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MR. HAMILTON, MR. MADISON, AND MR. JAY:

WITH

AN APPENDIX,

CONTAINING

THE LETTERS OF PACIFICUS AND HELVIDIUS,

ON THE

PROCLAMATION OF NEUTRALITY OF 1798;

ALSO, THE

ORIGINAL ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION,

AND THE

CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES,

WITH THE

AMENDMENTS MADE THERETO.

A NEW EDITION.

THE NUMBERS WRITTEN BY MR. MADISON CORRECTED BY HIMSELF.

HALLOWELL, (Me.):

PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY GLAZIER & CO.

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THENEW YORK
PUBLIC LIBRARY
168070

ASTOR, LENOX AND
TILDEN FOUNDATIONS.
1900.

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L. S.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, to wit :

BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the Eighteenth day of May, in the forty-third year of the Independence of the United States of America, Jacob Gideon, junior, of the said district, hath deposited in this office, the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words and figures following, to wit:

"The Federalist, on the New Constitution, written in the year 1788, by Mr. "Hamilton, Mr. Madison, and Mr. Jay: with an appendix, containing the "Letters of Pacificus and Helvidius, on the Proclamation of Neutrality of "1793; also the original Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution of "the United States, with the amendments made thereto. A new edition. "The numbers written by Mr. Madison corrected by himself."

In conformity to the act of the congress of the United States, entitled " An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned."

G. DENEALE,
Clerk of the District of Columbia.

:

PREFATORY REMARKS.

THE present edition of the Federalist contains all the numbers of that work as revised by their authors; and it is the only one to which the remark will apply. Former editions, indeed, it is understood, had the advantage of a revisal from Mr. Hamilton and Mr. Jay, but the numbers written by Mr. Madison still remained in the state in which they originally issued from the press, and contained many inaccuracies. The publisher of this volume has been so fortunate as to procure from Mr. Madison the copy of the work which that gentleman had preserved for himself, with corrections of the papers, of which he is the author, in his own hand. The publication of the Federalist, therefore, may be considered, in this instance, as perfect; and it is confidently presented to the public as a standard edition. Some altercation has occasionally taken place concerning the authorship of certain numbers of the Federalist, a few of those now ascertained to have been written by Mr. Madison having been claimed for Mr. Hamilton. It is difficult to perceive the propriety or utility of such an altercation; for whether we assign the disputed papers to the one or to the other, they are all admitted to be genuine, and there will still remain to either of these gentlemen an unquestioned number sufficient to establish for him a solid reputation for sagacity, wisdom, and patriotism. It is not the extent of a man's writings, but the excellence of them, that constitutes his claim upon his contemporaries and upon posterity for the character of intellectual superiority: and to the reader, the difference in this case is nothing, since he will receive instruction from the perusal, let them have been written by whom they may.

The present moment may be regarded as peculiarly favourable for the republication of this work. Mr. Hamilton, is dead; and both Mr. Jay and Mr. Madison have retired from the busy scenes of life. The atmosphere of political passions through which their principles

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