Punishments inflicted by the people at large disapproved by the Convention

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And this Convention strongly impressed with an idea of the confusion and disorder which must inevitably ensue, and the disunion which must necessarily follow from the people at large being collected and inflicting punishments before a cool and temperate investigation of the case; and consequently the injury which may be thereby done to the common, cause of liberty, confide, that the virtue of the people, and their attachment to the liberties of America, will guard them against a commission of the excess apprehended.

Convention adjourns till to-morrow morning, eight o' clock.