APPENDIX II.

I insert here the counties represented in the Convention, together with the names of the delegates from each county, taken from a printed copy of the Journal of the Convention, to be found in the State library:

DELEGATES

Returned to serve in Convention, March, 1788.

† Notley Conn, one of the delegates from Bourbon, I do not find to have voted on the Constitution; yet he was a Democrat, judging his politics by those of his colleague. He may have dodged in June, but he stood out in October for a new Convention. Nor do I find any trace whatever of Thomas Pierce's vote. If, like Conn, he was a Democrat, who, if present, would have voted against ratification, the majority for ratification, on the test vote, would have been reduced to six votes to three delegates.

COUNTIES.

Caroline,
Charlotte,

Charles City,
Chesterfield,

Cumberland,

Culpeper,

Dinwiddie,

Elizabeth City,

Essex,

Fairfax,

Fayette,

Fauquier,

Fluvanna,
Frederick,
Franklin,

Gloucester,

Goochland,

Greenbrier,

Greenesville,

Halifax,
Hampshire,

Hanover,

Harrison,

Hardy,

Henrico,

Henry,

Isle of Wight,
James City,
Jefferson,

King and Queen,

King George,

King William,

Lancaster,

Loudoun,

Louisa,

Lunenburg,

Lincoln,

DELEGATES.

.*

Hon. Edmund Pendleton, James Taylor.
Thomas Read,* Hon. Paul Carrington.
Benjamin Harrison,* John Tyler.*
David Patteson,* Stephen Pankey, jun.
Joseph Michaux,* Thomas H. Drew.*
French Strother,* Joel Early.*
Joseph Jones,* William Watkins.*
Miles King, Worlich Westwood.
James Upshaw,* Meriwether Smith.*
David Stuart, Charles Simms.
Humphrey Marshall, John Fowler.*
Martin Pickett, Humphrey Brooke.
Samuel Richardson,* Joseph Haden.*
John S. Woodcock, Alexander White.
John Early, Thomas Arthurs.*
Warner Lewis, Thomas Smith.
John Guerrant,* William Sampson.*
George Clendinen, John Stuart.

*

William Mason, Daniel Fisher.
Isaac Coles,* George Carrington.*

Andrew Woodrow, Ralph Humphreys.
Parke Goodall,* John Carter Littlepage.*
George Jackson, John Prunty.

Isaac Vanmiter, Abel Seymour.

His Exc'y Gov. Randolph, John Marshall.
Thomas Cooper,* John Marr.*

Thomas Pierce, James Johnson.

Nathaniel Burwell, Robert Andrews.
Robert Breckenridge, Rice Bullock.
William Fleet, Thomas Roane.*
Burdet Ashton, William Thornton.
Holt Richeson,* Benjamin Temple.*
James Gordon, Henry Towles.
Stephens T. Mason,* Levin Powell.

William Overton Callis, William White.*

Jonathan Patteson,* Christopher Robertson.*
John Logan, Henry Pawling.*

*

COUNTIES.

Madison,
Mecklenburg,

Mercer,

Monongalia,

Middlesex,

Montgomery,

Nansemond,
New Kent,
Nelson,

Norfolk,

Northampton,

Northumberland,

Ohio,

Orange,

Pittsylvania,

Powhatan,

Prince Edward, Prince George, Prince William, Princess Ann, Randolph,

Richmond,

Rockbridge,

Rockingham,

Russell,

Shenandoah,

Southampton,

Spottsylvania,

Stafford,

Surry,

Sussex,

Warwick,

Washington,

Westmoreland,

York,

Williamsburg,

Norfolk Borough,

Samuel Hopkins,* Richard Kennon.*
Thomas Allen,* Alexander Robertson.*
John Evans, William Mc Clerry.
Ralph Wormley, Jr., Francis Corbin.
Walter Crocket,* Abraham Trigg.*
Willis Riddick, Solomon Shepherd.
William Clayton, Burwell Bassett.
Matthew Walton,* John Steele.*
James Webb, James Taylor.
John Stringer, Littleton Eyre.
Walter Jones, Thomas Gaskins.
Archibald Woods, Ebenezer Zane.
James Madison, Jr., James Gordon.
Robert Williams,* John Wilson.*
William Ronald, Thomas Turpin, Jr.*
Patrick Henry,* Robert Lawson.*
Theodrick Bland,* Edmund Ruffin.*
William Grayson,* Cuthbert Bullitt.*
Anthony Walke, Thomas Walke.
Benjamin Wilson, John Wilson.
Walker Tomlin, William Peachy.
William McKee, Andrew Moore.
Thomas Lewis, Gabriel Jones.
Thomas Carter,* Henry Dickenson.*
Jacob Rinker, John Williams.
Benjamin Blount, Samuel Kello.
James Monroe,* John Dawson.*

George Mason,* Andrew Buchanan.*

John Hartwell Cocke, John Allen.

John Howell Briggs,* Thomas Edmunds.*
Cole Diggs, Richard Cary.*

Samuel Edmison,* James Montgomery.*
Henry Lee, Bushrod Washington.
Hon. John Blair, Hon. George Wythe.
James Innes.

Thomas Mathews.

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,