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Jensen, Merrill; Kaminski, John P.; Saladino, Gaspare J. (ed.) / Ratification of the Constitution by the states: Pennsylvania
2 (1976)
The ratification of the Constitution by Pennsylvania, pp. [29]-[52]
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the Division of Public Records of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, are invaluable for the study of opposition to the Constitution outside Philadelphia. The William Irvine Papers in the Historical Society of Pennsylvania contain important letters concerning the opposition, especially in Cumberland County. Other valuable collections in the Historical Society of Pennsylvania are those of such supporters of the Constitution as Tench Coxe, Levi Hollingsworth, and James Wilson. The Pemberton Papers contain material on Quaker opposition to the slave-trade clause of the Con- stitution. The Library Company of Philadelphia has the papers of Benjamin Rush; and the papers of Robert Aitken, a Philadelphia printer and bookseller, which contain information on the dissemination of Anti- federalist literature. The Robert R. Logan Collection of John Dickin- son Papers contains letters concerning Dickinson's publication of the "Letters of Fabius." The library of the Independence National His- torical Park has Jasper Yeates's notes of debates in the state Convention. Several libraries and a private collector outside Pennsylvania have useful material. The Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress has the Shippen Family Papers, which include letters of William Shippen, Jr., a Philadelphia Antifederalist who was married to the sister of Richard. Henry Lee of Virginia. The Rare Book Room has a large collection of pamphlets and broadsides. The William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan and H. Bartholomew Cox of Washington, D.C., each own a part of Anthony Wayne's notes of debates in the state Convention. The Timothy Pickering Papers in the Massachusetts Historical Society contain information on Pickering's support of the Constitution and on attitudes toward the Constitution in Luzerne County. Newspapers and Magazines The most important sources for the history of the debate over the Constitution in Pennsylvania are the fifteen newspapers and two magazines that were published in the state at one time or another between September 1787 and June 1788. Ten of the newspapers and the two magazines were published in Philadelphia. The Philadelphia newspapers appeared daily, semiweekly, triweekly, and weekly. The Philadelphia dailies were Eleazer Oswald's The Independent Gazetteer; or, the Chronicle of Freedom and John Dunlap and David C. Claypoole's The Pennsylvania Packet, and Daily Advertiser. The Packet, a Federalist newspaper, contained little original material about the Constitution. Oswald printed both Federalist and Anti- federalist pieces in the Gazetteer until mid-November. Thereafter 37 SOURCES
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