To him alone were they indebted for their appointments.

To whom did those "who wanted to be officers" look for the gratification of their wishes?
To the same person.

Would every individual in search of office enlist himself in a party so odious to "the main body of our citizens," and "the whole landed interest," if he did not think the road leading directly to that which he sought?
As if willing to keep out of view what can not be explained away, Mr.
Jefferson turns our attention to other passages supposed to be more equivocal.

He insists[76] that the letter saying "that two out of the three branches of the legislature were against us, was an obvious exception of him; it being well known that the majorities in the two branches of the senate and representatives were the very instruments which carried, in opposition to the old and real republicans, the measures which were the subjects of condemnation in this letter." [Footnote 76: Vol.iv.p.

405.] But did these measures obtain the force of laws by the mere act of the senate and house of representatives?
Did not the President assent to them?
If he did, how could the expression "two out of three branches of the legislature" be an obvious exception of him?
But the letter speaks of the then existing legislature.