--_Ed._

26 Robert Yates, John Lansing, Jr., Luther Martin, James Francis
Mercer, Edmund Randolph, George Mason, and Elbridge Gerry.--_Ed._

27 The speech of Caleb Strong in the State Convention, Jan. 16,
1788.--_Ed._

28 Delivered Oct. 6, 1787. Printed in _Ford's Pamphlets on the
Constitution_, p. 155.--_Ed._

29 No record of this is given in the _Debates in the Massachusetts
Convention_.--_Ed._

30 Printed in _Elliot_, I, 492.--_Ed._

31 Printed in Ford's _Pamphlets on the Constitution_, p. 327.

32 Richard Henry Lee.

33 Saturday, September 15. See _Papers of James Madison_, III., 1593.

34 The paragraph containing Mason's objection to the mere majority
power of Congress to regulate commerce, was included in all the
southern papers, but omitted in copies furnished to the papers north
of Maryland.--_Ed._

35 Mason proposed in the convention that the President should have a
privy council of six.--_Ed._

36 This is an error. It was moved by Mason and seconded by Gerry. Cf.
_Papers of James Madison, III._, 1578.

37 See letter of William Williams in this collection.--_Ed._

38 John Lamb, Marinus Willetts, Melancthon Smith, George Clinton and
Robert or Abraham Yates, the principal anti-federalists of New
York.--_Ed._

39 See counter-statements of Gerry and Martin in their answers.--_Ed._

40 Cf. _Papers of James Madison_, III, 1595.

41 The Convention of Connecticut, which was to meet Jan. 4.--_Ed._

42 The Landholder, IV-VIII, were reprinted in _The Maryland Journal_,
and the attack on Gerry in them, drew from Luther Martin a defence
of that gentleman, which is printed in this collection. To that the
Landholder replied as above, but this one of the series was not
printed in _The Connecticut Courant_, its place being taken by the
number X., printed immediately after this letter.--_Ed._

43 June 9.--_Ed._

44 This is a misstatement. The motion to elect representatives as the
state legislature should direct was made by C. C. Pinckney, was
seconded by Martin, and approved of by Sherman, and on being put to
a vote was favored by Connecticut, New Jersey, Delaware and South
Carolina. Cf. _Papers of James Madison_, II., 925.--_Ed._

45 Mr. Gerry agreed with Mr. Martin on these questions.

46 By direction of the General Assem