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====== Anti-Federalist No. 1 ====== | ====== Anti-Federalist No. 1 ====== | ||
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From The Boston Gazette and Country Journal, November 26, 1787. | From The Boston Gazette and Country Journal, November 26, 1787. | ||
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The numerous tribunals to be erected by the new plan of consolidated empire, will find employment for ten [or a hundred] times their present numbers; these are the LOAVES AND FISHES for which they hunger. They will probably find it suited to THEIR HABITS, if not to the HABITS OF THE PEOPLE. There may be reasons for having but few of them in the State Convention, lest THEIR INTEREST should be too strongly considered. The time draws near for the choice of Delegates. I hope my fellow-citizens will look well to the characters of their preference, and remember the Old Patriots of 75; they have never led them astray, nor need they fear to try them on this momentous occasion. | The numerous tribunals to be erected by the new plan of consolidated empire, will find employment for ten [or a hundred] times their present numbers; these are the LOAVES AND FISHES for which they hunger. They will probably find it suited to THEIR HABITS, if not to the HABITS OF THE PEOPLE. There may be reasons for having but few of them in the State Convention, lest THEIR INTEREST should be too strongly considered. The time draws near for the choice of Delegates. I hope my fellow-citizens will look well to the characters of their preference, and remember the Old Patriots of 75; they have never led them astray, nor need they fear to try them on this momentous occasion. | ||
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