Mr. Jay's Second Letter on Dawson's Introduction to the Federalist: Exposing Its Falsification of the History of the Constitution; Its Libels on ... Efforts by Traitors at Home, and Foes Abroad,

Excerpt from Mr. Jay's Second Letter on Dawson's Introduction to the Federalist: Exposing Its Falsification of the History of the Constitution; Its Libels on Duane, Livingston, Jay and Hamilton; And Its Relation to Recent Efforts by Traitors at Home, and Foes Abroad, to Maintain the Rebel Doctrine of State Sovereignty, for the Subvers
Sirs, - When in February I wrote my first letter on Mr. Dawson's edition of the Federalist, I had been chiefly struck with the instances to which I called attention, of the singular misappreciation exhibited, in the "Introduction," of the character of the work, its extraordinary misrepresentation of the course pursued by the friends of the Constitution, and its inexplicable violation of historic truth in regard to the most familiar incidents in the life of my grandfather.
In the face of the fact apparent to every student of American history, and which is thus stated by John Adams, "Mr. Jay had as much influence in the preparatory measures for digesting the Constitution and in obtaining its adoption as any man in the nation," a fact which has been eloquently dwelt upon by Mr. Webster in his well known letter to the Honorable James A. Hamilton and other citizens of Westchester county, the declaration of Mr. Dawson that Jay found in the Constitution "little that he could commend, and nothing for which he could labor," seemed to me to exhibit a very remarkable amount either of ignorance or of malice.
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