Boston American Herald :
I would beg leave to remark, that Publius has been very unfortunate in selecting these extracts as a case in point,
to convince the people of America of the benefits they would derive from a union, under such
a government as would be effected by the new system. It is a certainty, that when the union was
the subject of debate in the Scottish legislature, some of their most sensible and disinterested
nobles, as well as commoners! (who were not corrupted by English gold), violently opposed the union, and predicted
that the people of Scotland would, in fact, derive no advantages from a consolidation of government with England....
Virginia Journal and Alexandria Advertiser:
The time in which the constitution or government of a nation undergoes any particular change, is always
interesting and critical. Enemies are vigilant, allies are in suspense, friends hesitating between hope
and fear; and all men are in eager expectation to see what such a change may produce. But the state of
our affairs at present, is of such moment, as even to arouse the dead....
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Independent Gazetteer:
The evils of anarchy have been portrayed with all the imagery of language in the growing colors
of eloquence; the affrighted mind is thence led to clasp the new Constitution as the instrument of
deliverance, as the only avenue to safety and happiness. To avoid the possible and transitory evils
of one extreme, it is seduced into the certain and permanent misery necessarily attendant on the other.
A state of anarchy from its very nature can never be of long continuance; the greater its violence the shorter
the duration. Order and security are immediately sought by the distracted people beneath the shelter of equal
laws and the salutary restraints of regular government....
Norfolk and Portsmouth Register:
.... By the Articles of Confederation, the congress of the United States was vested with powers for conducting the common concerns of the continent.
They had the sole and exclusive right and power of determining on peace and war; of sending and receiving ambassadors; of entering into treaties
and alliances; and of pointing out the respective quotas of men and men which each state should furnish. But it was expressly provided that the
money to be supplied by each state should be raised by the authority and direction of the legislature thereof....
 
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