The whole essay includes several reasons for limiting federal power and protecting the Bills of Rights of the states. Several calls for defending the people and the states from the new government are in the Antifederalist papers .
And as Brutus points out, that ONLY a BoR that applies to both the State and the Federal truly protects the Citizen from encroachment.
Not a very good try at twisting a VERY clear quote as Brutus mentions BOTH the Federal and the State in the excerpt above.
What does it matter if a tyrant be 1000 miles away, or ten miles away? A tyrant is a tyrant. They knew this. You SHOULD know this unless you are an aspiring sycophant OF a tyrant. Then you have all kinds of excuses for wanting to circumvent the Rights of the sovereign individual like you are so assiduously trying to do...