IV. CONVENTION ELECTIONS

copies of Antifederalist Mercy Warren's "A Columbian Patriot" (CC:
581) and an Antifederal anthology were being sent to the Albany Anti-
Federal Committee for dispersal. The Albany Committee was to receive
380 copies of "A Columbian Patriot" for its own county and another
100 copies each for Montgomery and Washington counties to be dis-
tributed "as early as possible to the one in those Counties, who will
forward them with the most Expedition."
Albany Federal Committee: An Impartial Address, c. 20 April 1788
The full title of this twenty-eight-page pamphlet (Evans 21167) is An Impar-
tial Address, to the Citizens of the City and County of Albany: or the 35 Anti-Federal
Objections Refuted. By the Federal Committee, of the City of Albany. The printer's
colophon reads: "Printed by Charles R. Webster, at his Free Press, No. 36, State-
Street, near the English Church, Albany." (Webster was the last of seventy-
eight men who subscribed their names on the last page of the pamphlet en-
dorsing the Constitution and the committee's response as "fully satisfactory to
us.") The pamphlet is a point-by-point response to the Albany Anti-Federal
Committee Circular, 10 April (above). Antifederalists claimed that Federalists
hoped to have this pamphlet signed by 400 individuals. The Antifederalists
doubted whether they would succeed. For two responses to An Impartial Address,
see Albany Anti-Federal Committee circulars, c. 23 April and c. 28 April (both
below).
AN IMPARTIAL ADDRESS.
We have lately seen, with no small degree of surprize, a publication
which contains thirty-five objections to the New Constitution.
This publication was evidently intended to be dealt out in a private,
underhanded way, by designing persons, a few days previous to the
Election; with a view to prejudice the ignorant and uninformed citizen
against the true interest of his country, and at so critical a time, that
his prejudices might not be removed before he had given his final vote
to condemn the New Government: but its having been accidentally
exposed, has caused it to be circulated earlier than was intended.-We
shall just observe, that it contains not only a variety of the most palpable
improprieties, but also a number of sentiments which, if admitted, must
strike at the root of all government whatever, and leave us nearly in a
state of nature-We well know, that the gentlemen who stile themselves
"Anti-federalists," are in direct opposition to the Union of the States;
but we cannot help expressing a great degree of pain on seeing them
condescend to such low and designing arts, on a subject so sacred as
that of the establishing a Constitution for three millions of their coun-
trymen.-The Federalists have, at their own expence, circulated many
thousand copies of the New Constitution, in three different languages,'
with no other view than that every man may judge for himself-The

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