 
 Like icy maffes in the frozen bay ; 
 Impeding the free commerce of the land, 
 Condens'd, though hideous — terrible, though grand i 
 At length the radiant force of Virtue gleam'd, 
 Darted her fires and thaw'd us, as fhe beam'd : 
 Till a deep cram, like Ruin's mandate rofe, 
 Marking our dhTolution, and our woes ; 
 The tide of Reafon undermin'd our ftate, 
 Till its full influence had fix'd our fate : 
 
 her from the machinations of declared foes, and their temperance will guard 
 her from the fatal excefles of cnthufiafm. 
 
 In the wide rejoicings on that proud event, we connect the dangers that we 
 have part with the felicities that we embrace. In returning thanks to heaven 
 for its providential interpolition in our favor, by refcuing us from the chain* 
 of an ariftocratic, unnatural and cruel faction, and thereby reftoring our dignity 
 as a people, we cannot refrain from mingling our tears with our confolation. 
 .Like fea-beaten mariners who have efcaped total deftruction, while we kifs the 
 land that is firm in our fupport, we cannot take a retrofpective view of the 
 fragments of the wreck without horror ! 
 
 It hath been lamentably aflerted, by a celebrated philofopher of the old 
 world, (Charron) that there is no reward or honor affigned unto thofe who 
 know how to encreafe or preferve human nature : all honors, greatnefs, riches, 
 dignities, empires, triumphs and trophies, are appointed for thofe only, who 
 know how to afflict, trouble or deftroy it. And this woeful aflertion is cor- 
 rect, fo far as regards the ruling propensities of every part of the globe but 
 this Angularly happy nation. It is here, and here alone, where reafon and 
 juftice feem to have their due eftablifhment. In Britain you fee a fplendid 
 court, furrounding a monarch, whole reftricted intellect forms no impediment 
 to his beheft in governing. Around this royal inftance of infirmity, the mean, 
 but haughty fycophants revolve, like fatellites of 'power : but, as this local gran- 
 deur is inhumanly impreffive, fo the confequence upon the community is inhu- 
 man penury. The many crouch and ihudder before the few, and even thofe 
 gallant fpirits are ftarved into unconditional fubmilhon to privileged villany 
 and partial laws, who have difcernment to afcertain the extent of their wretch- 
 ednefs ! — We thank the Supreme Being, that our political ftate is far otherwife. 
 In this mild but mighty confederation of Sifter States, the people can exprefs 
 their fovereign will towards their magiftrates ; their eternal right to rule is inter- 
 woven with their elective franclufes 5 their yarifprudence embraces the good of 
 
 1 
 
IIAMILTONIAD. 
 
 Our fragments, then upheav'd from Trcafon's mud,- 
 
 In wild dcfpondcncc floated down the flood ; 
 
 Unpatroniz'd and vagrant, torn from power ; 
 
 Melting tow'rds nothingnefs, in every liour ! 
 
 Oh mifcrable man ! thus vain to be ; 
 
 " Seeing, what I have fecn, feeing what I fee." 
 
 How ftreams of Mifery fliove us to Defpair : 
 
 My ills, lafl: week, would make a Stoic fvvcar — 
 
 Laft. Monday night, I loft my Steed ! 
 
 Virginia has no better breed : 
 
 Laft Tucfday night, I loft my Coufin : 
 
 Now Death has all — 1 had a dozen ! 
 
 Laft We'nfday night — I loft my Brother ! 
 
 Fate cannot fend me-^fuch another. 
 
 all conditions in fociety, and, -when a dereliction from the generous princrpJcs 
 of the Federal Compact is directly or indirectly difplayed, by their firit fcrvant, 
 they can openly calhier the traitor to their independence. The miniltry of 
 heaven are not infulted with a jure Jinino j and we fervently hope and trufk it 
 will be long, very long, before the minings of corruption, or any irregular mo- 
 tive of ambition, ariimg from the mediant /bungles of pride and wealth to be 
 predominant, ihall introduce that ariftocratic leaven in our fyftem, that mull 
 ultimately lead to the overthrow of our liberties, by depriving the Citiien of 
 his equal rights and natural importance. 
 
 There being an evident and declared dehre to eftablilh an order of nobility 
 ia the United States, by the Hamiitonian faction, and as that defire has not been 
 fo openly manifefted in any other portion of this Union, as New-England, where 
 the habitudes of lifefeem moll inimical to fuch an arrogant order, we fhall pre- 
 fent a flying ftatement of the origin of that domineering body among the Ro- 
 mans. The firft Patricians or Nobility of Rome, who were fublimated with that 
 title, were the children and defendants of the hundred lenators named by Ro- 
 mulus (Livius Titus, lib. i.) Lucius 13rutus. The Dictator, Cxfar, and the Em- 
 perors Auguftus and Claudius created others, upon the principle that the an- 
 ceftors of the parties had rendered vaft fervices to their country ; (fcuetonius & 
 Tacitus) but we find no recorded good of this bodv, corporateiy confidered, 
 although there are many inltances of their infolent folly. The puppy Clcdius, 
 who was of this order, had the prefumption to call Cicero, the father and con- 
 fervator of his country, the ciown of Arpinum : a fimilar affront was offered to 
 the great Coriolanus, (Ille arator Arpinas, et manipularis Jmperator) becaufe he 
 was a general extracted from the purfuits of hufhandry — and this is the lan- 
 guage of Pliny. The fame unworthy fpirit prevailed in the memorable " feign 
 of terror," when the advocates for an American nobility ftigmatized the illuf- 
 trious Franklin with the vile appellation of" Old Lightning Rod /" We had a 
 felf-created peerage here, who, in a tadpole ftate, were directing their mean ob- 
 loquies againfl the purcft, wifefl: and braveft defenders of our common right?-. 
 They huddled together into a paltry mafs, and drew a circle cf diftinction and 
 
THE HAMILTONIAD. 
 
 97 
 
 Laft Thurfday night, my Miftrefs died : 
 No Co. have I ! — I mould have cried : 
 Laft Friday night, I loft my credit ; 
 (The Britifli Fa&ion made and fed it) : 
 Laft Saturday, I loft my Friend, 
 My anguifti ne'er will have an end ! 
 Laft Sunday night, I loft my wits, 
 And now I weep and laugh, by fits 2 
 Can any have misfortunes worfe ? 
 I'm really forry for — my Horfc ! 
 
 Connecticut's high Pope, and royal guide, 
 With a fmear'd manual lying by his fide : 
 His keen eyes dimm'd with Sorrow's falted ftream, 
 Firft kick'd his wig, and then began his theme. 
 
 extinction around them, to feparate themfelves from the Farmer and Mechanic, 
 whom they unblufhingly avoided and reprobated as " the rabble" — after all 
 this folly and madnefs, they affect to wonder that they have loft the regards 
 and confidence of their fellow-citizens ! They affect to wonder that the people 
 clung to Mr. Jefferfon as their beft point of hope in the day of trouble ; that 
 they called him to the chair of flate with unprecedented acclamations and un- 
 animity, imploring the Creator to blefs his life, that he might confoiidate and 
 reunite their Shattered interefts, and fulfil the million of benevolence. Had not 
 the election of Mr. Jefferfon taken place thus timely, we lliouid even now have* 
 been trodden under the feet of a monied arifocracy, who would have had all the 
 jitrte and repulfion of excluding arrogance, without the accompaniment of thole 
 graces which can render diftinction tolerable. 
 
 , Tivas not i/jj fpaivn of fuch as ihefe, 
 
 That dyed, ivith Punic Hood, the bltJbing f as, 
 
 And fmote the fern ASqddes, 
 
 JBade even Albion s chofen legions yield, 
 
 And ivon the long difpuied IVoi Id in Saratoga's fJd / 
 
 Surrounded with hoftile cabals and haughty afpinng men, who are aiming to 
 Taife a monarchy upon the allies of the republic ; ftuuned with the din of cal- 
 umny, and fubjected to the impertinent queftions of follv, and the anger of del- 
 pair, Jefferfon lifts his radiant head above the ftorm with magnanimity, being 
 allured of the love and gratitude cf the moil difcerning people that were ever 
 leagued together in one political obligation. To fatisfy the defires cf all. wheal 
 thofe defires are fo contradictory, is not within the fphere bf moral agency ; 
 but he does ae much as the frailty of our nature will permit, by reforming to 
 virtue, in his intention, and to experience in his action. It has been obviou'lv hi* 
 endeavour to prove that natural fociety may be maintained by the fair principles 
 of natural juftice, and that mankind may be taught to regard virtue from the 
 beauty of its femblance and the holinefs of its qualities. It is for the peculiar 
 reputation as well as happineis of the New World, that fuch a fyftsw can b$ 
 
9? 
 
 THE HAMILTONIAt). 
 
 / 
 
 (Wiiilc abject Noah, dying by degrees, 
 
 Pesp'J through the outer key-hole, on his knees.) 
 
 Ere the Tiara ? mock'd me, in a vifion ; 
 
 Ere I became the point of men's dcriHon : 
 
 In artlefs minftrclfy I palVd my youth, 
 
 And fung of Canaan, and the age of Truth ; 
 
 When tribes in heaven and honor placM their tniffl ; 
 
 "When Priefts were tmor\ and even jews were juft I 
 
 In my adolefcencej like fomc coy maid, 
 
 Of man, but more of Flattery afraid ; 
 
 In deeds of innocence I pajfe*d my days ; 
 
 At Guilt I trembled, and I bluhYd at praife ; 
 
 In holy maidenhood I meekly grew, 
 
 Efchewihg Satan and his flaunting crew — 
 
 properly appreciafrd here, aj there is no other territory where the intelligence 
 of the people would be equal to the reception or enjoyment of fuch unexampled 
 ad van 1 . iges. The other focieries of the earth are little better tlian the Roman, 
 t\ tv. - were ; prj nAih, pro »:oriu'n : or of no account in the fcale of honor, retri- 
 bution or mercy. They may have their gradations of bondage, but tbey are all 
 in fetters, fubjevfk to the caprice of hereditary defpots, who impioufly pretend to 
 he confecratcd by the Almighty while they are mocking his benign attributes- 
 in nearly all their determination--. 
 
 It is apparently the difpufciou of Mr. JefFerfon, not to try how much can be 
 done with toleration, but how much the nature of what is good and equitable 
 m ly require : bis adminiftration feems rather an experiment of governing kind- 
 ness, proT$fig how far fociety can be virtuoufly confident, independent of co- 
 ercive barfhnefe ; than as a courfe of rule correfponding- with human wants, and 
 equal to the" retiltance of the word affections of the mind. Without largeffes 
 for the covetous ; without titles for the vain ; without commenfurate rigour 
 for the unworthy, and without fuftenance for the extraneoufly ambitious, he 
 holds thefcalcs of a nation's glory, and with a fteady hand ; leaving the un- 
 fheatbed fword to the guidance of jultiee who fuperintends his underftandihg, 
 and ratifies his declaration. Under his aufpicious government, we hear nothing 
 of mercenary armies ; fediticn bills to fupprefs examination ; intolerable taxa- 
 tion ; profcriptive fratutes ; cockade infignse ; tumult, malTacres, and all thofe 
 train of horrors with which the fearful Tyrant environs his feat of authority. 
 No ! confrious of his uufpotted integrity and patriotifm, he difdains to be 
 indebted for any huttrefs to his power, but what arifes from the knowledge 
 and regard of his fellow-citizens. Under fuch a beneficent magiftracy, where is 
 a more energetic call upon the forbearance of honeft men, in the luxuriance of 
 freedom which we noiv enjoy, than in other nations where the execution of a 
 mandate is prompt and horrible. Having the latitude to do much wrong with 
 impunity, would be a guarantee, with a noble mind, not to exercife the privi- 
 lege in wantonnefs. Every ordinance that has been iffued by Mr. JefFerfon, is. 
 •caroled by companion ; i: feems the refult of a conviction that we mult, (ere 
 
THE HAMILTON I AD. 
 
 9* 
 
 Ere luft of pow'r had made me lick and vain ; 
 Ere Pride had warp'd the timbers of my brain : 
 And led me, like a vig'rous ram, to be 
 Select and branded with a huge D. D. — 
 Where is our Royal Faction : — who cart tell ? 
 Maim'd M Contempt's incurable Hotel ! 
 The Deadly Seven, who held this State in fetters, 
 By Sin are fpotted o'er, like Pefts in tetters : 
 Truth holds them down to anfwer for her woes, 
 As Dunftan held the Devil by the nofe 1 — 
 All — n is bilious — Sm — th is in a trance, 
 And curft St. Vitus teaches B — ce to dance. 
 Ed — m — ds is dwindling with a cholera morbh ; 
 And D — gg — t's fent to York for Doctor Forbes : 
 
 many years more are part) defcend into the tomb, where the ermine and the 
 pomp of office, and all the emblazonment of the herald will be forgotten, and 
 where nothing can furvive the cold arrows of death, but the virtue of the man. 
 He has found the great fecret, which is fo illufixative of the chriftian doctrine, 
 that the love of himfelf, is involved in the love of others, 
 
 " Self-love but ferves the virtuous mind to zvaie, 
 
 As toe fmall pebble firs the peaceful late : 
 
 The' centre moSd, a circle frait fucceeds ; 
 
 Another filly and fill another fpieads : 
 
 Friend, parent, neighbour, frf it todl embrace^ 
 
 His country next, and next all human race** 
 This inauguration will be memorable in the annals of focial greatnefs : It 
 comes upon us, like the return of the genial fpring, when the brighteft prof- 
 pecl:s are touched by the fweet pencil of hope : Yet it is not flattering, but war- 
 ranted bv the experience of the fenfes. We hail it, as the millennium of Phi- 
 lofophy ; as the commencement of thofe liberal times, when the ethics of cur 
 faith, fhall fuperfede the intolerance of the zealot • when the vizor fhall be pluck- 
 ed from the vifage of the hypocrite ; and the piety cf the tongue, be arranged in 
 comparative examination with the morals of the heart, preparatory to their proi- 
 tration, in fackcloth and allies, before the ar.ge? ^he Ih ing God. 
 
 To fecure an unvaried return of thefe bleiTings, it is incumbent cn every man 
 to be at his poft, for " We have fotcf/d the fake, not killed it" 
 
 It is our bounden duty, to elect fuch men to the prominent offices cf State 
 Government, whofe principles are in accordance with the executive authority 
 of the empire. The whole world is regarding your prefent enjoyment of peace, 
 ftrength, economy and honor, with fenfations of admiration and envy. As le- 
 curity is the deceiver of men, you mufl never forget the caufes of the declenfion 
 of the Roman Republic. — That auguft Commonwealth never fhene with fo 
 much luftre, as in the epoch of its adverfiiy. When they became rich and 
 potent, they were negligent of probity, and ungrateful to their defenders. 
 Deluged with ftreamsof wickednefs that flowed in upon their inflituticns and 
 polluted their manners, they began to forfake their Gods and themfelvcs. Spar- 
 
joo 
 
 THE 1 1 AM I L TON I A b. 
 
 Our plots 'gainft human rights have been unraveil'd f 
 And both the G — cri — s are forely gravelPd — 
 I, who was mounting up Ambition's fky, 
 The great High Trieft of every thing that's high : 
 Like an immenfc Balloon, admir'd and rare, "1 
 Till Abr'am fmote the flatulent affair, f 
 Open'd the valve and let out all the air ! J 
 Damn'd may he be, for this unhallow'd deed ; 
 Let no church welcome him, or eke his feed : 
 May .all deny him bev'rage in his thirft ; 
 Be he 'by man and magistrate accurft : 
 Emafculate him and unftring his reins : 
 Hide the catholicon when he complains ; 
 Monks heap Iiot coals upon the CaluihVs head, 
 And u — e, on his allies, when he's dead. 
 
 tacus, a Thraclan flave (who was the Toniflaint of elder times) took advantage 
 pf their luxurious resignation, and with a band of co-llaves, defeated their 
 ftoutcft Generals. When their manly qualities were cmafeulatcd by vicioufnefs, 
 they funic into effeminacy, and fuficrcd their charter to be ulurped by Csefar ; 
 he had his fucceflbrsin dominion and iniquity, until a horde ot Barbarians, al- 
 lured by their far-famed voluptuoufneis, defcended from the Alps into the preg- 
 nant vallies of Italy, and, like a harfh whirlwind, fwept the embers of the Ro- 
 man people, from the dwellings of their fathers, and the temples of their 
 Olympian Jove. 
 
 If this empire fhould be lucceffively regulated, by men, fimilar in thought 
 and virtue to Mr. Jejferfofl, it will be fo vafl and fnlendicl, as to caft thofe of 
 Rome, AfTyria and Babylon at an immeafurable diilance. Agreeably to the 
 progrefs of time, we may rationally anticipate the blifs when agriculture and 
 commerce fhall traverfe the wilds and the lakes, fpreading civilization and com- 
 fort before them ; until bounded by another fea, the glad Genius of Columbia 
 flbalj repofe, and^ become dutiful and refponfive to the voice of Liberty, from 
 tiie margin of t};e nortltweft cc?an ! 
 
 Teach your children, rcNht^C-itizens, to lifp the achievements of your Rev- 
 olutionary Heroes, and the noble axioms of your Sages at that momentous crilis, 
 that the charaJler of your glory, may be pure and luminous and durable as the 
 Greek fire. InflruJt them in the civilities of demeanor, that our condition may 
 be as graceful as it is vigorous. Guard the Federal compact, that was be- 
 queathed you, by your immortal Wafhington, from the open aiTaults of trea- 
 fon, andthe more dangerous inroads of an unfriendly diffimulation. Depofit 
 it in the ark of your national honor, where we fervently pray, it may remain, 
 integral and unpolluted, for ever and ever ! 
 
 As a Scholar and a Philofopher, Mr. Jefrerfon (lands unrivalled in this em- 
 pire, at leaft there is no extant evidence to the contrary. Dr. Franklin was 
 eminent as a Philanthropic and a Fhilofopher, but not as a polite Scholar, and 
 Mr. Hamilton had but a limited pretention to either character, although he 
 
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THE HAMILTONIAD. SOt 
 
 Rapt in a reverie of fickly doubts, 
 
 Th' egregious E t prattles, prates, and pouts ; 
 
 With ambo-dexter rights and wrongs oppreft, 
 
 The Incubus fits heavy on his breaft ; 
 
 With fpleen and eccentricity accurft, 
 
 In plaintive numbers thus he fwell'd and burft, 
 
 Like twilight gleams I glimmer on the fight, 
 
 Ling'ring towards day, but finking into night; 
 
 To King or Freedom never to be fixt ; 
 
 A Friend to neither, but a Thing betwixt ; 
 
 A vocal Dipthong, true to neither houfe ; 
 
 A Bat of Faction, neither bird nor moufe : 
 
 A vain Camelion, fraught with varying pow'r, 
 
 To take the tint which Folly gives the hour : 
 
 When, in prefumptuous mood, I'm waxing hot, 
 
 Keen Randolph rakes me with an attic {hot ; 
 
 had fatal merit as a political Leader. We have a cheerful expectation that Mr. 
 Jefferfon, may introduce the elements of a national injlitute, among us, to place 
 Science on a bans of appropriate honor. The general ftate of Literature is 
 truly deplorable ; it is rounded with ignorance and calumny — Satire is a 
 wholefome corrective, that requires eminent endowments and acquirements to 
 enforce, but every coarfe mifcreant can defame, and they, who are moft brutal, 
 believe they are moft in requeft. We cannot think of the vaft importance of 
 this country to the felicity of the whole human race, without being tremblingly 
 anxious for the eftablifhment of every advantage, that can be conducive to itj 
 power and glory — At prefent, Montefquieu and Noah Webfer, the Iliad and TanLca 
 Poodle, are nearly in the fame fcale of praife ! 
 
 As there is an unufual portion of good fenfe, in the community, it has often 
 aftonifhed us,ithat there fhrouid be fo little practical decorum, though decorum 
 is the food of 'morals. — We fhonld'be happy to fee the Republicans engraft 
 arijlocratic mbfnners upon democratic principles : — as 'ptoKtenefs is the necefTarjr an4 
 required rjfult of civilization, it will force itfelf eventually, into our embraces $ 
 if it is no^liuffered to advance in mild affociation with freedom, it will afiume 
 a partial aspect, and bur ft upon us, in the fplendid impofitions of a monarchy. 
 — We are^xious to have it proved, that what fociety may gain in principles % 
 they may not lofe in 'manners. We fervently hope the generous influence of 
 Mr. Jefferfon's authority, may add fuch force to the hofpitality of the nation, 
 that when diftinguifhed men arrive in America, in conformity with Congref- 
 Conal invitation, they may receive thofe fweetened civilities of life, which are 
 uniformly enjoyed in the elder countries, where no fuch allurement is held 
 forth. — When this amelioration occurs, if another Ovid fhould bo exiled by 
 another Tyrant, he will not be envied for his genius, nor be obnoxious for his 
 accomplifhments. — Then the Graces and the Mufes, will rejoice, in the libera- 
 tion of the New World, Anthony Pasquin. 
 
J02 
 
 THE II A MILTON I AB. 
 
 Then I exclaim, in Terror's dulcet tone, 
 
 Take me Dubiety, Fin all thy own — 
 
 Bear me, while breathing, from this dreaded fray : 
 
 Fold me in cotton for fome fafer day — 
 
 What's Virtue but a name ? — we're all cnflav'd : 
 
 Lo ! the worn Yet'ran,* begs of him he — fav'd 1 
 
 • Tur. VETERAN op '76. 
 
 V7:irx the tyrants of Britain, with fnrv opprefs'd us ; 
 
 And the States lhook with terror, our foes fo diftrefi'd us ; 
 
 We girded our fwords on, while Washington LIcfs'd us, 
 
 And for this I have curies and rags for rhy ration : — Date ololum Bdifam^ 
 
 Ah ! give a cent to a Soldier of the nation. 
 
 I drove the fierce legions from Lexington village, 
 
 "With arms, forg'd with zeal, from the ploughiharcs for tillage ; 
 
 Cave our Country to hope — fav'd your houfes from pillage. 
 
 At fam'd Bunker's Hill our beft patriot's aflcmbled, 
 And thunder'd our vengeance till Tyranny trembled 
 Then honor gave law, and none honor dilVembled. 
 
 At Monmouth, by day break, we all got in motion, 
 And fpik'd up their cannon, and fpoil'd their devotion ; 
 While the Rivers, all blood ftuin'd, ran fcar'd to the ocean. 
 
 At fam'd Saratoga, we Burgoyne confounded, 
 Where even the Savage, look'd pile and aftuvir.dcd, 
 But we play'd Tamhy Doodle and had them furrounded. 
 
 At T»rk Toivn, when France came, our rights to reftore us. 
 We made flout Cornvvallis, for quarter implore us, 
 While Tarlton and he laid their fwords down before us, 
 
 I loft my right eve, in defending your glory : 
 
 1 loft my firm leg, in deftroying a Tory : 
 
 Then the air fung my praifes, but that's an old ftory. 
 
 Yonder Federal Lord who looks down fo difdainful, 
 Got his wealth, like a knave, from our tickets fo gainful ; 
 \ But Oblivion ftcp in, for that thought is too painful. 
 
 Are we bcrn to do good, and that good to be hated ? 
 
 Are we innately flaves, or with Liberty fated ? 
 
 Why are heroes in .trouble, by infolence bated ? , 
 
 What is man ? — what are rights, but a thing and a dream. Sir ? 
 What is joy, but a flafh, o'er the mind, like a ?!eam, Sir^ 
 Who'd believe that I icas, who could fee what I Sir i 
 
 With a heart that Ingratitude's cleft to the core, Sir, 
 With a fpirit, that once you were proud to adore, Sir, 
 I muft wander, an Outcaft, from door unto doer, Sir. 
 
 Oh, my God ! by whom all mortal woe is affuaged ; 
 
 Who fhelter'd the Lamb when fell cruelty raged ; 
 
 Keep the pitileis ftorm from a head that's fo aged ; 
 
 For here I have curfes and rags for my ration j — Dai; cbolum Belifarit*. 
 
 Ah give 2. cent to a Soldier of the natien ! A P. 
 
Ifhe Hamilton i ad. 
 
 I was not born to follow Reafon's track ; 
 I, when I pleafe, take Wifdom's fails aback : 
 I, can teaze Pallas, on her mental throne ; 
 In fhort, I'm, I — I am myfelf alone ! 
 
 Then mouths, by myriads, bellow'd in the air 9 
 In one dire burft of horrible defpair : 
 The hideous yell of many tongues began, 
 To call on Pity, like a proftrate clan : 
 Thick as the miafm in the folar blaze ; 
 Thick as the hands applaud, when Bernard plays 3 
 Thick as glad mobs to fee a ftorm-torn wreck : 
 Thick as March-wafted duft on Bofton neck : 
 Thick as the queftions in a crowded ftage : 
 Thick as the curfes from a Prieft, in rage : 
 Thick as the infects flit in Ruin's flame ; 
 Thick as the (landers float round Honor's name : 
 Thick as the rice-ftalks in the damp favannah ; 
 Thick as the Coxcombs buz round peerlefs Anna. 
 While the malignant Paflions urg'd their flaves, 
 And Mercy frown'd upon the fhudd'ring knaves. 
 So many bofom-rending, heart-drawn flghs ; 
 Such tides of mis'ry ifluing from the eyes : 
 Yet all for pride, and none for virtue given, 
 Provok'd the vengeance of obferving Heaven : 
 Who breath'd, in ire, th' incontinent decree ; 
 And bade their human powers ceafe to be. 
 Swift as Aurora's gleam pervades the Iky — 
 Rapid as Malice bears th' envenom'd lie, 
 T' ingulph the fated virtuous in defpair — 
 Fleet, as the livid Lightning cleaves the air : 
 A fweeping Metamorphofis enfu'd, 
 And chang'd the functions of the fniv'lling brood : 
 
$04 THE HA MILTON I ADi, 
 
 Reptiles and Animals, bore Dicks and Ned3, 
 And flirunk (difhonor'd) with the fouls of Feds ( 
 Ell — t, the egotift, (of largefs baulk'd) 
 Chang'd (not degraded) as a Magpie talk'd — 
 The belching Luther dwindled to a Leech, 
 And Park a Gnat upon Apollo's breech— 
 The Deadly Seven, who've pertinacious ftrove, 
 To fliut Connecticut from focial love : 
 Who {talk'd o'er Honor with tyrannic aims/ 
 Smote the fcarr'd Soldier, and efTac'd his claims ; 
 Were turn'd in rav'nous Sharks, to nurture pain, 
 And maffacrc weak Gudgeons in the main ; 
 While, as their Piht-fijh, ilern T — ■ — y rode 
 To fnuff the fcent, and lead them on to blood ! 
 Huge E — y was tranfmutcd to a Moufe : 
 Th' unmanner'd Bcaji of Groton, to — a Loufe : 
 Ot — s, a Humming- Bird, on Daphne's tree, 
 And kingly Rufus to a fleur de Lis,: 
 
 D r, a lufus nattira in growth, 
 
 Nor this, nor that, but fomething between both > 
 H — lb — t, a Parrot, Vanity had caught, 
 Prattling the obloquy, that Treafon taught — 
 Coleman a watch-dog, Fallacy had gain'd, 
 Eager to bark and fond of — being chain'd — 
 Fezzy ('twas poflible) became dimmifh'd 
 To a Mufquiio, and the labour nnifh'd ! 
 The reft were damn'd, in heaps, to endlefs pain, 
 And Virtue took her ftation, once again ! 
 
 THE FEDERAL EPITAPH. 
 We were well : 
 Would be better, 
 And here we are ! 
 Heu, quam difficilis gloria cujlodia eft ! 
 No/he Teipfum — .Bon foir, mon ami — Och hoan, och hoan I 
 
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