The Daily Advertiser

PHILADELPHIA, May 14.

The elections for the State of New-York are closed, but the votes being sealed up till the latter end of this month, it is impossible to ascertain the list of the members for their Convention. 'Tis however certain, that many of their ablest and most patriotic characters, will be in that house, so that the Constitution will be considered by able and candid politicians, sensible of its merits, disposed to allow for its interferences with partial interests, and sensible of the critical posture of our affairs, at home and abroad.

Since there will be many in the New-York Convention, who have expressed a desire for the adoption, and many more, who from the above circumstances will be averse to the rejection of it, we have not a doubt of seeing that near neighbor and sister state adding her respectable name to the new confederacy. Then will all be included, from Massachusetts to Maryland. The same circumstances and considerations render the adoption by Virginia equally probable. South-Carolina appears certain.

The disposition of the majority of Maryland, we are well assured, were in favor of some amendments, but it was early clear to them, that their constituents did not desire that Convention to take up the consideration and recommendation of them. To preserve the American Union, by the adoption of the proposed Federal Constitution, appeared to them to be the purpose for which the people at large had delegated them.

The Citizens of the United States and their possessions being the sole source of power, honor and revenue, 'tis no great stretch of imagination to presume, that they consider themselves as having a right to propose, recommend and order amendments of their own civil constitutions in all future times.

Should the state of New-York reject the proposed Constitution, one of two events must certainly ensue. First, that if the Constitution is not adopted by nine states, that devoted country will lie between the New-England confederacy, consisting of Vermont, Connecticut, Massachusetts, &c. on the one hand, and the confederacy of the middle States, consisting of New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland, on the other. Secondly, if the Constitution is adopted, then she will lie in the midst of the most effective and powerful parts of the new confederacy, joined immediately by Jersey on the South, Connecticut on the North-East, and Vermont on the North.

In either case, Staten-Island, from its federalism and contiguity to New-Jersey, will abandon New-York, and cling to the confederacy, whether great or small, to which New-Jersey belongs. Thus will that valuable State be placed, as it were, between the upper and nether mill-stone, and find herself an alien among her father's children. Let us rather fondly hope, that we shall all be united in one fold, under one shepherd.