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but tories hereafter into any Department of the Government." 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 illuminated 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 stockjobbing influence and the prejudice of our prejudiced Anglo-men here that it is regarded as wise in the Senate to keep out of office everyone who has spoken disrespectfully of the treaty lately made or Mr. Jay. In the majority of the Senate are gentlemen who are personally acquainted 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 firmness. 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 administration any man who may refuse to go all lengths with it; that our 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 political honesty they were so rich in when I knew them, this sort of doctrine will shock them. They will exclaim, what political blasphemy! What effrontery! But here, where stockjobbers, speculators and American Anglo-men have duped many of our honest, un-