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Page 385 - William Paterson. Jonathan Dayton. Pennsylvania Benjamin Franklin. Thomas Mifflin. Robert Morris. George Clymer. Thomas Fitzsimmons. Jared Ingersoll. James Wilson. Gouverneur Morris. Delaware George Read. Gunning Bedford. John Dickinson. Richard Bassett. Jacob Broom. Maryland James McHenry. Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer. Daniel Carroll.
Page 351 - wish that the four latest, whichever they may be, may refuse to accede to it till a declaration of rights be annexed; but no objection to the new form must produce a schism in our Union." But as soon as he heard of the
Page 62 - be divided and subdivided into little commonwealths or principalities, according to natural boundaries, by great bays of the sea, and by vast rivers, lakes, and ridges of mountains." Such were the views of a liberalminded philosopher who bore us no
Page 25 - boundary contained some inaccuracies which were revealed by later surveys, and the map used by Oswald was lost. Hence a further question arose between Great Britain and the United States, which was finally settled by the Ashburton treaty in 1842. The Americans retained the right of catching fish on the banks of Newfoundland and in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, but
Page 386 - Williamson. South Carolina John Rutledge. Charles Cotesworth Pinckney. Charles Pinckney. Pierce Butler. Georgia William Few. Abraham Baldwin. William Pierce. William Houston. Of those who signed their names to the Federal Constitution, the
Page 282 - nations cannot be rewarded or punished in the next world, they must be in this. By an inevitable chain of causes and effects, Providence punishes national sins by national calamities.
Page 56 - that the period of five years following the peace of 1783 was the most critical moment in all the history of the American people. The dangers from which we were saved in 1788 were even greater than the dangers from which we were saved in 1865.
Page 385 - John Dickinson. Richard Bassett. Jacob Broom. Maryland James McHenry. Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer. Daniel Carroll. John Francis Mercer. Luther Martin. Virginia George Washington. EDMUND RANDOLPH. John Blair. James Madison.
Page 349 - Boston Gazette" came out with a warning, headed by enormous capitals with three exclamation-points : " Bribery and Corruption ! ! ! The most diabolical plan is on foot to corrupt the members of the convention who oppose the adoption of the new Constitution. Large sums of money have been brought from a neighbouring state
Page 322 - law, — each with its legislature, its executive, and its judiciary moving one within the other, noiselessly and without friction. It was one of the longest reaches of constructive statesmanship ever known in the world. There never was anything quite like it before, and in Europe it needs