To Secure the Blessings of Liberty: Selected Writings of Gouverneur Morris

Contents

v Contents Introduction ............ ix Acknowledgments ............ xvii Note on the Texts ............ xix Selected Bibliography ............ xxi 1. To the Inhabitants of the Colony of New-York (1769) ............ 1 2. Political Enquiries (1776) ............ 5 3. Oration on the Necessity for Declaring Independence from Britain (1776) ............ 13 4. Public Letters to the Carlisle Commissioners (1778) ............ 25 To the Carlisle Commissioners, June 20, 1778 ............ 26 To the Earl of Carlisle, July 21, 1778 ............ 34 To the Earl of Carlisle, September 19, 1778 ............ 37 To Sir Henry Clinton, October 20, 1778 ............ 45 5. Proposal to Congress Concerning the Management of the Government (1778) ............ 53 6. Report of the Committee on the Treasury (1778) ............ 67 7. Some Thoughts on the Finances of America (1778) ............ 73 8. To the Quakers, Bethlemites, Moderate Men, Refugees, and Other the Tories Whatsoever, and Wheresoever, Dispersed (1779) ............ 87 9. To Governor Johnstone (1779) ............ 95 10. “An American” Letters on Public Finance for the Pennsylvania Packet (1780) ............ 103 February 17, 1780 ............ 104 February 24, 1780 ............ 110 February 29, 1780 ............ 118 March 4, 1780 ............ 124 March 11, 1780 ............ 131 March 23, 1780 ............ 139 vi contEntS April 11, 1780 ............ 146 April 15, 1780 ............ 154 11. Righteousness Establisheth a Nation (1780) ............ 165 12. Observations on Finances: Foreign Trade and Loans (1781?) ............ 171 13. Ideas of an American on the Commerce Between the United States and French Islands As It May Respect Both France and America (1783) ............ 177 14. Address to the Assembly of Pennsylvania on the Abolition of the Bank of North America (1785) ............ 183 15. The Constitution of the United States (1787) ............ 207 Letter to Congress ............ 221 16. American Finances (1789) ............ 223 17. Observations on Government, Applicable to the Political State of France (1789) ............ 231 18. Memoir Written for the King of France, Respecting the New Constitution (1791) ............ 239 19. Observations on the New Constitution of France (1791) ............ 251 Speech for the King of France ............ 251 Observations on the Constitution ............ 252 20. Notes on the Form of a Constitution for France (1791?) ............ 269 21. Remarks upon the Principles and Views of the London Corresponding Society (1795) ............ 285 22. Oration on the Death of George Washington (1799) ............ 293 23. Speeches in the Senate on the Repeal of the Judiciary Act of 1801 ............ 303 First Speech on the Judiciary Establishment (1802) ............ 304 24. Letters to the New York Evening Post on the Louisiana Purchase (1803) ............ 333 August 30, 1803 ............ 334 December 24, 1803 ............ 339 25. Funeral Oration for Alexander Hamilton (1804) ............ 353 26. Oration on the Love of Wealth (1805) ............ 357 27. Oration on Patriotism (1805) ............ 361 contEntS vii 28. On Prejudice (ca. 1805) ............ 365 29. An Answer to War in Disguise (1806) ............ 369 30. Notes on the United States of America (1806) ............ 405 31. The British Treaty (1807/1808) ............ 423 32. On the Beaumarchais Claim (1807–1808) ............ 473 February 24, 1807 ............ 474 January 11[, 1808] ............ 476 33. To the People of the United States (1810) ............ 485 34. Election Address (1810) ............ 495 35. Letters to the Evening Post on Albert Gallatin’s Plan for Enforcing the Non-Importation Act (1811) ............ 505 December 19, 1811 ............ 506 December 21, 1811 ............ 508 December 23, 1811 ............ 510 December 24, 1811 ............ 512 December 26, 1811 ............ 514 December 27, 1811 ............ 516 36. Erie Canal Commission Report (1812) ............ 519 37. An Address to the People of the State of New York on the Present State of Affairs (1812) ............ 537 38. Discourse Before the New-York Historical Society (1812) ............ 551 39. Oration Before the Washington Benevolent Society (1813) ............ 573 40. Essays for the Examiner (1814) ............ 587 April 9, 1814 ............ 587 May 14, 1814 ............ 605 June 25, 1814 ............ 608 July 23, 1814 ............ 616 41. Oration on Europe’s Deliverance from Despotism (1814) ............ 623 42. To the Legislators of New York (1815) ............ 635 43. An Inaugural Discourse (1816) ............ 641 44. To the Bank Directors of New–York (1816) ............ 655 45. Address on “National Greatness” (no date) ............ 661 Index ............ 665 ...