COUNTIES. Madison, Mercer, Monongalia, Middlesex, Montgomery, Nansemond, Norfolk, Northampton, Northumberland, Ohio, Orange, Pittsylvania, Powhatan, Prince Edward, DELEGATES. John Miller,* Green Clay.* Samuel Hopkins,* Richard Kennon.* * * Thomas Allen, Alexander Robertson.* Randolph, Richmond, Rockbridge, Rockingham, Russell, Shenandoah, Southampton, Spottsylvania, Stafford, George Mason, Andrew Buchanan.* In the above list, the Democrats who stood firm are designated by an asterisk (*), and those Democrats who are believed to have voted with the Federalists are in italics. I have ascertained them, I think, with tolerable certainty, by the following process: It is not pretended, I repeat, that any one of the Federalists voted with the Democrats; but it is positively stated by Bushrod Washington, who appears to have been very active on the occasion, that the hope of ratification rested upon conversions to be made from the Democrats. It results, from this test, where a delegate from any county voted with the Opposition, that the politics of that county partook of that complexion, and that where his codelegate sided with the Federalists on the test vote, that he did so contrary to the declared wishes of his constituents. This test, it is true, may not tell the whole truth, for it may have chanced that the entire delegation from a county may have gone over to the Federalists. APPENDIX III. RATIFICATION OF THE CONSTITUTION. From the Journal of the Convention of Virginia, held in Richmond, on the first Monday in June, 1788. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 1788.-The Convention, according to the order of the day, resolved itself into a committee of the whole Convention, to take into farther consideration the proposed Constitution of Government for the United States; and after some time spent therein, Mr. President resumed the chair, and Mr. Mathews reported, that the committee had, according to order, again had the said proposed Constitution under their consideration, and had gone through the same, and come to several resolutions thereupon, which he read in his place, and afterwards delivered in at the clerk's table, where the same were again read, and are as followeth : Whereas, the powers granted under the proposed Constitution are the gift of the people, and every power, not granted thereby, remains with them, and at their will: No right, therefore, of any denomination can be cancelled, abridged, restrained or modified by the Congress, by the Senate, or House of Representatives, acting in any capacity; by the President, or any department, or officer of the United States, except in those instances in which power is given by the Constitution for those purposes: and among other essential rights, liberty of conscience and of the press cannot be cancelled, abridged, restrained or modified by any authority of the United States. And whereas, any imperfections which may exist in the said Constitution ought rather to be examined in the mode prescribed therein for obtaining amendments, than by a delay, with a hope of obtaining previous amendments, to bring the Union into danger : Resolved, that it is the opinion of this committee, That the said Constitution be ratified. But in order to relieve the apprehension of those who may be solicitous for amendments, Resolved, that it is the opinion of this committee, That whatsoever amendments may be deemed necessary, be recommended to the consideration of the Congress, which shall first assemble under the said Constitution, to be acted upon according to the mode prescribed in the fifth article thereof. The first resolution being read a second time, a motion was made, and the question being put to amend the same, by substituting, in lieu of the said resolution and its preamble, the following resolution: "Resolved, That previous to the ratification of the new Constitution of Government, recommended by the late Federal Convention, a Declaration of Rights, asserting and securing from encroachment the great privileges of Civil and Religious Liberty, and the inalienable rights of the PEOPLE, together with amendments to the most exceptionable parts of the said Constitution of Government, ought to be referred by this Convention to the other States in the American Confederacy for their consideration." It passed in the negative-ayes, 80; noes, 88. On motion of Mr. Patrick Henry, seconded by Mr. Theoderick Bland, the ayes and noes on the said question were taken, as followeth : Ayes-Messrs. Edmund Custis, Jno. Pride, Edmund Booker, William Cabell, Samuel Jordan Cabell, John Trigg, Charles Clay, Henry Lee (of Bourbon), The Honorable John Jones, Binn Jones, Charles Patteson, David Bell, Robert Alexander, Edmund Winston, Thomas Read, Benjamin Harrison, The Honorable John Tyler, David Patteson, Stephen Pankey, Jr., Joseph Michaux, Thomas H. Drew, French Strother, Joel Early, Joseph Jones, William Watkins, Meriwether Smith, James Upshaw, John Fowler, Samuel Richardson, Joseph Haden, John Early, Thomas Arthurs, John Guerrant, William Sampson, Isaac Coles, George Carrington, Parke Goodall, John Carter Littlepage, Thomas Cooper, John Marr, Thomas Roane, Holt Richeson, Benjamin Temple, Stephens Thompson Mason, William White, Jonathan Patterson, Christopher Robertson, John Logan, Henry Pawling, John Miller, Green Clay, Samuel Hopkins, Richard Kennon, Thomas Allen, Alexander Robertson, John Evans, Walter Crocket, Abraham Trigg, Matthew Walton, John Steele, Robert Williams, John Wilson (of Pittsylvania), Thomas Turpin, Patrick Henry, Robert Lawson, Edmund Ruffin, Theoderick Bland, William Grayson, Cuthbert Bullitt, Thomas Carter, Henry Dickenson, James Monroe, John Dawson, George Mason, Andrew Buchanan, John Howell Briggs, Thos. Edmunds, The Honorable Richard Cary, Samuel Edmison and James Montgomery-80. Noes-The Honorable Edmund Pendleton, Esq., President, Messrs. George Parker, George Nicholas, Wilson Nicholas, Zachariah Johnson, Archibald Stuart, William Dark, Adam Stephen, Martin McFerran, William Fleming, James Taylor (of Caroline), The Honorable Paul Carrington, Miles King, Worlich Westwood, David Stuart, Charles Simms, Humphrey Marshall, Martin Pickett, Humphrey Brooke, John S. Woodcock, Alexander White, Warner Lewis, Thomas Smith, George Clendinen, John Stuart, William Mason, Daniel Fisher, Andrew Woodrow, Ralph Humphreys, George Jackson, John Prunty, Isaac Vanmiter, Abel Seymour, His Excellency Governor Randolph, John Marshall, Nathaniel Burwell, Robert Andrews, James Johnson, Robert Breckenridge, Rice Bullock, William Fleet, Burdet Ashton, William Thornton, James Gordon (of Lancaster), Henry Towles, Levin Powell, Wm. Overton Callis, 16 |