Excerpt from An Oration, Pronounced, on the Fourth July, 1816, Before the Inhabitants of the Town of Boston, at the Request of the SelectmenA federative system of sovereign states naturally tending to anarchy among themselves produces occa sions for party-conict peculiar to their confederacy. Yet while their true interest is most surely obtained by the union of all the only remaining subject of contest - possession of the brief authority of ruling un der the constitution, can hardly endanger the duration of that constitution; because the disappointment of to day is ever cheered with the hope of success to-morrow. Power cannot always rest in any one section. Jeal onsy will supply a motive to opposition, should 110 other exist, which will forever give to power in our nation, a perambulatory character, that will preclude the acquisition, of a destructive inuence by any one state, and cherish the hope of possessing power in ai most every other. There is therefore a sufficient coun terpoise to regulate this otherwise alarming tendency of the states to anarchy among themselves.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.

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