Bisbee daily review., 1913-05-13

20 WcTS paTuAmenIaILaQ cOUlQ 1AFe given that anxious body such steadi- ness in business of such grave earn estness in counsel as it got from his presence and influence in the chair.
 Five more states were in attendance before deliberation was very far ad- vanced; but he had the satisfaction to see his own friends lead upon the floor.
 Washlnaton's Friends Lead.
 It was the plan which Edmund Ran dolph proposed. for his fellow Virgin fans, which the convention accepted as a model to work from; 1t was James Madison, that young master of coun- sel, who guided the deliberations from day to day, little as he showed his hand in the work or seemed to put himself forward in debate.
 No speeches came from the presi- dent; only once or twice did he break the decorum of his office to temper some difference of opinion or facilitate some measure of accommodation.
 It was the 17th of September when the convention at last broke up; the 18th when the Constitution it had wrought out was published to the country.
 All the slow summer through Washington had kept counsel with the rest as to the anxious work that was going forward behind the closed doors of the long conference: 1t was a grateful relief to be rid of the pain. full strain, and he returned to Mount Vernon like one whose part in the work was done
 Keen for New Government. q never saw him so keen for any, thing in my life as he is for the adop, tion of the new scheme of govern rnent,' wrote visitor at Mount Yer. non to Jefferson; but he took no other part than his correspondence afforded 1 him in the agitation for it's acceptance Throughout all those long four 1 months in Philadelphia he had given 1 his whole mind and energy to every i had been wrought to completion; but he was no politician. Earnestly as he | commended the plan to his friends, he took no public part either in defense or in advocacy of it.
 He read not only the Federalist pa
 pers, in which Hamilton and Aadi. son and Jay made their masterly plea for the adoption of the Constitution but also every performance which has
 been printed on the one side and the other on the great question" he said
 so far as he was able 10 obtain them; and he felt as poignantly as any mar the deep excitement of the moment l ous contest
 It disturbed him keenly to find George Mason opposing the coEstitu. tion-the dear friend from whom he had always accepted counsel hitherto | in public affairs-and Richard Henry
 Lee and Patrick Henry, too, in their passionate attachment to what they
 deemed the just sovereignty of Vir- | ginia. ~
 He could turn away with all his old
 self-possession, nevertheless, to dis cuss questions of culture and tillage,
 in ths midst of the struggle, with AT. thur Young over sea, and to write
 very gallant compliments to the Mar.
 quis de Chastellux on his marriage. Compliments the Marquis. So your day has at length come" he laughed. T am glad of it with all
 my heart and soul. It is quite good
 enough for you. Now you are well
 served for coming to fight in favor of f the American rebels all the way across the Atlantic ocean, by catching that
 terrible contagion-domestic felicity
 which, like the smallpox, or the
 plague, a man can have only once in
 his life, because it commonly lasts him | tat least with us in America-I don't
 know how you manage such matters in France) for his whole lifetime"
 Ten months of deep but quiet asi- tation-the forces of opinion in close ! grapple-and the future seemed to ! clear.
 The constitution was adopted, only two states dissenting.
 It had been a tense and stubborn