"Friends, and Fellow-Citizens: The period

for a new election of a Citizen, to

Administer the Executive government

of the United States, being not far distant,

and the time actually arrived, when your thoughts must be employed in designating

the person, who is to be cloathed with that important trust . . . However [political

parties] may now and then answer

popular ends, they are likely in

the course of time and things,

to become potent engines, by

which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled

men will be enabled to subvert the power of

the people and to usurp for themselves

the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines

which have lifted

them to unjust dominion. . . "