COMMENTARIES, 24JUNE-2 JULY 1788

Obstinacy of certain desperados-I do not apply this term to those who
have taken a lead in debate in opposition to the constitution, but to
others who-but prudence dictates that I should not too strongly mark
the men I allude to.-
Colo: Hamilton is well, so am I, and both of us Join in love to you
and all our friends-
[P.S.] pray Let our friends be prudent in rejoicing on this Occasion.-
It will tend more to Accomplish our public & private interest than a
Contrary conduct
New York Independent Journal, 2 July 1788
By a person who arrived in town last night from Philadelphia,20 just
as this Paper was going to press, we were informed, "That an express
had arrived at Philadelphia, betwixt six and seven o'clock on Monday
evening [30 June], with the important intelligence that Virginia had
ADOPTED the New Constitution; in consequence of which, all the bells
in the city were rung, and continued till twelve o'clock that night."
These are all the particulars we could learn, but we hope this day's post
will bring a confirmation of the above very important information.
New York Journal, 3 July 178821
Convention of Virginia.
Yesterday morning Col. Henley returned from Virginia, to which
place he was expedited on Wednesday last with the intelligence of the
ratification of the new constitution by New-Hampshire.
Immediately on the arrival of Col. Henley, William Livingston, Esq. sat off
for Poughkeepsie with the intelligence.
Colonel Henley, having arrived at Alexandria, met an express bound
to New-York, with the intelligence of the RATIFICATION of the new
constitution by the state of VIRGINIA. This interesting circumstance
rendered Colonel Henley's further pursuit fruitless; he therefore re-
turned, with the same zealous expedition he went, to bring the tidings
to the anxious expectants in New-York, and arrived here, at THREE
o'CLOCK yesterday morning.
On this occasion the bells of the city were set a ringing immediately,
and at FIVE o'clock TEN guns were fired in honor of the ten states
which have adopted the constitution.
The purport of the Virginia intelligence, is, that after a session of
eighteen days, in which the merits of the constitution were fully inves-
tigated, clause by clause, both parties being equally zealous in the
cause, speaking freely, and discussing (sometimes) dispassionately, on

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