TO EDMUND RANDOLPH.
CHIC. HIST. SOC. MSS.
New York, July 16, 1788.
Dear Sir,
The enclosed papers will give you the latest intelligence
from Poughkeepsie. It seems by no means
certain what the result there will be. Some of the
most sanguine calculate on a ratification. The best
informed apprehend some clog that will amount to
a condition. The question is made peculiarly interesting
in this place, by its connexion with the question
relative to the place to be recommended for
the meeting of the first Congress under the new
Government.
Thirteen States are at present represented. A
plan for setting this new machine in motion has been
reported some days, but will not be hurried to a conclusion.
Having been but a little time here, I am
not yet fully in the politics of Congress.
I had on the road several returns of a bilious lax
which made my journey more tedious and less agreeable
than it would otherwise have been—at present
I am pretty well again. Hoping this will find you
and yours more completely so,
