I  should  have  done  myself  the  pleasure  of  writing  to  your  Excel-
lency oftener  than  I  have  done,  but  not  being  at  Liberty  to  Com-
municate anything  that  passes  in  the  Convention,  I  have  nothing
to  write  about.
The  time  it  will  require  for  the  Convention  to  finish  the  business
they  have  before  them  being  entirely  uncertain  the  deputies  are  of
opinion  that  a  further  advance  of  two  months'  Salary  will  be  neces-
sary, and  have  wrote  to  your  Excellency  on  that  Subject  by  this
Post,  should  your  Excellency  think  proper  to  grant  us  warrants
for  two  months'  Salary  in  addition  to  those  we  have  already  drawn.*


XLIV.    North  Carolina  Delegates  to  Governor  Caswell.'
^.  Philadelphia,  June  14th,  1787.
By  the  date  of  this  you  will  observe  we  are  near  the  middle  of
June  and  though  we  sit  from  day  to  day,  Saturdays  included,  it  is
not  possible  for  us  to  determine  when  the  business  before  us  can  be
finished,  a  very  large  Field  presents  to  our  view  without  a  single
Straight  or  eligible  Road  that  has  been  trodden  by  the  feet  of  Nations.
An  Union  of  Sovereign  States,  preserving  their  Civil  Liberties  and
connected  together  by  such  Tyes  as  to  Preserve  permanent  &  eflFec-
tive  Governments  is  a  system  not  described,  it  is  a  Circumstance
that  has  not  Occurred  in  the  History  of  men;  if  we  shall  be  so  fortu-
nate as  to  find  this  in  descript  our  Time  will  have  been  well  spent.
