Excerpt from An Address to the Public: On the Late Dismission of a General Officer

I shall not pretend to any greater degree of correctness than any of my cotemporaries: I was willing only at my first outlet, to give them as it were a pledge of my frankness and ingenuity, avowing openly, that I meant to submit my thoughts to their consideration, and therefore addressing myself to them directly.

The dismission of a general officer from the service, is a transaction, I do not mean to call it, not cognizable at the tribunal of the public, but rather in itself of a private nature, affecting chiefly an individual, and reaching the generality very remotely, if at all, in any of it's consequences. An unfashionable tenet I am well aware in these latitudinarian times, where every man with his self-given authority, readily pronounces his willing judgment, upon all matters indiscriminately, which he is scarce so patient to bear as he is eager to condemn.

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