Might I be permitted to hazard an opinion it wou'd be the Atlantic only can save us, & that no consideration will be sufficiently powerful to check the extremities to which the temper of this government will carry it, but an apprehension that we may be thrown into the arms of Britain.
Beveridge expresses a belief that only the Atlantic can save the nation from the government's extreme actions.
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When we consult the common good, we consult our own." In such considerations were found the greatest security from an improper exercise of power.
Indeed, he thought them only "an experiment on the American mind to see how far it will bear an avowed violation of the constitution.
Heart-breaking and pitiful was the aspect of these soldiers of liberty.
The Constitution's enemies, thus far out-pointed by its perfectly trained and harmonious supporters, could delay no longer.
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