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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1921 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VI Local Action On The Constitution And The Circular Letter While the chief interest in the ratification question naturally centered in the debates at Poughkeepsie, there was more or less activity throughout the state as well. As early as the seventh of March, 1788, Clinton had been in receipt of a letter from Randolph of Virginia, outlining the amendments which his state proposed to submit to a second convention. This had obviously been intended to reach him in time to influence the New York Legislature, but was rather inexplicably delayed. Two months later Clinton answered Randolph's letter in a most artistic and suave missive, a typical Clinton masterpiece, so addressed that it might appear to be a private communication, and yet obviously intended for public use.1 Very early a society, of which John Lamb, the Collector of the Port of New York, was the leading spirit, was formed m that city to combat the Constitution. This organization, as part of the general anti-federalist "campaign of education," circulated a series of pamphlets and essays intended to disparage the new frame of government, among them Lee's "Letters of a Federal Farmer." On the 12th of April the Albany Committee, writing to the heads of the New York organization in regard to some propaganda material not yet received, at the same time acknowledged the arrival of a piece by " a Columbian Patriot." This the committee considered to be very good but their only fear was that it was over the heads of the people whom it was intended to influence. The letter noted also that certain packages of documents intended for use in Montgomery and Washingto Counties had been duly forwarded to the committees there. The writers express great confidence in the outcome at Albany: "Our opponents here a...
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