8vo (213 x 132 mm). 8pp. (Some spotting and browning.) Stab-sewn and tipped into modern marbled paper wrappers. 

FIRST EDITION, Evans's FIRST ISSUE, but Sabin's second issue, with "By a Federalist" in black letter type and with 33 lines on p.1 (including two rules). Attributed to Noah Webster by Skeel-Carpenter, who calls for at least 6 printings.  Webster's rebuttal, signed "Aristedes," to a pamphlet written by Hamilton in 1800 criticizing President John Adams, “a scathing attack on Hamilton for his secret maneuvers within the Adams administration & his support of a standing army" (Skeel-Carpenter). 

Webster charges that Hamilton has succumbed to “the secret enmity which has long rankled in his breast," citing as examples situations which are “mostly of a private and trifling nature.” Webster charges Hamilton that his "policy and your conduct have been the principal causes of the division among Federal men.” Evans 39045; Sabin 102361; Skeel-Carpenter 727. VERY RARE: We trace no copy of any issue of this pamphlet at auction in the last 30 years.