The Enquirer

Domestic Intelligence.

PENNSYLVANIA.

The following memorial is in circulation, for the signatures of the Friends of the Constitution:—

To the Honourable the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

The memorial of the subscribers, citizens of the said commonwealth,

Most Respectfully Represents;

THAT your memorialists have seen, with alarm and regret, proposals, recently and suddenly sent forth and pressed upon your consideration, for calling a convention, with the avowed intention of altering some of the most important principles of the constitution of this state.

Your memorialists, who, in common with their fellow-citizens, have, for nearly fifteen years, enjoyed the benefits resulting from our present system of government, framed by the wisdom, adopted by the choice, and suited to the character of the people, are unable to discover what new or formidable evils have arisen to require, even deliberation, on a change.

We now enjoy personal liberty; freedom of religion, of speaking, and of writing; property and reputation are protected. Some inconveniences may exist; but they are within the reach of remedy from the constitutional power of the legislature.

Believing the constitution to be so composed and organized, as fully to secure all the objects of good government, and seeing no prospect, but that of danger, in a project of innovation, which when required by no evident necessity, can lead to no useful end, your memorialists, solemnly protesting against the measure, the pernicious consequences of which they sincerely deprecate, rely on the virtue and patriotism of the Senate and House of Representatives, to preserve their country from the impending evil, and confidently hope they will firmly reject, whatever application may be made for assembling a convention, having for its object, any change in the constitution of Pennsylvania.

And your memorialists, &c.