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PHILADELPHIA, June 2.Such rircumfpeion fecrecy mark the proceedings of the federal convention, that*the members find it difficult to acquire the habit of communication, even among themfelves, and are fo cautious in defeating the curio-fity of the public, that all debate is fufpended, upon the entrance of their own inferior officers. T'hough wereadily admit the propriety of excluding an indifcriminate attendance upon the difcuffion* of this deliberative council, it is hoped that the privacy of their tranfaions will be an additional motive for difpatch, as the anxiety of the people muft be neceflarily encreaf-cd, by every appearance of myfler) in conducing this important bufnefs.It is curious to remark the fanciful opinions that are advanced by the variety of politicians that take this opportunity of fabricating fchemes for the continental government; but it is aftonifhing that fome very ferious minds fiiould indulge the abfurd project of grafting a monarchy (no matter whether the oflenfible individual is called king, dicflator, or governor) upon the prevailing democratic fyfienis. Hifio-rycannotfurnifhan inftuneeof a change from a popular government (the refio-ration of Charles the II. and the late revolution in Sweden were butfudden paroxifms) to a regal one, but through the medium of a violent convulfion ; and in that cafe what has been acquired by force, can only be prefen cd by defpotifm; for, fays a celebrated tyrant, u crowns got by blood, muil be by blood maintained.” Coolly and deliberately to veft a fingle perfon withthe attributes of fovereigntyj would a-mount to fuicide in thofe who have fo nobly acquitted themfelves in a contcft with monarchical ambition.
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Essex Journal And New Hampshire Packet

Newburyport, Massachusetts, US

Wed, Jun 13, 1787

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