Their fears were for the weak, not for the strong; not for the people of the United States in the aggregate, but for the Southern States in the minority; and especially for the State of Virginia. They feared, as the burning eloquence of Henry, and Mason, and Monroe, and Grayson evinced, that the new Government would “operate as a faction of seven States to oppress six;” that the Northern majority would, sooner or later, trample on the Southern minority.
