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Today in history, on July 31, 1788, President of the first North Carolina Ratification Convention, Samuel Johnston, stood in Hillsborough and reluctantly conceded that the convention was unlikely to ratify the Constitution. “We may indeed appoint ambassadors to...
Today in History, on July 31, 1788, President of the first North Carolina Ratification Convention, Samuel Johnston, stood in Hillsborough and reluctantly conceded that the convention was unlikely to ratify the Constitution: “We may indeed appoint ambassadors to...