The New York Packet

A correspondent observes, that, as there is so much frailty in human nature, the people, from whom all power is derived under a pure republican system of government, when they are about to invest a man with power and authority, even for the necessary purposes of government, should be careful that it be strictly guarded and limited; so that it be not abused to the oppression of those who conferred it.—Hence, from neglect or inattention in fixing those essential checks and restraints on rulers and governors, it is that we behold in the world so small a portion of mankind who are not tyrants or slaves, oppressors or oppressed. Let America for ever boast, that her subjects freely and fully enjoy liberty and property, and all those natural rights which God and nature assigned to them.