but tories hereafter into any Department of the Govern-
ment." An interesting view of the situation from the
Anti-Federalist standpoint appeared in a letter sent to
Charleston from Philadelphia at this time: *'I can
easily figure to myself your astonishment at hearing the
Senate had negatived the appointment of the Chief
Justice. Although he is revered in Carolina by the
glories of his actions, particularly those which il-
Imninated your political hemisphere during the difficult
times in which he held the reins of government, yet
such is the violence of party spirit, the force of stock-
jobbing influence and the prejudice of oiu* prejudiced
Anglo-men here that it is regarded as wise in the Senate to
keep out of office everyone who has spoken disrespect-
fully of the treaty lately made or Mr. Jay. In the major-
ity of the Senate are gentlemen who af^^peisonally ac-
quainted with the Chief Justice, intimately acquainted
with his splendid talents and sound judgment, and who,
in their conversations out of Senate, do homage to his
pure patriotism and republican finnness. But the fact
is, that Mr. Hamilton who manages the Senate, has
become a perfect terrorist, and his satellites and votaries
disseminate with uncommon industry the following
principle : that it is ruinous to admit into administra-<
tion any man who may refuse to go all lengths with it ;
that oiu* citizens who expressed their disapprobation
of the commercial treaty are enemies to the general
government; that most of them are in the pay of
France, and the object of their service is the overthrow of
the Constitution. If your citizens preserve that politi-
cal honesty they were so rich in when I knew them,
this sort of doctrine will shock them. They will
exclaim, what political blasphemy ! What eflProntery !
But here, where stockjobbers, speculators and Ameri-
can Anglo-men have duped many of our honest, un-
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