Dobbs County, NC - 1st 1788 Election News

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Newbern, April 2

The election of delegates to the convention of this state, which is
to meet at Hillsborough on the third Monday in July, took place
on Friday and Saturday last. The majority of the delegates who were
elected, in almost every county from which we have been able to 
obtain a return, have promised that the preservation of the civil
and religious rights and liberties of their fellow citizens, declared
and secured under our present constitution, would be the ruling
principle of their conduct.

We hear from Kingston, Dobbs County, that the party who advocates
the new constitution, finding that their candidates, amongst whom
was gen. Caswell the late Governor, stood not the least chance of
being elected, blew out the candles, broke the box, scattered the
tickets, and mistaking the sheriff for a methodist preacher, who by
his strong opposition to the constitution, had almost secured his
election, treated him rather roughly.

By a gentleman who just now arrived from Hillsborough, we are told
that not one single friend to the new constitution has been elected
in the counties of Wake, Johnston or Wayne.

Source: May 9, 1788
        The New York Journal, and Daily Patriotic Register

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