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[1] This refers to the Memoirs of the writer, to which the present essay was intended to be an episode. See Introduction to this volume. Eds.

[2] See Appendix.

[3] This contradiction between names and principles was obvious even to intelligent foreigners. The French minister Fauchet, in his famous despatch to his government (the publication of which worked the downfall of Edmund Randolph, Washington's Secretary of State) alluding to political parties in America, speaks of the whimsical contrast between their names, Federal and Anti-Federal, and their real opinions;—the former aiming with all their power to annihilate federalism, while the latter were striving to preserve it.

[4] 1 Madison Papers, 291.

[5] 2 Jefferson's Correspondence, 276.

[6] See Address; 2 Madison, 698. Not more than one, if one, of the five States was fully in favor of a Convention.

[7] Journals of that Congress, Vol. IV. p. 724.

[8] Sparks's Washington, Vol. IX.; Notes, pp. 237–9.