refore do promise, if elected, that I will use my endeavours to
procure, at the next session of Assembly, and as soon in the
session as the necessary business of the State will permit, a
recommendation by the General Assembly to call a convention, to
consider and decide on the Constitution proposed by the late
Convention for the United States, and to appoint the election of
delegates to the Convention as soon as the convenience of the
people will permit. I further beg leave to add as my opinion, that
the election of delegates to the Convention ought to be as early
in the spring as may be.

SAMUEL CHASE.

_Baltimore, September 27, 1787._

There are attacks on Chase, by "Steady" in the _Maryland Journal_ of
September 28, 1787, and by "Spectator," in the _Maryland Journal_ of
October 9, 1787.

Caution.

The Maryland Journal, (Number 976)

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1787.

TO THE INHABITANTS OF BALTIMORE TOWN,

An attempt to _surprise_ you into any _public_ measure, ought to meet your
indignation and contempt. When violence or cunning is substituted for
argument and reason, suspicion should take the alarm, and prudence should
dictate the propriety of deliberation. Questions of consequence in private
life ought not to be _hastily_ decided, and with greater reason,
determinations that involve the future felicity of a whole people, ought
not to be taken before the most mature and deliberate consideration, and a
free and full examination of the subject and all its consequences. These
reflections occurred on being informed that some gentlemen of this Town
employ themselves in carrying about and soliciting subscribers to a
petition, addressed to the General Assembly, requesting them to call a
Convention to ratify the new system of government, proposed for the United
States by the late Convention at Philadelphia. If this petition contained
no more, it would not have been worthy of notice; but it publishes to the
world your entire approbation of the New Federal Government, and your
desire that it should be adopted and confirmed by this State, as it
stands, _without any amendment or alteration_.

The ostensible cause for offering you the petition to sign is, that you
may express your sentiments to the legislature, that they ought to call a
Convention to ratify the new form of government for the United States; but
the real design of the promoters of the petition is to draw you