The Daily Advertiser

Extract of a letter from Charleston (S. C.) dated June 20th, 1788.

"The procession at our public rejoicings on the adoption of the new Constitution was the grandest ever seen in this country. Our minority went home in good humor, promising to support the new Government. All our old steady patriots are warm in support of it; Mr. Gadsden and Mr. Stevens, though both had retired for some time, came into the Convention to sanction the new Constitution. The former says that, like old Simeon, he is now willing to sing his "Nunc dimittis." The FEDERALIST does honor to your city, and indeed to the United States. All our patriots and literati, in the year 1773, did not understand the principles of Government as well as that single writer. The new Constitution has diffused political knowledge by the discussions, it has occasioned. Compare the present state of the public mind of America, on the subject of Government, with what was its condition previous to the war, and you will be struck with the contrast. If the people elect their best men for the new Congress, I hope for great things from their united wisdom—hitherto the power of doing good has been wanting: I trust we shall soon see better days."