The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1875-11-03

should tle p.Sses-- attempt TO cOnSonuate IL,
prove abortive. Among those personages,
the most prominent was DR.. Franklin. He
was esteemed the mentor of our body. To a
mind naturally strong and capacious, en-
ricIied By much readTng, saicf The experiences
of many years, he added a manner Of commu-
nicating his thoughts, peculiarly his own, in
which simplicity, beauty, and strength, were
equally conspicuous. AS soon as the angry
orators, WHO had preceded him, had left him
an opening, the doctor rose, evidently Impress
ed with the weight of the subject before
them, and the difficulty OF managing it sue
cessfully. 90 We have arrived, Mr.. president"
said he, cat very momentous and interest
ing crisis in our deliberations. Hitherto our
views have been as harmonious, and our pro-
gress as great, as could reasonably have been
expected. But now an unlooked-for and
formidable obstacle is thrown in our way,
which threatens to arrest our course, and if
not slkillfully removed, to render all our fond
hopes of a constitution abortive. The ground
which has been taken by the delegates Of the
four smaller states was as unexpected by me,
and as repugnant to my feelings, as it can be
to any other member of this convention.
After what thought full and impartial in
vestigation of the subject, recorded my vote
in the affirmative side of the question, and l
have not yet heard anything which induces
me to change my opinion. But l will not
conclude it is impossible for me to be wrong
will not say that those gentlemen who differ
from me are under delusion much less will
charge them with an intention of needlessly
embarrassing our deliberations. 1t is posi-
BILE some change in our late proceedings ought
to take place upon principles of political JUS
tice or that, all things considered, the ma
iority may see cause to recede from some of
their Just pretensions as matter of prudence
and expediency. For my own part, there is
nothing / so much dread, as failure to de-
wise and establish some efficient and equal
form of government for our infant republic.
| The present effort has been made under the
happiest auspices, and has promised the most
favorable results but should this effort prove
vain, it will be long ere another can be made
with any prospect of success. Our strength
and our prosperity will depend on our unity
anu tltt StCc6olOl Vi CFCh iOhl VI VIC o''AniOos
states, interspersed as they are, would, in my
mind paralyze and render useless any plan
which the majority could devise. l should,
therefore, be greved, Mr.. president, to see
matters brought to the test, which has been,
perhaps too rashly, threatened on the one
hand and which some of my honored col
leagues have treated to lightly on the other.
/ am convinced that it is subject which
should be approached with caution, treated
with tenderness, and decided ON with candoi
and liberality. 1t is however, to be feared,
that the members of this convention are not
in temper at this moment, to approach the
subject on which we differ in this spirit.
would therefore propose Mr.. president, that
without proceeding farther in this business al
4 this time, the convention shall adjourned for
three days, in order to let the present fermeni
pass off, and to afford time for a more ful
and dispassonate investigation of the subject
and / would earnestly recommend to The
members of this convention, that they spend
the time of this recess, not in associating will
their own party, and deyising new argument.
to fortify themselves in their own opin' ons
but that they mix with members Of opposite
sentiments lend patient ear to their reason