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The Daily Advertiser
New York, New York County, New York
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Extract of a letter from a Virginia Convention member dated June 13 details efforts to persuade Kentucky district members alarmed by potential federal treaty powers harming Mississippi navigation rights, amid debates where the writer's side holds a calculated majority of nine or ten.
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"This day has been wholly occupied in endeavoring to gain over the members of the Kentucky district, who are alarmed with an idea, that the powers of making treaties, which shall be the supreme law of the land, vested as it is in the president and the senate, will be exercised, in some fatal moment, to the prejudice of their right to the navigation of the Mississippi. Both parties have been exerting their utmost efforts, under the ill-founded apprehension that these men hold the scale between them—I say ill-founded, because my calculations, leaving them in opposition to us, give a majority of nine or ten. However, I believe they are divided and, after all, we have more to hope than to fear from their change of sentiment."
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Virginia
Event Date
June 13
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calculations show a majority of nine or ten in favor, with kentucky district members divided.
Event Details
The day was spent trying to gain over Kentucky district members alarmed by treaty powers potentially prejudicing Mississippi navigation rights; both parties exerted efforts under the apprehension these members hold the balance, but the writer deems it ill-founded and hopes for a favorable change in sentiment.