“Our new Constitution,” says Franklin, who next to Washington was the most illustrious member of the Convention of 1787, “is now established with eleven States, and the accession of a twelfth is soon expected.” (Franklin’s Works, vol. v., page 400) And, finally, George Washington himself, who, watching the States as one after another adopted the new Constitution, says:— “If these, with the States eastward and northward of us, should accede to the Federal Government.” (The Writings of Washington, vol. ix., page 280).
