[569]. Bancroft, op. cit., Vol. II, p. 316. The resolution provided that the “election shall be held in the month of March next on the first day of the court to be held for each county, city, or corporation respectively.” The qualifications of voters were “the same as those now established by law.” Blair, The Virginia Convention of 1788, Vol. I, p. 56–57. Only freeholders were eligible to seats in the Convention. Ibid., p. 56. Hening, Statutes at Large, Vol. XII, p. 462.
[570]. Laws of North Carolina (1821), Vol. I, p. 597; North Carolina Assembly Journals, 1785–98, p. 22.
[571]. Bancroft, op. cit., Vol. II, p. 349.
[572]. Hugh Williamson, writing to Madison on May 21, 1789, said: “Our people near the sea-coast are in great pain on the idea of being shut out from the Union. They say that unless they can continue in the coasting trade without the alien duty, they must starve with their families or remove from the state. Can no exception be made in favor of such apparent aliens for so long a period as the first of January next?” Madison Mss., Library of Congress.
[573]. Bancroft, op. cit., Vol. II, p. 293.
[574]. Documentary History of the Constitution, Vol. II, pp. 82 ff.
[575]. F. G. Bates, Rhode Island and the Union, pp. 192 ff.
[576]. Ibid., p. 197.
[577]. See below, p. 248.
[578]. See above, p. 234.