Capt. Jedediah Southworth, _Stoughton_, mr. Nathan Comstock,
_Wrentham_, mr. Benjamin Randall, _Sharon_, mr. M. Richardson,
jun. _Medway_, rev. Noah Alden, _Bellingham_, hon. Israel
Hutchinson, _Danvers_, capt. Peter Osgood, jun. dr. Thomas
Kittredge, _Andover_, capt. Thomas Mighill, _Rowley_, hon.
A. Wood, _Boxford_, capt. Ebenezer Carlton, _Methuen_, dr.
Marshall Spring, _Watertown_, capt. Timothy Winn, _Woburn_,
mr. William Flint, mr. Peter Emerson, _Reading_, mr. Jonas
Morse, major Benjamin Sawin, _Marlboro'_, William Thompson,
esq. _Billerica_, col. Benjamin Ely, capt. John Williston,
_West Springfield_, capt. Phinehas Stebbins, _Wilbraham_, Mr.
Daniel Cooley, _Amherst_, Mr. Benjamin Eastman, _Granby_, Mr.
Josiah Allis, _Whately_, mr. William Bodman, _Williamsburg_, mr.
Samuel Field, _Deerfield_, mr. Moses Bascom, _Greenfield_, mr.
Robert Wilson, _Shelburne_, capt. Consider Arms, mr. Malachi
Maynard, _Conway_, capt. Zacheus Crocker, _Sunderland_, mr.
Moses Severance, _Montague_, capt. Asa Fisk, _South Brimfield_,
mr. Phinehas Merrick, _Monson_, mr. Adam Clark, _Pelham_, capt.
Nathaniel Whitcomb, _Greenwich_, mr. Timothy Blair, _Blanford_,
mr. Aaron Mirrick, _Palmer_, mr. John Hamilton, Mr. Clark Cooley,
_Granville_, mr. John Chamberlain, _New Salem_, mr. Justus
Dwight, _Belchertown_, mr. Samuel Eddy, _Colrain_, mr. Isaac
Pepper, _Ware_, capt. John Goldsbury, _Warwick_ and _Orange_,
capt. Agrippa Wells, _Bernardston_, mr. Ephraim Williams,
_Ashfield_, mr. Asa Powers, _Shutesbury_, capt. Silas Fowler,
_Southwick_, mr. John Jennings, _Ludlow_, mr. Jonathan Hubbard,
_Leverett_, mr. Benjamin Thomas, mr. Isaac Soul, _Middleboro'_,
mr. Nathaniel Hammond, mr. Abraham Holmes, _Rochester_, capt.
Francis Shurtliff, mr. Elisha Bisbee, jun. _Plympton_, dr. Thomas
Smith, mr. Thomas Nye, _Sandwich_, col. Nathaniel Leonard, mr.
Aaron Pratt, _Taunton_, capt. Phanuel Bishop, major Frederick
Drown, William Windsor, esq. _Rehoboth_, mr. Christopher Mason,
mr. David Brown, _Swansey_, hon. Holder Slocum, mr. Melatiah
Hathway, _Dartmouth_, hon. Abraham White, _Norton_, capt.
Ebenezer Tisdell, _Easton_, capt. John Pratt, _Mansfield_,
capt. Esaias Preble, _York_, mr. Mark Adams, mr. James Neal,
_Kittery_, capt. Elijah Thayer, dr. Nathaniel Low, mr. Richard
Foxwell Cutts, _Berwick_, mr. Thomas M. Wentworth, _Lebanon_,
major Samuel Nasson, _Sanford_, mr. Moses Ames, _Fryeburg_, Mr.
Jeremiah Emery, _Shapleigh_, rev. Pelatiah Tingley, _Waterboro',_
mr. David Bigelow, _Worcester_, Edward Thompson, esq. _Mendon_,
major John Minot, _Chelmsford_, capt. Gilbert Dench, _Hopkinton_,
mr. Jonathan Keep, _Westford_, dr. Benjamin Morse, Joseph Sheple,
esq. _Groton_, mr. Obadiah Sawtell, _Shirley_, mr. Daniel Fisk,
_Pepperell_, capt. Daniel Adams, _Townsend_, capt. John Webber,
_Bedford_, capt. Sta. Chamberlain, _Holliston_, mr. Asa Parlin,
_Acton_ and _Carlisle_, capt. J. Harnden, _Wilmington_, mr.
Newman Scarlet, _Tewksbury_, mr. Samuel Reed, _Littleton_,
mr. Benjamin Adams, _Ashby_, major Hezekiah Bread, _Natick_,
capt. Jonathan Green, _Stoneham_, mr. Phinehas Gleason, _East
Sudbury_, mr. Daniel Forbes, mr. N. Jenks, _Brookfield_, capt.
Jeremiah Learned, _Oxford_, mr. Caleb Curtis, Mr. Ezra M'Intier,
_Charlton_, mr. David Harwood, hon. Amos Singletary, _Sutton_,
col. Samuel Denny, _Leicester_, mr. James Hathua, _Spencer_, mr.
Asaph Shermon, _Rutland_, mr. Abraham Smith, _Paxton_, capt.
Jonathan Bullard, _Oakham_, capt. John Black, _Barre_, capt. John
Woods, _Hubbardston_, capt. Benjamin Joslyn, _New Braintree_,
capt. Stephen Maynard, _Westboro'_, mr. Artemas Brigham,
_Northboro'_, capt. Isaac Harrington, _Shrewsbury_, capt. John
Fuller, _Lunenburg_, mr. Daniel Putnam, _Fitchburg_, dr. Samuel
Willard, _Uxbridge_, Josiah Whitney, esq. _Harvard_, mr. Jonathan
Day, _Dudley_, capt. Thomas M. Baker, _Upton_, capt. Timothy
Parker, _Sturbridge_, major Martin Kingsley, _Hardwick_, rev.
Joseph Davis, _Holden_, hon. John Taylor, _Douglass_, dr. Joseph
Wood, _Grafton_, Jonathan Grant, esq. capt. Samuel Peckham,
_Petersham_, John Frye, esq. _Royalston_, mr. Stephen Holden,
_Westminster_, capt. Joel Fletcher, _Templeton_, mr. Timothy
Fuller, _Princeton_, mr. Jacob Willard, _Ashburnham_, mr. Moses
Hale, _Winchendon_, capt. Josiah Wood, _Northbridge_, mr. Joseph
Stone, _Ward_, mr. David Stearns, _Milford_, mr. Jonas Temple,
_Boylston_, Daniel Ilsley, esq. _Falmouth_, mr. S. Longfellow,
jun. _Gorham_, William Widgery, _New Gloucester_, capt. David
Murry, _New Castle_, hon. Samuel Thompson, _Topsham_, mr. Jonah
Crosby, _Winslow_, mr. Zacheus Beal, _Bowdoinham_, William Jones,
esq. _Bristol_, capt. James Carr, _Hallowell_, mr. Joshua Bean,
_Winthrop_, mr. Valentine Rathbun, _Pittsfield_, mr. Comstock
Betts, _Richmond_, mr. Lemuel Collins, _Lenox_, capt. Jeremiah
Pierce, _Adams_, Ephraim Fitch, esq. _Egremont_, major Thomas
Lusk, _West Stockbridge_, mr. John Hurlbert, _Alford_, capt.
Ezekiel Herrick, _Tyrningham_, mr. Joshua Lawton, _Loudon_, mr.
Timothy Mason, _Windsor_, Ebenezer Pierce, esq. _Partridgefield_,
mr. David Vaughan, _Hancock_, capt. Jesse Bradley, _Lee_, mr.
Zenas Noble, _Washington_, mr. John Picket, jun. _Sandisfield._
TOTAL _Nays_ 168.
The open, manly and honourable conduct of the gentlemen who
composed the minority, in the great question on Wednesday, taken in
the honourable convention, was very different from the turbulent
opposers of the constitution in Pennsylvania, who, not content with
their declamatory and odious protest against its adoption, are now
endeavouring to involve their country in all the horrours of a civil
war, by exciting tumult and insurrection. On the vote of adoption
being declared,
Honourable mr. WHITE rose, and said, that notwithstanding he had
opposed the adoption of the constitution, upon the idea that it would
endanger the liberties of his country, yet, as a majority had seen
fit to adopt it, he should use his utmost exertions to induce his
constituents to live in peace under, and cheerfully submit to it.
He was followed by mr. WIDGERY, who said, that he should return to
his constituents, and inform them, that he had opposed the adoption
of this constitution, but that he had been overruled, and that he had
been carried by a majority of wise and understanding men: that he
should endeavour to sow the seeds of union and peace among the people
he represented--and that he hoped, and believed, that no person would
wish for, or suggest the measure of a PROTEST; for, said he, we must
consider that this body is as full a representation of the people, as
can be conceived.---- After expressing his thanks for the civility
which the inhabitants of this town have shewn to the convention, and
declaring, as his opinion, that they had not in the least influenced
the decision; he concluded by saying he should support, as much as
in him lay, the constitution, and believed, as this state had adopted
it, not only 9, but the whole 13, would come into the measure.
General WHITNEY said, that though he had been opposed to the
constitution, he should support it as much as if he had voted for it.
Mr. COOLEY, (_Amherst_) said, that he endeavoured to govern himself
by the principles of reason, that he was directed to vote against
the adoption of the constitution, and that in so doing, he had not
only complied with his direction, but had acted according to the
dictates of his own conscience; but that as it has been agreed to by
a majority, he should endeavour to convince his constituents of the
propriety of its adoption.
Doctor TAYLOR, also said, he had uniformly opposed the constitution,
that he found himself fairly beat, and expressed his determination to
go home, and endeavour to infuse a spirit of harmony and love, among
the people.
Other gentlemen expressed their inclination to speak, but it growing
late, the convention adjourned to Thursday morning, at ten o'clock.
_Let this be told to the honour of Massachusetts; to the reputation
of her citizens, as men willing to acquiesce in that republican
principle, of submitting to the decision of a majority._
Yesterday, A. M. the Convention met, according to adjournment, when
a vote was passed for proceeding in procession to the state-house,
and there to declare the ratification of the FEDERAL CONSTITUTION,
which that honourable body, on Wednesday last, by a majority of
NINETEEN assented to, in behalf of the commonwealth of Massachusetts.
About 12 o'clock, the procession moved from their place of session,
preceded by the honourable vice-president of the Convention. His
excellency the president being seated in an elegant vehicle, was
drawn by THIRTEEN patriotick and publick spirited MECHANICKS, who
thus expressed their love and respect for a man who ever loved and
respected his country.
The procession having arrived at the state-house, entered the
senate-chamber, from which his excellency the president, the
vice-president, secretary, high-sheriff of the county of Suffolk,
and other respectable characters, went out upon the balcony of the
state-house, from whence his excellency the president addressed the
multitude who had assembled below, in a short speech, preparatory to
what they were about to hear declared. The high-sheriff then declared
the federal constitution adopted and ratified by the Convention of
the commonwealth of Massachusetts.
After which the whole assembly testified their approbation by the
loudest huzzas.
An elegant repast being provided for the occasion in the
senate-chamber, the Convention, and a great number of other
gentlemen, partook thereof, and exhibited such marks of satisfaction,
as fully evinced, that this joyful event would tend to give vigour
and energy to our future continental administrations. After dinner
the following toasts were drank, viz.