The Works of Alexander Hamilton (Volume 5); Cabinet Papers [Contin.] 1794-1795. [Miscellanies, 1794-1795] Military Papers. 1798-1800. Correspondence [Contin.] 1789-1795 (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: it can be done with safety. The friends of government at Pittsburgh ought to rally their confidence, and if necessary, manifest it by acts. They cannot surely doubt the power of the United States to uphold the authority of the laws; and they may be assured, that the necessity of doing it, towards preserving the very existence of government, so directly attacked, will dictate and produce a most vigorous and persevering effort, in which the known good sense and love of order of the quiet body of the people, and all the information hitherto received of their sentiments and feelings with regard to the present emergency, authorize a full expectation of their hearty co-operation. SECRETARY OF STATE TO MIFFLIN. Draft by Hamilton. Philadelphia, August 80th, 1794. I am directed by the President to acknowledge the receipt on the 17th of your excellency's letter, dated the 12th instant. The President feels with you the force of the motives which render undesirable an extension of correspondence on the subject in question. But the case being truly one of great importance and delicacy, these motives must yield in a degree to the propriety and utility of giving precision to every part of the transaction, and guarding effectually against ultimate misapprehension. To this end it is deemed advisable, in the first place, to state some facts, which either do not appear, or are conceived not to have assumed an accurate shape in your excellency's letter. They are these: 1. You were informed at the conference that all the information which had been received had been laid before an associate justice, in order that he might consider and determine whether such a case as is contemplated by the second section of the act, which provides for calling forth the militia to execute the laws ...