CITY AND COUNTY OF NEW YORK, 21 MARCH 1788

ficial to the interest of the United States; in the management and pros-
ecution of which, he had a principal share. Mr. Jay's legal knowledge is
incontrovertible; his arguments are methodically arranged and drawn
forth with judgment; he reasons logically and well, and excels most men
in dissecting the arguments of his opponents, and rendering them futile
and nugatory; he is able and pointed in reply, and possesses the powers
of persuasion in an eminent degree; in short, Mr. Jay is endowed with
the necessary qualifications to constitute a Statesman.
Mr. HOBART, served his country during the war, in Congress, Con-
vention and Committee, with great integrity and zeal; he is a gentleman
of considerable political abilities, and experienced in public business,
and an upright Judge.
Though Mr. DUANE was foremost on the list of preferment under
the British Government, in the late Province of New-York, before the
war, and at the same time perfectly sensible, that he would secure a
very large landed property, worth at least 100,000 1. or the value
thereof, by adhering to that government, which by taking a different
part he must inevitably have lost; yet he took a decided part in favor
of his country, and has by the revolution lost all that great property.
He has been indefatigable in the service of his country as a member
of Congress during almost the whole of the war. Mr. Duane's legal
knowledge is universally acknowledged. As a judge he gives general
satisfaction to the public, and is much esteemed and respected by the
gentlemen of the bar; his manners are easy and his private character
irreproachable. Mr. Duane is a good politician; he reasons closely, and
with perspicuity and judgment, possessing the powers of persuasion in
no small degree; his arguments are well calculated both to conciliate
and enforce conviction; and as a man of business, he is excelled by
none in this country.
The publications of Col. HAMILTON, in defence of the liberties of
America previous to the late war, when a youth in the college of New-
York; his great millitary services, and the confidential line in which he
stood with that good and great man General WASHINGTON, during
that war, are indubitable proofs of his virtue. As a lawyer, a politician,
and a statesman, Col. Hamilton is certainly great; as a public speaker
he is clear, pointed and sententious; he excels most men in reply, being
possess'd of the powers of reasoning in an eminent degree, and he is
endowed with a most benevolent and good heart.
Mr. ROOSEVELT is an honest, virtuous and respectable gentleman,
possessed of a large property in this city, which he risked in the service
of his country during the war, and by which he suffered largely.
Mr. LOW, who quitted all his relations in New-York and Jersey, and
joined the friends to his country in the late war, is a gentleman of

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