TO
The PRESIDENT,
The VICE PRESIDENT,
The SENATORS, and
The REPRESENTATIVS
OF THE
UNITED STATES of AMERICA,
The following PUBLICATION,
Designed to
Aid the Principles of the Revolution,
TO
Suppress Political Discord,
AND TO
Diffuse a Spirit of Enquiry,
Favorable to Morals, to Science, and Truth,
Is most humbly inscribed,
As a Tribute of Respect for their Karacters,
Of Gratitude for their Public Services,
And a Pledge of Attachment
TO THE
Present CONSTITUTION
OF THE
AMERICAN REPUBLIC,
BY THEIR MOST OBEDIENT,
AND MOST HUMBLE SERVANT,

The Author.

Hartford, June, 1790.

As the author was absent from the press, and the copy, in some places, obscure or not correct, some errors have unavoidably escaped the notice of the printers. The following are the most material.

Page [47], line 7, after corporate add body.
[49], line 4 from bottom, for cognized reed organized.
[54], line 6 of note, for would reed could.
[58], line 7, for contrary reed contracting.
[146], last line, for thousand reed hundred.
[151], line 2 from bottom, for jurisdiction reed usurpation.
[263], line 13, for do reed did.
[275], line 5, for Archorites reed Archontes.
[283], line 14, for leriquæ reed linguæ, and for dacodeni duodeni.
[323], last line of text, for godfather reed grandfather.
[327], line 7 from bottom, for change reed chance.
[332], line 7 from bottom, for masks reed marks.
[334], line 22, place the full point after equity.
[349], line 1, for district reed distinct.
[350], line 2, for mass reed map.
[355], line 5, for ilans reed clans.
[365], line 9, for the manners reed this manner.
[375], line 3 and 4 from bottom, for ilans reed ilands.
[377], line 4, for Koman reed Roman.
[382], line 4 from bottom, for necessarily reed necessary.
[401], line 28, for normous reed enormous.

PREFACE.

The following Collection consists of Essays and Fugitiv Peeces, ritten at various times, and on different occasions, az wil appeer by their dates and subjects. Many of them were dictated at the moment, by the impulse of impressions made by important political events, and abound with a correspondent warmth of expression. This freedom of language wil be excused by the frends of the revolution and of good guvernment, who wil recollect the sensations they hav experienced, amidst the anarky and distraction which succeeded the cloze of the war. On such occasions a riter wil naturally giv himself up to hiz feelings, and hiz manner of riting wil flow from hiz manner of thinking.

Most of thoze peeces, which hav appeered before in periodical papers and Magazeens, were published with fictitious signatures; for I very erly discuvered, that altho the name of an old and respectable karacter givs credit and consequence to hiz ritings, yet the name of a yung man iz often prejudicial to hiz performances. By conceeling my name, the opinions of men hav been prezerved from an undu bias arizing from personal prejudices, the faults of the ritings hav been detected, and their merit in public estimation ascertained.