While serving in the government in Philadelphia, Jefferson and political protegee Congressman James Madison founded the "National Gazette" in 1791, along with poet and writer Phillip Freneau, in an effort to counter Hamilton's Federalist policies, which Hamilton was promoting through the influential Federalist newspaper the "Gazette of the United States". The "National Gazette "made particular criticism of the policies promoted by Hamilton, often through anonymous essays signed by the pen name "Brutus" at Jefferson's urging, which were actually written by Madison. In the Spring of 1791, Jefferson and Madison took a vacation to Vermont. Jefferson had been suffering from migraines and he was tired of Hamilton in-fighting.