The New York Journal, And Daily Patriotic Register

American Occurrences.

BALTIMORE, April 18.

Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Montgomery county, to his friend in Baltimore, dated April 11, 1788.

On Thursday evening last, the election for members to represent Montgomery county in convention, was concluded, when the state of the poll appeared as follows:

Thomas Cranch, 896
Richard Thomas, 895
William Deakins, 894
Benjamin Edwards, 894
Edward Burgess, 313
Lawrence O'Neal, 312
William Holmes, 312
Henry Griffith, 311

The four first gentlemen had uniformly declared themselves in favor of the new constitution; the unsuccessful candidates openly avowed their opposition; the voters, free from every influence of personal regard, were actuated solely by their respective wishes to ratify or reject the proposed government. By the mode we have pursued, the sense of the people immediately appears, and if a majority of the counties have conducted themselves in the same manner, our convention can spend but little time in discussion and deliberation. It is to be lamented, that gentlemen of popular talents, who have used such exertions to obtain seats in convention, will have no opportunity to display those wonderful and irresistible talents, which have so often "made the worse appear the better cause."