The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-12-10

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Ell 0 Caswell:
Il should have done myself the
pleasure Of writing to your ExceHency
cftener than I have done, but not be-
ing at >liberty to communicate any
thing that passed in convention l
have nothing to write about" He
then advises that it will probably take
at least two months before the con-
vention will finish their work. Two
days later General Martin, Colonel
Spaight, General Davie, and Dr.. Will
hanson join in a letter to Governor
Caswell as follows:
by the date Of this 0 will OBJ
serve that we are near the middle OF
June and though we sit from day to
sible for US to determine when the
business before us can be finished, a
very large field presents to our view
without a single straight or eligible
road tina has been trodden by the
feet Of nations. The reunion Of SOW
ereign states preserving their civil
liberties and connected together by
such ties as to preserve permanent
and effective government is a system
not described, It Is a circumstance
that has not occurred in the history
of man; If we shall be SO fortunate
as to find this in descript our time
will have been we'll spent
Under date Of July 7th these four
deputies again write Governor Cas-
we'll:
1.-The convention having on the 26th
Of last month finished the outline Of
the amendments proposed to the Fed
| oral system, the business vas Of
course committed for detail and we
have the pleasure to inform your Ex-
cellency hat the report was received
On yesterday. From the progress,
I xph;oh hos o1roodu "a 1rnn I'm near three
months, we are induced to believe the
result OF our deliberations will short
ly be presented to the United States
in Congress, and they T only to con-
slider whether the system shall or
shall not be recommended to tho
states, the business cannot remain
long before them"
Under date Of July 26th we find
Governor Caswell at kinston writing
Colonel Spaight at Philadelphia a let
ter from which we quote:
II have been very much indisposed
a great part of the time since you
left the State is the. reason I have
not before this done myself the honor
OF acknowledging your receipt Of the
goth of May and 18th Of June, which
came to hand some weeks past. How
ever, I am now able to be about and
hope to get restored to health.
The convention IN my judgment
have done wisely in entoining secrecy
II, their members, was the case other
wise it would give moro room to
babblers and scribblers to exercise
their powers than they can be at lib
erty to take in their present case.
From the iii you throw out in
your first letter I am induced to think
that the plan Of a National Parlia-
n1ent and Supreme Executive with
adequate powers to the government OF
49, a I'LL 10 m an
situation and circumstances than any
other, but I should wish also an in
dependent Judicial Department to de-
eide any contest that may happen
between the United States and IN
dividual states, and between one state
and another; this however Is only a
hint, you ma not see the necessity
now it is too late to offer any rea-
sons for the establishment. as that
matter I fatter myself is before this
got over; all l can say respecting the
convention is to recommend a per
, severance to the end, to h deputies
from this State"
OF the North Carolina delegation
Mr.. Hampton l.. Carson in his lone
Hundredth Anniversary Of the Consti
ton Of the United States thus de
, scribes the several parties:
Richard Dobbs Spaight,
proposed the election Of United
States Senators by the Legislatures OF
the states, and suggested seven year.
, as the presidential term OF office. He
was in favor Of reconsidering h de.
, cision once arrived at, to choose the
. President by electors appointed by
the State Legislatures, n objected
to requiring more than 81 majority t.
pass g. navigation act"
2 Accounts OF Hugh Williamson
! Alexander Martin, William X. Davie
/ and William Blount are omitted fo1
: lack Of space
The assembly which met ct Tar.
boro on November 10. 1857, found
: Richard Dobbs SpaSxft as a membe,
: Of the House OF Commons from
Craven county. He appeared on No.
K yember 10 and upon his qualification
= was Immediately added to the Com.
y mittees on nan and directed r.