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The Daily Advertiser
New York, New York County, New York
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Extract of a letter from a North Carolina General Assembly member in Fayetteville, dated November 10, 1788, describes the assembly's session where counties petition for a new convention to reconsider and ratify the U.S. Constitution, facing strong anti-federalist opposition but hoping for a narrow majority approval to avoid anarchy.
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"Our general assembly is now sitting at this place. A great many of the counties have petitioned for writs of elections for a new convention, to reconsider and ratify the constitution on the part of this state. The anti-federalists are still numerous, and, very many of them, callous to reason. To-morrow we expect to bring forward the petitions to introduce the matter: the opposition will run high; but I am in hopes we will carry- though I believe it will be by a small majority. If we cannot have a new convention, anarchy will most probably be the consequence."
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Primary Location
Fayetteville, North Carolina
Event Date
10th Nov. 1788
Outcome
hopes for approval by small majority; warns of anarchy without new convention
Event Details
General assembly sitting in Fayetteville; counties petition for elections for new convention to reconsider and ratify constitution; anti-federalists numerous and resistant; petitions to be brought forward tomorrow with high opposition