He was educated a federalist, but early in life found himself acting against the federal party.

Although a Federalist and with his party opposed to the war, he urged the enlistment of volunteers for the defense of Baltimore, and was among the first to enroll his name.

He was called a Federalist, but the party distinctions of that time were not clearly defined, and Mr. Buchanan's political principles as a national statesman were yet to be formed.

He is a federalist, and does not share in the unitarian view which prevails with almost all the other prominent Italian statesmen, and which at this moment appears to be the only system that can create a strong, united, independent Italy.

It is curious to read the high Federalist papers in the first days of their sorrow.

The Federalist opinion of the principles of the Administration party was avowed with equal frankness in their papers.

In the forty-third number of the "Federalist," Mr. Madison says: "The indispensable necessity of complete authority at the seat of government, carries its own evidence with it.

* * FEDERALIST, No. 42.

* * FEDERALIST, No. 54.

To these we have added all that is found, on the same topic, in the Debates of the several State Conventions which ratified the Constitution: together with so much of the Speech of Luther Martin before the Legislature of Maryland, and of the Federalist, as relate to our subject; with some extracts, also, from the Debates of the first Federal Congress on Slavery.

FEDERALIST, No. 42

Federalist party, Ferdinand, King, aids Columbus.

Selections from The Federalist by Hamilton, Madison, and Jay.

The Enduring Federalist.

Then Luther Martin, of Maryland, attacked its authenticity, partly because he was Cresap's son-in-law, and partly because he was a Federalist and a bitter opponent of Jefferson.

The paper was at first decidedly Federalist in sentiment.

A few of the coolest and most intelligent men approved it, and rugged old Humphrey Marshall, the Federalist Senator from Kentucky, voted for its ratification; but the general feeling against it was intense.

The anti-Federalist party was on the whole the party of weakness and disorder, the party that was clamorous and unruly, but ineffective in carrying out a sustained policy, whether of offense or of defence, in foreign affairs.

They were quite right in their feeling of hostility to England, and one of the fundamental and fatal weaknesses of the Federalists was the Federalist willingness to submit to England's aggressions without retaliation; but the Jeffersonians had no gift for government, and were singularly deficient in masterful statesmen of the kind imperatively needed by any nation which wishes to hold an honorable place among other nations.

They were appointed by Federalist administrations, and were entirely out of sympathy with the Western people among whom they lived.

" #Arguments For and Against Adoption.#The Federalist party was composed of those men who were desirous of a strong central government, and for this reason favored the Constitution.

Their arguments appeared in a remarkable collection of eighty-five essays, called the "Federalist," written by Alexander Hamilton in company with John Jay and James Madison.

The manifest necessity of such a power may be best stated by using Hamilton's own words (Federalist, 30): "What would avail restrictions on the authority of the State legislatures without some constitutional mode of enforcing the observance of them?

It was once a question of national policy, a point of difference between Republican and Federalist, whether the United States ought to buy this little strip of semi-submerged land, or whether it would not be more righteous to steal it.

FEDERALIST, a name in the United States for a supporter of the Union and its integrity as such; a party which was formed in 1788, but dissolved in 1820; has been since applied to a supporter of the integrity of the Union against the South in the late Civil War.