NY Ratification Convention Debates (June 19, 1788) - New York Daily Advertiser (June 23, 1788)

On Thursday last in the Convention of this State, Mr. Chancellor Livingston, in a Committee of the whole, made a most excellent speech on the necessity of an union between this State and the United States.1 (In a very pathetic manner he described the peculiar and alarming situation of our country; he recommended to the house, in strong terms, coolness and candor in the discussion of the Constitution;) and concluded by moving for a resolution, in substance, "That no question general or particular, should be taken, until the Constitution shall have been discussed clause by clause; and that any amendments which shall be proposed, shall be submitted to the consideration of the Committee without any question being taken thereon." This was agreed to without opposition.