Edmund Randolph, To the Printer
TO THE PRINTER.
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SIR,
THE incloſed letter contains the reaſons of his Excellency Governor Randolph for refuſing his ſignature to the propoſed Foederal Conſtitution of Government ſubmitted to the ſeveral ſtates by the late Convention at Philadelphia. The manner in which we have obtained it, and the authority by which we convey it to the Public, through the channel of your Preſs, will be explained by the letter herewith ſent to you, which, we requeſt may precede his Excellency's letter to the Speaker of the Houſe of Delegates in your publication of them.
M. SMITH, CHARLES M. THRUSTON. JOHN H. BRIGGS. MANN PAGE, jun.