to humanity. Thefe jars, fuch is the excellent temperament of our constitution, have done, and will, probably, do very little mischief. Without materially checking the neceffary operations of government, they prevent the minds of men from stagnating in a state so full of profperity as our prefent; and keep alive the fpirit of liberty, at a time when the real and undisturbed enjoyment of that invaluable bleffing might, perhaps, without this fpur, abate fomething of that jealous and anxious zeal for its preservation, which, when once extinguished, is not so eafily kindled. There are times, when the fpirit of liberty muft owe something to the spirit of faction.