I will not say this writer makes a distinction between a thing done in convention and a thing done in committee. Be this as it may, he confesses more than Mr. Martin; for it seems that Mr. Gerry proposed that “the public debt should stand on the same ground it now stands on by the articles of confederation.” He might have subjoined that Mr. Gerry prefaced this motion by observing that it was the same in substance as his first, in as much as it included his first. But notwithstanding this motion was readily agreed to without his explanation being contradicted, yet he never afterwards favoured the convention with a look of peace, or a word of reconcilement. 50 The convention of New Hampshire had met on the 13 of June, and after a discussion of seven days, had adjourned without voting upon the constitution.—_Ed._ 51 See Letter of William Williams in this Collection.—_Ed._ 52 This is a paraphrase of the arguments of “The Centinel” in _The Independent Gazetteer_.—ED. 53 An attempt had been made in Congress, by the friends of the new government, for Congress to recommend its acceptance, but this produced protest from those opposed to it, and threats of an appeal to the people, so in order to prevent such action a compromise was eventually made, by which it was merely unanimously “transmitted to the several legislatures.”—_Ed._ 54 A series of articles in the _New York Journal_, written by Robert Yates.—_Ed._ 55 John Smilie, a prominent Anti-Federalist.—_Ed._ 56 William Livingston.—_Ed._ 57 See _Ante_, pages 182 and 189.—_Ed._ 58 The Maryland Delegates to the Federal Convention were required by the legislature to report the proceedings of that body to them, and it was in this connection that Martin’s _Genuine Information_ was prepared.—_Ed._ 59 According to this idea, I endeavored to obtain as an amendment to the system the following clause: “And whenever the legislature of the United States shall find it necessary that revenue shall be raised by direct taxation, having apportioned the same by the above rule, requisitions shall be made of the respective states to pay into the continental treasury their respective quotas within a time in the said requisition to be specified, and in case of any of the states failing to comply with such requisition, then, and then only, to have power to devise and pass acts directing the mode, and authorizing the same in the state failing therein.” This was rejected, and that power, which I wished to have given the government only in this particular instance, is given to it without any restraint or limitation in every case.