The main body of our citizens, however, remain true to their republican principles; the whole landed interest is republican, and so is a great mass of talents.

Against us are the executive, the judiciary, two out of three branches of the legislature, all the officers of the government, all who want to be officers, all timid men who prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty, British merchants and Americans trading on British capitals, speculators and holders in the banks and public funds, a contrivance invented for the purposes of corruption, and for assimilating us in all things to the rotten as well as sound parts of the British model.
It would give you a fever were I to name to you the apostates who have gone over to these heresies, men who were Samsons in the field and Solomons in council, but who have had their heads shorn by the harlot England.

In short, we are likely to preserve the liberty we have obtained only by unremitting labours and perils.

But we shall preserve it; and our mass of weight and wealth on the good side is so great as to leave no danger that force will ever be attempted against us.

We have only to awake and snap the Lilliputian cords with which they have been entangling us during the first sleep which succeeded our labours.
"I will forward the testimonials, &c." [Footnote 73: Vol.iii.p.