or collectively.  He who says I will be a rogue when I act in company with a hundred others, but an honest man when I act alone, will be believed in the former assertion, but not in the latter.  I would say with the poet, ’Hie niger est; hunc tu, Romane, caveto.’  If the morality of one man produces a just line of conduct in him, acting individually, why should not the morality of one hundred men produce a just line of conduct in them, acting together?  But I indulge myself in these reflections because my own feelings run me into them; with you they were always acknowledged.  Let us hope that our new government will take some other occasion to show, that they mean to proscribe no virtue from the canons of their conduct with other nations.  In every other instance, the new government has ushered itself to the world as honest, masculine, and dignified.  It has shown genuine dignity, in my opinion, in exploding adulatory titles; they are the offerings of abject baseness, and nourish that degrading vice in the people.

I must now say a word on the declaration of rights, you have been so good as to send me.  I like it, as far as it goes; but I should have been for going further.  For instance, the following alterations and additions would have pleased me.  Article 4.  The people shall not be deprived of their right to speak, to write, or otherwise to publish any thing but false facts affecting injuriously the life, liberty, property, or reputation of others, or affecting the peace of the confederacy with foreign nations.  Article 7.  All facts put in issue before any judicature, shall be tried by jury, except, 1. in cases of admiralty jurisdiction, wherein a foreigner shall be interested; 2. in cases cognizable before a court martial, concerning only the regular-officers and soldiers of the United States, or members of the militia in actual service in time of war or insurrection; and 3. in impeachments allowed by the constitution.  Article 8.  No person shall be held in confinement more than ------ days after he shall have demanded and been refused a writ of habeas corpus by the judge appointed by law, nor more than ------ days after such a writ shall have been served on the person holding him in confinement, and no order given on due examination for his remandment or discharge, nor more than ------ hours in any place at a greater distance than ------ miles from the usual residence of some judge authorized to issue the writ of habeas corpus; nor shall that writ be suspended for any term exceeding one year, nor in any place more than ------ miles distant from the State or encampment of enemies or of insurgents.  Article 9.  Monopolies may be allowed to persons for their own productions in literature, and their own inventions in the arts, for a term not exceeding ------ years, but for no longer term, and no other purpose.  Article 10.  All troops of the United States shall stand ipso facto disbanded, at the expiration of the term for which their pay and