STATE SOVEREIGNTY.

MR. JAY'S SECOND LETTER

ON

DAWSON'S INTRODUCTION TO THE FEDERALIST.
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EXPOSING ITS FALSIFICATION OF THE HISTORY OF THE CONSTITUTION; ITS
LIBELS ON DUANE, LIVINGSTON, JAY AND HAMILTON; AND
ITS RELATION TO RECENT EFFORTS BY TRAITORS AT HOME, AND
MAINTAIN THE REBEL DOCTRINE OF STATE

FOES ABROAD, TO

SOVEREIGNTY, FOR THE SUBVERSION OF THE UNITY OF
THE REPUBLIC AND THE SUPREME SOVEREIGNTY OF
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.

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WASHINGTON TO MADISON, 1787:

Thirteen Sovereignties pulling against each other and all

tugging at the Federal head, will soon bring ruin on the whole."

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FRANKLIN PIERCE TO JEFFERSON DAVIS, Jan. 6, 1860:

(Quoted in the Boston Journal)

The fighting will not be along Mason and Dixon's line

merely. It will be within our borders-in our own streets," &c.

VALLANDIGHAM TO COL. D. D. INSHALL, of the 8th Alabama Volunteers, 1863:

(Quoted in the Boston Journal.)

You have but to persevere, and the victory will easily

be yours. You must strike home.

giving battle on your enemies' soil."

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To the Editors of the Evening Post.

Sirs,-When in February I wrote my first letter on Mr. Dawson's edition of the Federalist, I had been chiefly struck with the instances to which I called attention, of the singular misappreciation exhibited, in the "Introduction," of the character of the work, its extraordinary misrepresentation of the course pursued by the friends of the Constitution, and its inexplicable violation of historic truth in regard to the most familiar incidents in the life of my grandfather.

In the face of the fact apparent to every student of American history, and which is thus stated by John Adams, “Mr. Jay had as much influence in the preparatory measures for digesting the Constitution and in obtaining its adoption as any man in the nation," a fact which has been eloquently dwelt upon by Mr. Webster in his well known letter to the Honorable James A. Hamilton and other citizens of Westchester county, the declaration of Mr. Dawson that Jay found in the Constitution "little that he could commend, and nothing for which he could labor," seemed to me to exhibit a very remarkable amount either of ignorance or of malice.

A more careful reading of the "Introduction," the tone of Mr.