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Jensen, Merrill; Kaminski, John P.; Saladino, Gaspare J. (ed.) / Ratification of the Constitution by the states: Pennsylvania
2 (1976)
B. The assembly election, 9 October 1787, pp. 173-179
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II. DEBATE OVER CONSTITUTION or absenting themselves from thire Duty when the important affair of the new Plan of government was the object you will See by the in- closed Resolve our Disaprobation of such Conduct and the ticket we intend to run in this place but I have my fears that it will not genrl Carried and that [Thomas] Kennedy & [David] Mitchl will be Chosen again which if they are will be Disgreasfull to the County the plan is univarssally aproved off and I have not the Least Doubt but that it will be aproved off in this State indeed I think that thire Cant bee Devise a Better ones Mr. Donal has done nothing nor appears to make any indistory he wont Sell his wheat under 5/ Pr Bushals and none Can afford to give that price I am sorry to trouble you about this matter but as you Know my Setuation youll Excuse me 13th my fears are realised the County has Sent the Same Creatures too the assembly that Disgreasd themselves and the County in the late as- sembly our ticket failed the same Kind of animals will be Sent to the Convention [Robert] whithill [Jonathan] hoge & [John] Harris are named And I have not the least Doubt of thire Being Choosen what a pack of sorry Scoundrals perhaps Alexander McKieghen [McKeehan] or John moore will be the 4th Convention man the former is Commisr for the County blessed times2 I am much Dilighted with the Prospect of the Eastren people Setling on the west of the ohio I hope that Mr Sims [John Cleves Symmes] will also Succeed they People will be an Excelent Barrieerr to those on the East Side3 James McClean & [James] McCalmont is in the assembly for Franklin County and I Dont Exspect one republican on this Side Susquana only from york County Shou'd be glad to Know the Sucssess the new plan of goverment has had in the Estran States and in that in which Congrass now have thire Seat if aproved by those States I am of opinion that it will be adopted what woud you think of the Publick works for a feadrel town it woud not be a Crime I Sepose to make Such a proposition but it Distroy our hops of haveing it for a College as you are now a Congrass will move in that affair I wish that it was Determined in favr of the College [Dickinson College]. 1. RC (LT), Irvine Papers, PHi. Montgomery, a burgess of Carlisle, was elected to the Assembly in 1782 and 1783. 2. Whitehill, Hoge, and Harris were probably nominated at the Stoney Ridge Convention (Ephraim Blaine to Benjamin Rush, 15 October, II:D below). Hoge and Harris were also nominated at a Cumberland County meeting on 25 October (II:D below). They were elected and voted against ratification. Whether or not 176
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