that he should sign this sentiment among the sixteen, when he was himself a candidate? It were to be wished his name at least had not been there, or that the observation in their address had been omitted. It is consistent with propriety, that another gentleman should vote for calling the Convention, and afterwards secede from his brethren? How much more becoming the honor of their private characters, and the dignity of their public offices, was the conduct of the two gentlemen who were brought to the house by the speaker's order, in entering freely into the debates that ensued. Though they have not accustomed themselves to speak often, they, on this occasion, proposed matters for the good of their constituents (which they could not have done if absent), and their motions were adopted.

The address carries an idea that the new federal constitution has been only approved by what is called the republican party. I would cheerfully rest the disproving this insinuation upon any man of honor in the constitutional party. Dr. Franklin and Mr. Ingersoll, who assisted to frame, and afterwards signed the act of the convention, never opposed our state constitution. Messrs. Will, Foulke, G. Heister, Kreemer, J. Heister, Davis, Trexler, Burkhalter and Antis, and other members of the house, who voted for the call of a State Convention, are surely not republicans; and among the four thousand petitioners for the adoption of the new federal government, will be found many of the most zealous, active and respectable friends of the constitution of this commonwealth. This I assert as an incontrovertible fact, of which every individual of the sixteen seceding gentlemen was fully possessed; for the petitions, with a very great number of the names of such persons, were presented to the house on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday. The secession took place on Friday afternoon, and was repeated on Saturday morning. The good men of Pennsylvania will satisfy themselves whether their sixteen representatives have given this wrong idea from want of temper or from want of virtue-it was indeed unguarded to pass upon their constituents a suggestion that the friends of the new federal government were all of them ene

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