The Constitution is now before the judgment-seat.

It has, as was expected, its adversaries and supporters.

Which will preponderate is yet to be decided.

The former more than probably will be most active, as the major part of them will, it is to be feared, be governed by sinister and self-important motives, to which everything in their breasts must yield....
The other class, he said, would probably ask itself whether the Constitution now submitted was not better than the inadequate and precarious government under which they had been living.

If there were defects, as doubtless there were, did it not provide means for amending them?
Then he concludes with a gleam of optimism: ...