The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787/Volume 3/Appendix A/LVII

by Max Farrand

LVII. Hugh Williamson to James Iredell.^[1]

Philadelphia, July 8th, 1787.

I think it more than likely that we shall not leave this place before the middle of August. The diverse and almost opposite interests that are to be reconciled, occasion us to progress very slowly. I fear that Davie will be obliged to leave us before our business is finished, which will be a heavy stroke to the delegation. We have occasion for his judgment, for I am inclined to think that the great exertions of political wisdom in our late Governor [Martin], while he sat at the helm of our State, have so exhausted his fund, that time must be required to enable him again to exert his abilities to the advantage of the nation.

1. McRee, Life and Correspondence of James Iredell, II, 163.