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138 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-