Supplement: Quasi-War Documents | Quasi-War Documents, 1798–1800 | Documents | Josias Carvel Hall to Alexander Hamilton, 22 July 1799
IntroductionCato I, New York Journal, 27 September 1787 (excerpt)Richard Henry Lee’s Proposed Amendments, 27 September 1787Henry Knox to Henry Jackson, New York, post-28 September 1787 (excerpt)James Madison to George Washington, New York, 30 September 1787 (excerpt)Richard Henry Lee to George Mason, New York, 1 October 1787 (excerpt)Cæsar I, New York Daily Advertiser, 1 October 1787 (excerpt)Address of the Seceding Pennsylvania Assemblymen, Philadelphia, 2 October 1787 (excerpts)Richard Henry Lee to Samuel Adams, New York, 5 October 1787Centinel I, Philadelphia Independent Gazetteer, 5 October 1787 (excerpts)James Wilson: Speech at a Public Meeting, Philadelphia, State House Yard, 6 October 1787 (excerpt)George Mason: Objections to the Constitution, 7 October 1787Foederal Constitution, Pennsylvania Gazette, 10 October 1787 (excerpt)Richard Henry Lee to George Washington, New York, 11 October 1787 (excerpt)A Citizen of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Packet, 12 October 1787 (excerpts)An Old Whig I, Philadelphia Independent Gazetteer, 12 October 1787Sly-Boots, Pennsylvania Herald, 13 October 1787Philadelphia Independent Gazetteer, 13 October 1787George Washington to Henry Knox, Mount Vernon, Fairfax County, Va., 15 October 1787 (excerpt)A Democratic Federalist, Pennsylvania Herald, 17 October 1787 (excerpt)Cæsar II, New York Daily Advertiser, 17 October 1787 (excerpt)Montezuma, Philadelphia Independent Gazetteer, 17 October 1787Elbridge Gerry to the Massachusetts General Court, New York, 18 October 1787A Citizen of Philadelphia, Remarks on the Address of Sixteen Members, Philadelphia, 18 October 1787 (excerpt)An Old Whig III, Philadelphia Independent Gazetteer, 20 October 1787 (excerpt)An American Citizen IV: On the Federal Government, Philadelphia, 21 October 1787 (excerpts)Henry Knox to Marquis de Lafayette, New York, 24 October 1787 (excerpts)A Citizen, Pennsylvania Carlisle Gazette, 24 October 1787 (excerpt)Centinel II, Philadelphia Freeman’s Journal, 24 October 1787 (excerpts)An Old Constitutionalist, Philadelphia Independent Gazetteer, 26 October 1787 (excerpt)Richard Henry Lee to Samuel Adams, New York, 27 October 1787A Confederationalist, Pennsylvania Herald, 27 October 1787 (excerpt)“M.C.,” Pennsylvania Herald, 27 October 1787An Old Whig IV, Philadelphia Independent Gazetteer, 27 October 1787 (excerpt)John De Witt II, Boston American Herald, 29 October 1787 (excerpt)Brutus II, New York Journal, 1 November 1787 (excerpt)Cincinnatus I: To James Wilson, Esquire, New York Journal, 1 November 1787 (excerpt)Timoleon, New York Journal, 1 November 1787 (extraordinary) (excerpts)An Old Whig V, Philadelphia Independent Gazetteer, 1 November 1787 (excerpt)“M.,” New Hampshire Spy, 3 November 1787 (excerpt)Archibald Stuart to John Breckinridge, Richmond, Va., 6 November 1787 (excerpt)An Officer of the Late Continental Army, Philadelphia Independent Gazetteer, 6 November 1787 (excerpts)Hugh Williamson: Speech at Edenton, N.C., 8 November 1787 (excerpt)Federal Farmer, Letters to the Republican, New York, 8 November 1787 (excerpts)Cincinnatus II: To James Wilson, Esquire, New York Journal, 8 November 1787Centinel III, Philadelphia Independent Gazetteer, 8 November 1787 (excerpts)Uncus, Maryland Journal, 9 November 1787 (excerpt)John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, London, 10 November 1787 (excerpt)William Grayson to William Short, New York, 10 November 1787 (excerpt)David Ramsay to Benjamin Rush, Charleston, S.C., 10 November 1787Plain Truth, Philadelphia Independent Gazetteer, 10 November 1787 (excerpts)“R.S.,” Pennsylvania Herald, 10 November 1787“G.,” Pittsburgh Gazette, 10 November 1787 (excerpt)Massachusetts Centinel, 10 November 1787Portius, Boston American Herald, 12 November 1787 (excerpt)James White to Governor Richard Caswell, New York, 13 November 1787 (excerpt)One of the Late Army, Philadelphia Freeman’s Journal, 14 November 1787Vox Populi, Massachusetts Gazette, 16 November 1787 (excerpt)Philadelphia Freeman’s Journal, 21 November 1787Algernon Sidney, Philadelphia Independent Gazetteer, 21 November 1787 (excerpt)Atticus III, Boston Independent Chronicle, 22 November 1787 (excerpts)A Countryman II, New Haven Gazette, 22 November 1787A Plain Citizen: To the Honorable the Convention of the State of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Independent Gazetteer, 22 November 1787 (excerpt)Truth, Massachusetts Centinel, 24 November 1787Preston, Connecticut: Instructions to Its Town Delegates to the State Convention, 26 November 1787 (excerpts)A Federal Republican: A Review of the Constitution, New York, 28 November 1787 (excerpt)An Old Whig VII, Philadelphia Independent Gazetteer, 28 November 1787One of the Middling-Interest, Massachusetts Centinel, 28 November 1787Valerius, Massachusetts Centinel, 28 November 1787The Pennsylvania Convention and a Bill of Rights, 28 November–12 December 1787The Pennsylvania Convention and a Bill of Rights, 28 November–12 December 1787 [Editorial Note]James Wilson: Speech in the Pennsylvania Convention, 28 November 1787John Smilie: Speech in the Pennsylvania Convention, 28 November 1787Thomas McKean: Speech in the Pennsylvania Convention, 28 November 1787James Wilson and John Smilie: Speeches in the Pennsylvania Convention, 28 November 1787Robert Whitehill: Speech in the Pennsylvania Convention, 28 November 1787Thomas Hartley: Speech in the Pennsylvania Convention, 30 November 1787Benjamin Rush: Speech in the Pennsylvania Convention, 30 November 1787Jasper Yeates: Speech in the Pennsylvania Convention, 30 November 1787James Wilson: Speech in the Pennsylvania Convention, 4 December 1787James Wilson: Speech in the Pennsylvania Convention, 7 December 1787Cumberland County Petition Read in the Pennsylvania Convention, 12 December 1787Robert Whitehill: Speech in the Pennsylvania Convention, 12 December 1787 A Countryman III, New Haven Gazette, 29 November 1787 (excerpt)Editors’ Note: The Virginia General Assembly and a Second General Convention, 30 November–27 December 1787Portland, Maine, Cumberland Gazette, 30 November 1787Many Customers, Philadelphia Independent Gazetteer, 1 December 1787 (excerpts)Archibald Stuart to James Madison, Richmond, Va., 2 December 1787 (excerpt)Samuel Adams to Richard Henry Lee, Boston, 3 December 1787One of the Common People, Boston Gazette, 3 December 1787Philadelphiensis III, Philadelphia Freeman’s Journal, 5 December 1787 (excerpts)“Z,” Boston Independent Chronicle, 6 December 1787 (excerpt)Portland, Maine, Cumberland Gazette, 6 December 1787Brutus, Virginia Journal, 6 December 1787 (excerpt)A True Friend, Richmond, Va., 6 December 1787 (excerpt)From Roger Sherman, New Haven, Conn., 8 December 1787 (excerpt)A Landholder VI, Connecticut Courant, 10 December 1787 (excerpts)George Lee Turberville to James Madison, Richmond, Va., 11 December 1787 (excerpts)Pennsylvania Convention Considers Amendments to Constitution, 12 December 1787James Madison to Archibald Stuart, New York, 14 December 1787 (excerpt)Agrippa VI, Massachusetts Gazette, 14 December 1787 (excerpt)Belchertown, Mass.: Instructions to State Convention Delegates, 17 December 1787The Dissent of the Minority of the Pennsylvania Convention, 18 December 1787 (excerpts)A Countryman, Baltimore Maryland Gazette, 18 December 1787 (excerpt)Anti-Cincinnatus, Northampton, Mass., Hampshire Gazette, 19 December 1787North Carolina Gazette, 19 December 1787 (excerpt)Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, Paris, 20 December 1787 (excerpt)Rufus King to Jeremiah Wadsworth, New York, 23 December 1787 (excerpt)One of the People: Antifederal Arguments, Maryland Journal, 25 December 1787 (excerpt)Philadelphiensis VI, Philadelphia Freeman’s Journal, 26 December 1787 (excerpt)Edmund Randolph: Reasons for Not Signing the Constitution, 27 December 1787 (excerpt)Remarker, Boston Independent Chronicle, 27 December 1787 (excerpts)The New Roof, Pennsylvania Packet, 29 December 1787 (excerpts)America, New York Daily Advertiser, 31 December 1787 (excerpts)Thomas Jefferson to Uriah Forrest, Paris, 31 December 1787 (excerpt)Marquis de Lafayette to George Washington, Paris, 1 January 1788 (excerpt)Giles Hickory, New York American Magazine, 1 January 1788Mariot, Massachusetts Centinel, 2 January 1788Samuel Osgood to Samuel Adams, New York, 5 January 1788 (excerpt)The Republican, Connecticut Courant, 7 January 1788Thomas B. Wait to George Thatcher, Portland, Maine, 8 January 1788 (excerpt)George Washington to Edmund Randolph, Mount Vernon, Fairfax County, Va., 8 January 1788Massachusetts Salem Mercury, 8 January 1788Dentatus, Philadelphia Independent Gazetteer, 8 January 1788Jeremiah Hill to George Thatcher, Biddeford, Maine, 9 January 1788 (excerpt)Pennsylvania Gazette, 9 January 1788Pennsylvania Packet, 9 January 1788Conciliator, Philadelphia Independent Gazetteer, 9 January 1788James Madison to Edmund Randolph, New York, 10 January 1788 (excerpts)An Impartial Citizen, Petersburg Virginia Gazette, 10 January 1788 (excerpt)A Farmer, Exeter, N.H., Freeman’s Oracle, 11 January 1788 (excerpts)An Honest American, Philadelphia Independent Gazetteer, 11 January 1788Publius: The Federalist 38, New York Independent Journal, 12 January 1788 (excerpts)Charles Johnson to James Iredell, Strawberry Hill, Edenton, N.C., 14 January 1788 (excerpt)Marlborough, New Hampshire, Town Meeting, 15 January 1788 (excerpts)Agrippa XII, Massachusetts Gazette, 15 January 1788 (excerpt)Conciliator, Philadelphia Independent Gazetteer, 15 January 1788A Republican Federalist, Philadelphia Freeman’s Journal, 16 January 1788 (excerpt)Philadelphia Freeman’s Journal, 16 January 1788Philanthropos, Pennsylvania Gazette, 16 January 1788Brutus IX, New York Journal, 17 January 1788 (excerpt)The South Carolina House of Representatives and a Bill of Rights, 18 January 1788Alfredus, Exeter, N.H., Freeman’s Oracle, 18 January 1788An Independent Freeholder, Winchester Virginia Gazette, 18 January 1788 (excerpts)An Honest American, Philadelphia Independent Gazetteer, 19 January 1788 (excerpt)Verus Conciliator, Philadelphia Independent Gazetteer, 19 January 1788Junius, Massachusetts Gazette, 22 January 1788 (excerpt)Silas Lee to George Thatcher, Biddeford, Maine, 23 January 1788 (excerpt)John Adams to Cotton Tufts, Grosvenor Square, London, 23 January 1788Valerius, Virginia Independent Chronicle, 23 January 1788 (excerpt)The Massachusetts Convention and a Bill of Rights, 23 January–5 February 1788The Massachusetts Convention and a Bill of Rights, 23 January–5 February 1788 [Editorial Note]Joseph Bradley Varnum: Speech in the Massachusetts Convention, 23 January 1788Samuel Thompson: Speech in the Massachusetts Convention, 23 January 1788 (excerpt)James Bowdoin: Speech in the Massachusetts Convention, 23 January 1788 (excerpt)Theophilus Parsons: Speech in the Massachusetts Convention, 23 January 1788 (excerpt)Abraham Holmes: Speech in the Massachusetts Convention, 30 January 1788Christopher Gore: Speech in the Massachusetts Convention, 30 January 1788Thomas Dawes, Jr.: Speech in the Massachusetts Convention, 30 January 1788William Cushing: Undelivered Speech in the Massachusetts Convention, c. 4 February 1788 (excerpt)John Taylor: Speech in the Massachusetts Convention, 5 February 1788Theophilus Parsons: Speech in the Massachusetts Convention, 5 February 1788 Massachusetts Centinel, 26 January 1788Plain Truth, Philadelphia Independent Gazetteer, 26 January 1788Agrippa XV, Massachusetts Gazette, 29 January 1788 (excerpts)Civis Rusticus, Virginia Independent Chronicle, 30 January 1788 (excerpts)Aristides: Remarks on the Proposed Plan of a Federal Government, Annapolis, Md., 31 January 1788 (excerpt)Thomas Jefferson to William Stephens Smith, Paris, 2 February 1788 (excerpt)Marquis de Lafayette to George Washington, Paris, 4 February 1788 (excerpts)Agrippa XVI, Massachusetts Gazette, 5 February 1788 (excerpts)Massachusetts Convention Recommends Amendments to Constitution, 6 February 1788John Trumbull to Jonathan Trumbull, Jr., Paris, 6 February 1788 (excerpt)Philadelphiensis IX, Philadelphia Freeman’s Journal, 6 February 1788 (excerpt)An Old Whig VIII, Philadelphia Independent Gazetteer, 6 February 1788 (excerpt)The State Soldier II, Virginia Independent Chronicle, 6 February 1788 (excerpt)Thomas Jefferson to Alexander Donald, Paris, 7 February 1788 (excerpt)George Washington to Marquis de Lafayette, Mount Vernon, Fairfax County, Va., 7 February 1788 (excerpt)A Friend to the Rights of the People: Anti-Fœderalist, No. I, Exeter, N.H., Freeman’s Oracle, 8 February 1788 (excerpts)A Friend to the Republic: Anti-Fœderalist, No. II, Exeter, N.H., Freeman’s, Oracle, 8 February 1788 (excerpts)John Adams to Cotton Tufts, London, 12 February 1788Conciliator, Philadelphia Independent Gazetteer, 12 February 1788 (excerpt)Algernon Sidney II, Philadelphia Independent Gazetteer, 13 February 1788 (excerpt)A Citizen of the United States, Pennsylvania Gazette, 13 February 1788A Farmer I, Baltimore Maryland Gazette, 15 February 1788New York Journal, 15 February 1788From George Nicholas, Charlottesville, Va., 16 February 1788 (excerpt)Baltimore Maryland Gazette, 19 February 1788Marcus I, Norfolk and Portsmouth Journal, 20 February 1788 (excerpt)The Impartial Examiner I, Virginia Independent Chronicle, 20 February 1788 (excerpt)Alexander White, Winchester Virginia Gazette, 22 February 1788 (excerpts)Richard Henry Lee to James Gordon, Jr., Chantilly, Westmoreland County, Va., 26 February 1788 (excerpt)Joseph Spencer to James Madison, Orange County, Va., 28 February 1788 (excerpts)Alexander White, Winchester Virginia Gazette, 29 February 1788 (excerpts)A Farmer II, Baltimore Maryland Gazette, 29 February 1788 (excerpts)A Columbian Patriot: Observations on the Constitution, Boston, February 1788 (excerpt)Giles Hickory, New York American Magazine, 1 March 1788Pittsburgh Gazette, 1 March 1788 (excerpt)Petition of the Inhabitants of Wayne Township, Cumberland County, Pa., 1 March 1788Aristides, Maryland Journal, 4 March 1788 (extra) (excerpt)The Impartial Examiner I, Virginia Independent Chronicle, 5 March 1788 (excerpt)Providence, R.I., United States Chronicle, 6 March 1788John Page to Thomas Jefferson, Rosewell, Gloucester County, Va., 7 March 1788 (excerpt)Philadelphiensis XI, Philadelphia Independent Gazetteer, 8 March 1788 (excerpt)Reflection I, Pennsylvania Carlisle Gazette, 12 March 1788 (excerpt)A Plebeian, Maryland Journal, 14 March 1788 (excerpt)Sommers, Pittsburgh Gazette, 15 March 1788Maryland Journal, 18 March 1788 (excerpt)Pennsylvania Carlisle Gazette, 19 March 1788 (excerpt)Gazette of the State of Georgia, 20 March 1788 (excerpt)Luther Martin: Address No. II, Maryland Journal, 21 March 1788 (excerpt)Philadelphia Freeman’s Journal, 26 March 1788Luther Martin: Address No. III, Maryland Journal, 28 March 1788A Friend to Equal Liberty, Philadelphia Independent Gazetteer, 28 March 1788Amendment, Rhode Island Providence Gazette, 29 March 1788A Farmer VI, Baltimore Maryland Gazette, 1 April 1788A Native of Virginia: Observations upon the Proposed Plan of Federal Government, Petersburg, Va., 2 April 1788 (excerpt)Boston Independent Chronicle, 3 April 1788A Planter, Gazette of the State of Georgia, 3 April 1788Luther Martin: Address No. IV, Maryland Journal, 4 April 1788 (excerpt)George Nicholas to James Madison, Charlottesville, Va., 5 April 1788 (excerpt)James Madison to George Nicholas, Orange, Va., 8 April 1788 (excerpt)Thoughts at the Plough, Pennsylvania Carlisle Gazette, 9 April 1788Cassius II: To Richard Henry Lee, Esquire, Virginia Independent Chronicle, 9 April 1788 (excerpt)A Freeholder, Virginia Independent Chronicle, 9 April 1788 (extraordinary) (excerpts)North Carolina Edenton Intelligencer, 9 April 1788A Citizen of the State of Maryland, Remarks Relative to a Bill of Rights, Philadelphia, 12 April 1788Benjamin Rush to David Ramsay, Charleston Columbian Herald, 14 April 1788 (excerpt)A Citizen of New-York: An Address to the People of the State of New-York, New York, 15 April 1788 (excerpt)A Plebeian: An Address to the People of the State of New-York, New York, 17 April 1788 (excerpt)Fabius III, Pennsylvania Mercury, 17 April 1788 (excerpt)Fabius IV, Pennsylvania Mercury, 19 April 1788 (excerpts)James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, Orange, Va., 22 April 1788 (excerpt)Peter W. Yates to His Friend in the Country, Albany, N.Y., 24 April 1788 (excerpt)George Washington to John Armstrong, Sr., Mount Vernon, Fairfax County, Va., 25 April 1788 (excerpt)A Farmer VII (Part 6), Baltimore Maryland Gazette, 25 April 1788Henry Knox to Marquis de Lafayette, New York, 26 April 1788 (excerpt)Maryland Convention Considers Amendments to Constitution, 26 April 1788Richard Henry Lee to Samuel Adams, Chantilly, Westmoreland County, Va., 28 April 1788George Washington to Marquis de Lafayette, Mount Vernon, Fairfax County, Va., 28 April 1788 (excerpt)Fabius VIII, Pennsylvania Mercury, 29 April 1788 (excerpt)Philodemos, Pennsylvania Gazette, 30 April 1788 (excerpt)Philadelphia Independent Gazetteer, 30 April 1788The Society of Western Gentlemen Revise the Constitution, Virginia Independent Chronicle, 30 April, 7 May 1788 (extra) (excerpts)Address to the Members of the New York and Virginia Conventions, post-30 April 1788 (excerpt)Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, Paris, 2 May 1788 (excerpts)Federal Farmer: An Additional Number of Letters to the Republican, New York, 2 May 1788 (excerpts)Richard Henry Lee to George Mason, Chantilly, Westmoreland County, Va., 7 May 1788 (excerpt)Nathan Dane to Samuel Adams, New York, 10 May 1788 (excerpt)The Federalist’s Political Creed, Philadelphia Independent Gazetteer, 10 May 1788Pennsylvania Carlisle Gazette, 21 May 1788South Carolina Convention Recommends Amendments to Constitution, 23 May 1788Richard Henry Lee to Edmund Pendleton, Chantilly, Westmoreland County, Va., 26 May 1788 (excerpts)George Mason to Thomas Jefferson, Gunston Hall, Fairfax County, Va., 26 May 1788 (excerpt)Thomas Jefferson to Edward Carrington, Paris, 27 May 1788 (excerpt)Publius: The Federalist 84, New York, 28 May 1788 (excerpts)Publius: The Federalist 85, New York, 28 May 1788 (excerpt)An American, Pennsylvania Packet, 31 May 1788Biographical Gazetteer 