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The Daily Advertiser
New York, New York County, New York
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A reliable source from New York reports to Philadelphia that the New Constitution is unlikely to be adopted in New York, due to the impact of Pennsylvania's convention minority's address and dissent, and criticisms of Publius's arguments for a standing army in peacetime.
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By a gentleman of veracity and information, who arrived in this city yesterday from New-York, we are assured, that there is not the smallest probability of the New Constitution being adopted in that State.
He says, that the Address and Dissent of the Minority of the Convention of Pennsylvania has done great execution there, but the last numbers of Publius have done still more; as that writer's attempts to prove the expediency of supporting a standing army in time of peace have been so futile, that even the friends of the new plan are offended with them. His barefaced assertions, that our existence as a nation depends upon our keeping up a large military, to defend us on the North from the British, on the West from the Indians, on the South from the Spaniards, and on the Atlantic side from the invasions of a maritime enemy, have alarmed the people exceedingly.
The common talk is, "Well, what do you think of being surrounded with a standing army!" Freeman's Journal.
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New York
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Jan. 2
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not the smallest probability of the new constitution being adopted in that state
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By a gentleman of veracity and information, who arrived in this city yesterday from New-York, we are assured, that there is not the smallest probability of the New Constitution being adopted in that State. He says, that the Address and Dissent of the Minority of the Convention of Pennsylvania has done great execution there, but the last numbers of Publius have done still more; as that writer's attempts to prove the expediency of supporting a standing army in time of peace have been so futile, that even the friends of the new plan are offended with them. His barefaced assertions, that our existence as a nation depends upon our keeping up a large military, to defend us on the North from the British, on the West from the Indians, on the South from the Spaniards, and on the Atlantic side from the invasions of a maritime enemy, have alarmed the people exceedingly. The common talk is, "Well, what do you think of being surrounded with a standing army!" Freeman's Journal.