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a greater error, than to believe a man whom we 

 see qualified with too mean parts to do good, to 

 be therefore incapable of doing hurt. There is 

 a supply of malice, of pride, of industry, and even 

 of foil v, in the weakest, when he sets upon it, that 

 makes a strange progress in mischief." 



The history of parties is a history of struggles 

 for office and authority on the part of the leaders, 

 who beguile the honest feelings of the people into 

 their traps of ambition, and the greater the cla- 

 mour, the more inordinate the cupidity. It is 

 common for a dog shut cut of a house in the even- 

 ing, to bark and make a great noise, until some- 

 body opens the door, and then instantly whip in 

 and be quiet. This is a true delineation of the 

 leaders of faction. 



This state is making rapid and gigantic strides 

 to eminence and greatness. Her canals are the 

 admiration of the world, and her encouragement' 

 of agriculture, literature, and the arts, is truly 

 munificent. To see the proiligate attempts to 

 arrest this great system of public improvement, in 

 order to elevate obscure petifoggers, and misera- 

 ble drivellers, is really calculated to excite more 

 than common sensibility. " Men, says an emi- 

 nent writer, who honestly engage themselves in 

 the public cause, must prepare themselves fc\s 



