1. DEBATE OVER CONSTITUTION

through every vicissitude of fortune, were the firmest and most useful
supporters of the American Revolution.
(a) History of Scotland, vol. 2, page 29 [8], 299.5
(b) History of England, vol. 4, page 131, 132.6
1. On 23 November the Daily Advertiser announced that "Detector" would appear
"tomorrow." On 26 November "Detector"-a reply to "An Observer," New York Journal,
19 November (above) -was reprinted in the New York Journal preceded by this statement
from "A Reader": "By inserting the DETECTOR, in reply to AN OBSERVER, which orig-
inated in your DAILY PATRIOTIC REGISTER of Monday last, you will oblige many, and
greatly evince your Impartiality."
2. See "Publius," The Federalist 5, Independent Journal, 10 November (CC:252).
3. The first five numbers of The Federalist all emphasized the importance of Union.
4. See, for example, "Centinel" I, Philadelphia Independent Gazetteer, 5 October, at note
3 (CC:133, p. 330). For the "Centinel" essays, see also "New York Reprinting of the
Centinel Essays," 17 October 1787-12 April 1788 (above).
5. William Robertson (1721-1793), The History of Scotland . . . [1542-1603] in The
Works of William Robertson, D.D.... (12 vols., Edinburgh, 1818), III, Book VIII, 193, 194,
195. "Detector" added the capital letters. Robertson's two-volume history first appeared
in 1759 in London.
6. Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774), The History of England, from the Earliest Times to the
Death of George H1 (4 vols., London, 1771), IV, 131-32. "Detector" added the italics and
the capital letters.
Publius: The Federalist 11 (Alexander Hamilton)
New York Independent Journal, 24 November 1787
Union will promote commerce and lead to establishment of a navy. For text,
see CC:291. For reprintings, see Appendix IV, below.
A Querist
New York Journal, 24 November 1787
MR. GREENLEAF, A gentleman rented a house for one hundred years,
and agreed to pay down 501. and to pay 501. for it every second year.
That if it was not demanded when due, it should not be paid; also, if
any dispute arose respecting the contract, the tenant was to appoint his
own judge to settle it finally.
The third year the second 501. was demanded-being due that year
by contract. The tenant refuses to pay it, and beginning with 1787, asks
how many second years there are in one hundred years-The propri-
etor answers, every other year, or one year intervening between 1787
and 1789, and so on, will solve the question. But, answers the tenant,
in a series of numbers, say from one to one hundred-can you find,
making one the datum, more than one second number, which imme-
diately follows number one.

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