A Native of Virginia, To the Reader

THE foregoing little piece was intended to counteract the miſrepreſentations of the propoſed Federal Government, which the antifederaliſts have moſt induſtriouſly diſſeminated in the ſouthern counties. The writer had no idea of publiſhing any thing upon the ſubject of the Conſtitution, till a viſit he made to one of thoſe counties, where at the deſire of his friend, he was induced to write in haſte the pamphlet now offered to the public. It was to have been publiſhed time enough to be diſperſed before the elections, but the Printer found it impoſſible to deliver it in time. The primary intention being thus defeated, it would not have been publiſhed at all, had it not been put into the preſs at the time ſtipulated. The writer had neither Mr. Maſon's, Mr. Gerry's, nor Mr. Lee's objections by him: This it is hoped will be a ſufficient apology for its inaccuracies, as far as their objections have been taken notice of. He takes this opportunity of obſerving, that perhaps he, and not Governor Randolph, is miſtaken as to the impeachability of the Senate: He acknowledges that he has never converſed with any member of the late Convention upon the ſubject, though he ſtill thinks that the arguments be has uſed are ſufficiently ſtrong to prove that the Senators neither are nor ought to be impeachable. He does not pretend to have gone fully into the objections which have been raiſed to the government: His deſign was to obviate only the moſt popular, and in a manner as popular as he was able.