BoldlyRide

This idea will add the inducements of philanthropy to those of patriotism, to heighten the solicitude which all considerate and good men must feel for the event. (Decent folks should be anxious about this not just for our national good, but also for the welfare of all mankind.) Happy will it be if our choice should be directed by a judicious estimate of our true interests, unperplexed and unbiased by considerations not connected with the public good. But this is a thing more ardently wished than seriously to be expected. The plan offered to our deliberations affects too many particular interests, innovates upon too many local institutions, not to involve in its discussion a variety of objects foreign to its merits, and of views, passions and prejudices little favorable to the discovery of truth. (It is in vain that we hope our evaluation of this constitution will be free from the taint of personal interest. In fact, petty local concerns and prejudices will raise many arguments against this constitution that have nothing to do with the merits of the plan.)