Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-22

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constrained to accept Of the presidents
chair. Hence the proceedings Of the con-
vention will more Immediately be appro-
We're the conventlon to propose per only
amendments and patchwork to the present
detectiye confederation, your reputation
getic and judicious system to be proposed
with your signature II would be a clrcum-
stance highly honorable to your fame in the
judgment. OF the present and future ages,
publican !epithet. The Father OF Your
Subsequent events but strengthen the be-
lief that Knox had truly fathomed. the
mind of Washington that the. confedera-
union UNDER new national government be
PEELED his hesitation and. Washington was
received in Philadelphia with honors be-
coming his fame g..
Meeting of Convention. -
The convention had been called to meet
on the 14th of May, but II adjourned from
day to day to the 25th of the month, await
ing the arrival of d quorum. on that date
had arrived. These twenty-nine men. who
were mostly. Of the grand stalwarts for
fSeistiy WorR.a Beg gGxeTnm FFsnkI RToe ySSsTab to
with age and wisdom, was expected to
nominate Washington for president, but he
Was uGldlutu at nOIle UY lnIlTI1lIN.H
But there was Robert Morris, who had
supplied the money which enabled Wash
lngton to complete the great campaign at
~ihtendent- Of finance had by every ingenuity
supported the brilliant work, which began
At the Gs9Xpens and ended at Yorktown:
Franklin, should move that George WASH
ington should be elected president. Sc
boasts Of SeTr John Adams e HSssSSnHSt Of
her Ellsworth, New York OF her Jay, Penn
sylvania Of her Wilson, Delaware of her
Bayard, Virginia of her Henry, South Caro-
lima rests her claim on the talents and elo-
quence of John RutledgeSi II was he who
rose and seconded the motion, and George
ballot and conducted TO the presiding chair.
George Washington had not forgotten his
S AsWSerf lie eir stlIi held % the the sams iofty q ssh she
ments of strongly cementing union In a
vigorous government. He arose from the
above the convention and Said to the states
men seated before him;
1T is too probable that no plan we shall
dreadful conflict Is TO be sustained. II I'd
please the people we ofer what we our:
Defend our WORK. Let us raise a standard
to which the wise and honest can repair.
The event is i'm the hands of Cod.
1t was a warning to the convention that
trifing and faltering with, the supreme
sHvereignties OF the states was wicked and
dangerous; 1t was an appeal to abandon
al hOHO VI Clhd Nh0 ONa ~ NA1Ao VI AAu
confederacy and to. create a new national
government.
An American historian has justly said OF
II: ut was an immortal speech, which
ought to be blazoned in letters, of gold and
posted on the wall of every American as
sembly that shall meet to nominate a can
didate, or declare a policy, or pass "a law
so long as the weakness shall endure"
Adoption of the Constitution 4,
But 1 must pass over the work of the
convention and drop a thought upon the in.
huence of Washington In having the con
stitution adopted by the people Of tbs
states. Then again opposition manifested
itself in a more vigorous form. There wert
disturbances IN Pennsylvania. There Merl
riots in New York. Patrick Henry taIkeI
OF forming a southern confederacy. II was
the supreme influence of George Washing
ton, united with the wisdom of Madison
and the elocuence of Randolph, thai saveC
Virginia, and which united with the poweri
OF Hamilton and Jay that overcome the
stubborn resistance NJ Governor Clinton
and Melancthon Smith in New York /
was the faith of the people In the resplen