Excerpt from The Conduct of the Administration Reprinted From the Boston Daily Advertiser and Patriot
In less than two months from this time, the country will pass through an important political crisis. A community of more than twelve million souls will be called on to elect, by a nearly universal suffrage, a chief Executive Magistrate, who is to exercise over them most of the powers that belong in other countries to the office of an hereditary sovereign. A proceeding of this kind is entirely without parallel in the previous history of the world, and were it to happen in some remote foreign nation, would be justly entitled to profound and anxious attention, as a mere experiment in the science of civil polity. When we recollect that this great and curious experiment is to be performed upon the living body politic of which we are ourselves members; that the fortunes of our country, and with them our own and those of our friends and families are involved to a considerable extent, in its results; - we shall perhaps consider it not unnatural to suspend for a few moments the ordinary routine of private business, and inquire with some seriousness into the nature of the duties which the crisis in question will devolve upon us as electors and citizens.
We have said that there is nothing in the history of the world at all parallel to this singular and imposing scene. There have been, no doubt, and still are, other communities organized on the principle of an elective chief magistracy. Such was the case with the great Republics of Rome and Carthage, with most of the democracies of ancient Greece and modern Italy, with Switzerland and Holland, and at one period with the unfortunate Kingdom of Poland.
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