In the name of human and divine benevolence, is ſuch a ſyſtem as this to be recommended to Americans, in this age of the world? Human nature is as incapable now of going through revolutions with temper and ſobriety, with patience and prudence, or without fury and madneſs, as it was among the Greeks ſo long ago. The lateſt revolution that we read of was conduced, at leaſt on one ſide, in the Grecian ſtyle, with laconic energy, and with a little attic ſalt; at leaſt, without too much patience, foreſight, and prudence, on the other.—Without three orders, and an effectual balance between them, in every American conſtitution, it muſt be deſtined to frequent unavoidable revolutions: if they are delayed a few years, they muſt come, in time. The United States are large and populous nations, in compariſon of the Grecian commonwealths, or even the Swiſs cantons; and are growing every day more diſproportionate, and therefore leſs capable of being held together by ſimple governments. Countries that increaſe in population ſo rapidly as the States of America did, even during ſuch an impoveriſhing and deſtructive war as the laſt was, are not to be bound long with ſilken threads: lions, young or old, will not be bound by cobwebs.—It would be better for America, it is nevertheleſs agreed, to ring all the changes with the whole ſet of bells, and go through all the revolutions of the Grecian ſtates, rather than eſtabliſh an abſolute monarchy among them, notwithſtanding all the great and
