[mrsmith]

Doh! I meant to get Anti-Federalist into the title. Well, I hope some of the Freepers who'd enjoy this stumble across it tonight anyway.

"They have created an Indian war, that an army may Spring out of it; and the trifling affair of our having eleven captives at Algiers (who ought long ago to have been ransomed) is made the pretext for going to war with them, and fitting out a fleet. With these two engines, and the collateral aid derived from a host of revenue officers, farewell freedom in America.
Gently, indeed, did I touch it in argument; but is not a motion for the destruction of rite individuality of the States, treason against the duty of a Senator, who, from the nature of his appointment, ought to be guardian of the State right?
The little I said, however, I believe raised a goblin that frightened them from the project, at least for this time."

[mrsmith]

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Journal of William Maclay, United States Senator from Pennsylvania, 1789-1791

Title Page
Untitled
PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
LIST OF PERSONS REFERRED TO IN THE JOURNAL.
THE RULES OF PROCEEDINGS FOR THE FIRST UNITED STATES SENATE.
CHAPTER I. ON TITLES AND CEREMONIES.
CHAPTER II. THE FIRST TARIFF DEBATE.
CHAPTER III. THE JUDICIARY BILL.
CHAPTER IV. ON THE PERMANENT RESIDENCE OF CONGRESS.
SECOND SESSION OF THE FIRST CONGRESS.
CHAPTER V. SPECULATION IN CERTIFICATES.
CHAPTER VI. THE ASSUMPTION AND NATURALIZATION BILLS.
CHAPTER VII. SALARIES AND PENSIONS.
CHAPTER VIII. THE PERMANENT RESIDENCE.
CHAPTER IX. THE FUNDING BILL.
CHAPTER X. ON THE RESIDENCE OF CONGRESS.
CHAPTER XI. THE SETTLEMENT AND ASSUMPTION BILLS.
THIRD SESSION OF THE FIRST CONGRESS.
CHAPTER XII. AS TO RE-ELECTION.
CHAPTER XIII. CENTRALIZATION OF POWER.
CHAPTER XIV. RELATIONS WITH FRANCE AND THE EXCISE.
INDEX
HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, From the Discovery of the Continent to the Establishment of the Constitution in 1789.

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