Cato II  New York Journal  October 11, 1787   “Remember, 0 my
friends! the laws, the rights, “The generous plan of power
deliver’d down, “By your renown’d Forefathers;  “So dearly
bought, the price of so much blood! “O let it never perish in
your hands!  “But piously transmit it to your children.”  The
object of my last address to you was to engage your
dispassionate consideration of the new Federal government; to
caution you against precipitancy in the adoption of it; to
recommend a correction of its errors, if it contained any; to
hint to you the danger of an easy perversion of some of its
powers; to solicit you to separate yourselves from party, and to
be independent of and uninfluenced by any in your principles of
politics: and, that address was closed with a promise of future
observations on the same subject which should be justified by
reason and truth. Here I intended to have rested the
introduction, but a writer under the signature of CAESAR, in Mr.
Childs’s paper of the 1st instant, who treats you wi