SYNOPTICAL TABLE OF CONTENTS. 1. introduction,. I. GENERAL INTRODUCTION,.. II. "THE UTILITY OF THE UNION TO YOUR [the People of the State of New York] POLITICAL PROSPERITY,". 2. in its political relations with foreign nations,. Essay. Page .II. 6 6 .III. 12 A. by securing it against dangers from foreign arms and influence, 12 13 a. violations of compacts and treaties,. 13 A. by securing a more perfect administration of government,... 13 a. by the employment of better men than those employed in State governments,.. 13 b. by an uniform interpretation of the provisions of those compacts and treaties,.. 14 c. by avoiding the local temptation to bad faith to which a single State may yield,. 14 d. by avoiding local prejudices to which a single State may be subject,.... 14 b. direct and unlawful violence,.. 15 B. through the greater ability which it will afford to settle ami cably those causes of just war,....... 16 a. in the absence of local pride and prejudices,. 16 b. in the greater strength of the States when united,....... 16 c. through its removal beyond the influence of unjust causes, IV. 17 a. the superior power of neighboring nations,.. 17 b. the jealousy of foreign powers from successful trade,... B. by securing it from similar influences in the several States, if disunited,.. 18 V. 22 C. by preventing European alliances with rival States or confederacies, 3. in its political relations with the Peoples of other States,.. VI. 27 A by securing it from inter-State hostilities,. A. the danger of hostilities arising between "independent, unconnected sovereignties," a. through love of power,. b. through jealousy of power,. c. through competitions of commerce,. d. through individual passions and influences,. 26 27 27 28 28 28 28 G. Shays and the rebellion in Massachusetts referred to,.. 30 B. objections of anti-constitutionists answered,. 30 30 30 30 31 31 31 31 31 31 32 c. an appeal to the People, founded on these examples,... 32 c. the inducements which the disunited States could have to make war on each other considered,...... a. the same which have produced wars elsewhere, b. special causes within themselves,.. A. unadjusted territorial disputes,. a. introductory remarks,.... b. crown-lands, within the States,. c. western lands,... d. Wyoming lands,. e. New Hampshire grants,. B. commercial rivalry,... a. disregard of local revenue laws generally,... VII. 34 34 34 34 34 34 35 36 36 37 ... 37 b. jealousy of New York in New Jersey and Connecticut, 38 A. standing armies were not created in ancient Greece,... 45 Essay. Page. B. the impotency of the army in Great Britain,. No. VIII. 46 d. the general subject discussed, and the value of the Union enforced,.... 47 4. in affording a barrier to domestic faction and insurrection,...IX. 48 A. liability of republics to experience these troubles,.......... B. they afford arguments for the advocates of despotism,.. 48 49 C. the utility of a confederacy to guard against these troubles, 50 A. resorted to in other ages and countries,.. 50 B. approved by most authors on the subject of politics,.. 50 a. Montesquieu's sentiments concerning extended territories, under republican governments, misrepresented by the Anti-fœderalists,.... b. his views on a confederate republic,. c. distinction between a confederacy and a consolidation of the States discussed,... a. what a confederacy is said to be,.. b. what a confederacy really is,... A. the proposed Constitution a confederate republican form of government,... B. the Lycian Confederacy a confederate republic,. 54 D. the propensity of popular governments to faction,.. .X. 55 a. in the destruction of the liberty of the People,. . . . . . . . 56 56 B. by preventing the concentration of those influences,...... 60 H. the advantage of a representative government over a democracy in curing the mischiefs of faction,..... I. the advantages of an extended republic over a small one, in like cases,...... 5. in their commercial relations with foreign nations,. .XI. 64 A. the growing commerce of America has excited the jealousy of foreign powers,. B. the necessity of uniformity of action in America in order to secure the benefits arising from its own markets,.... ... 65 C. the establishment of a Foederal navy another resource for commanding the respect of foreign nations,... 60 62 65 67 Essay. Page D. "a steady adherence to the Union" necessary to secure all the commercial advantages which America possesses,.... No. XI. 67 E. the effects of disunion on the commerce of America,. 68 A. the rivalship of the different parts would frustrate all their natural advantages for promoting commerce,... 68 B. it would become "a prey to the wanton intermeddling of all nations who are at war with each other,"...... a. neutrality is respected only when it can be adequately defended,.... 68 c. it would produce "little arts of little politicians to control or vary the irresistible course of nature" in the growth of our commerce,.. .... 68 D. it would invite foreign nations to interfere with our rights, 68 a. by prescribing the conditions of our political existence,... 68 b. by embarrassing our commerce,... 68 c. by interfering with the commercial rights of the Union, which had been then acquired,........ 69 A. in the fisheries,...... 69 a. the importance of the fisheries to France and Britain, 69 b. our "decided mastery therein, a subject of impor ii. in affording a nursery for the mercantile marine,.. 69 69 69 69 B. in the navigation of the western lakes,. d. their importance in promoting the establishment of a Foederal navy,. . . . . . 70 69 C. in the navigation of the Mississippi River,. 69 69 70 a. the jealousy of Spain on that subject,.. 6. in promoting the establishment of a Fœderal navy,. A. such a navy would be mutually advantageous to all the States, 70 7. in their commercial relations with the Peoples of other States,... 70 A. it would promote the interchange of their respective productions,.... 70 B. "the veins of commerce would be replenished and invigorated,...... .... 70 3. a greater variety would be afforded to the commerce of the country,.... 71 D. the aggregate balance of trade would be increased, in favor of America,. . . . . E. objection, concerning the necessary course of inter-State commerce, in any event, answered,... 71 F. the assumed superiority of Europe referred to, and Americans appealed to to disprove it,. 71 8. in respect to revenue,.. .XII. 73 A. commerce the most productive source of national wealth,.... 73 |