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The New York Journal, And Daily Patriotic Register
New York, New York County, New York
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A letter to Mr. Greenleaf corrects a misrepresentation in Mr. Childs' paper of Mr. Laning's speech at the state convention. It quotes Laning arguing that hostility between state and general governments is inevitable, referencing Hamilton's views from the Philadelphia convention that state governments should be subverted to corporate rights.
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Mr. GREENLEAF,
In MR. CHILDS' paper of the first instant, containing a most glaring misrepresentation of Mr. Laning in the Convention of this state, you have at bottom the sentiments delivered by Mr. Laning in his own words:-
After observing, that it was admitted by an honorable gentleman from New-York, (meaning Mr. Hamilton) that state governments were necessary in every extent-that that gentleman had urged several forcible reasons why they ought to exist and that he had treated the idea, of the general government being hostile to those of the states, as chimerical, Mr. Laning proceeded,
"I am persuaded that a hostility between the state and general governments will exist-this, sir, was the received opinion in the late convention at Philadelphia. That honorable gentleman was then fully convinced, that it would exist; and argued with much decision, and great plausibility that the state governments ought to be subverted, at least so far as to leave them only corporate rights, and that even then they would endanger the existence of the general government;-but the honorable gentleman's reflections have doubtless induced him to correct that sentiment."
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Mr. Greenleaf
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corrects a misrepresentation of mr. laning's speech in the state convention by quoting his assertion that hostility between state and general governments is inevitable, contrasting it with mr. hamilton's earlier views from the philadelphia convention advocating subversion of state governments.
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