ith each other. but there is still an undercurrent at work by which， if not seasonably checked， the worst apprehensions of our antifederal patriots will be realized， and not only will the state authorities be overshadowed by the great increase of power in the executive department of the general government， but the character of that government， if not its designation， be essentially and radically changed. this state of things has been in part effected by causes inherent in the constitution and in part by the never-failing tendency of political power to increase itself. by making the president the sole distributer of all the patronage of the government the framers of the constitution do not appear to have anticipated at how short a period it would become a formidable instrument to control the free operations of the state governments. of trifling importance at first， it had early in mr. jefferson's administration become so powerful as to create great alarm in the mind of that patriot from the potent influence it might exert in controlling the freedom of the elective franchise. if such could have then been the effects of its influence， how much greater must be the danger at this time， quadrupled in amount as it certainly is and more completely under the control of the executive will than their construction of their powers allowed or the forbearing characters of all the early presidents permitted them to make. but it is not by the extent of its patronage alone that the executive d
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