The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787/Volume 3/Appendix A/CCXXXVII
ⅭⅭⅩⅩⅩⅦ. Charles Pinckney to Rufus King.[1]
Charleston, January 26, 1789.
You know I always preferred the election by the legislature, to that of the people, & I will now venture to pronounce that the mode which you & Madison & some others so thoroughly contended for & ultimately carried is the greatest blot in the constitution[2]—of this however more hereafter.