The Daily Advertiser

NEW-YORK, June 2.

Extract of a Letter from a Gentleman in West-Chester County, to his Friend in this City, dated May 31, 1788.

I have the satisfaction of informing you that upon canvassing the votes taken at the late election in this county, it appears, that the FEDERAL TICKET, both as to the Convention and Assembly, has prevailed by a majority of near two to one. So decisive a victory, I frankly confess, has exceeded my most sanguine expectations; as the Federalists had every difficulty to encounter which the influence of office could throw in their way.—The Judges of the County Court, who have ever since the peace governed the politics of the County agreeably to their instructions from their Commander in Chief, were not only in nomination by the Antifederalists, but were also indefatigable in their exertions to prejudice the minds of the people against the Constitution; one of the Judges in particular, by the workings of his zeal, became so enthusiastic as repeatedly to declare in different parts of the county, that he would freely draw his sword to prevent the adoption of the Constitution by this State, though he was not known in the course of the late war to be very ambitious of hazarding the safety of his person. The Federalists had also to contend with the influence of the Sheriff and some of his Deputies, who were constantly patrolling the county, and scattering the usual objections against the Constitution. In the execution of this patriotic enterprise, you may be assured that the official bounty bestowed last winter at Poughkeepsie, has not been treated with ingratitude. To the official influence already mentioned, I may truly add that of two men residing in the upper part of the County, who commenced Federalists, but by the magic touch of official promises, said to have been made to them at the last sitting of the Legislature, they were metamorphosed into the most violent Anti-federalists. The fidelity and industry with which they have performed their engagements will, I presume, justly entitle them to the boons they expect under the present administration. Such was the influence brought into action against the federal ticket: But the great body of the people of the County having seen for some time past, that the views of their rulers were directed to private, not to public objects, had the boldness to think and to act for themselves.—They examined the Constitution with candor, and found that it would not oblige them to part with any new rights, but would only transfer to the General Legislature of the Union, rights now existing in the Legislature of this State. This transfer they conceive to be a mere matter of expediency, and from a comparison of the proceedings of the Legislature of this State, with those of Congress, as well during the war as since the peace, they have no doubt that the transfer, if made, will be productive of the happiest effects.—Thus you see the enchantment in this County is dissolved; and I have every reason to believe that the people in general will continue to be guided by the suggestions of their own good sense, instead of yielding to the artful misrepresentations and interested advice of their quondam oracles. The Delegates to the CONVENTION are

LEWIS MORRIS,
PHILIP P. LIVINGSTON,
LOTT SARLES,
RICHARD HATFIELD,
THADDEUS CRANE, and
PHILIP V. CORTLANDT.

And the Members of Assembly, are

WALTER SEAMAN,
PHILIP V. CORTLANDT,
NATHAN ROCKWELL,
PHILIP P. LIVINGSTON,
THADDEUS CRANE, and
JONATHAN HORTON.

Our worthy friend General Morris, is in as high spirits as he was in the beginning of the late controversy with Great Britain, when he vanquished the combined forces of Philips and Delancy.