The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-18
The Constitution Of The United States By Daniel Davenport 1 Speech Delivered Bridge
 

It Is Interesting to that on September 18th, 1887 Daniel Davenport. in responding tho tior of tho United states' delivered of mos mel~orob., addresses of that time.
 The substance of the address. potent in it. In- terest and as informing is follows
 "on Monday, September IT. l787. the dele gates who framed the Constitution of the United States met together in convention for the last time The brief record that rlains of that days session Is Of great historic interest.
 rom the 2sth of May preceding, they had been in continuous, ahueuEr and secret session euderor- pe which they au believed was destined to become t4e greatest nation ou the earth should they eeed In forming it Consultation adapted to it's
 The conflict of the reprcscutcr iutercsts-sec- be great and tho diversity of views among the ind~Iduol delegates wide that repeatedly during tho- ume they had been the point of 1isband- ing from conviction of tho mposSihiiitics of agree single point At last by a series arrange the assent of majority of the delegates from each of the i2 States represented had been secured to the provisions embodied in tho constitution after wards ratified These had been referred to Gov erneur Morris as committee on style, who save to them tNe.r present admirable arrangement and rhe- torcal finish Ills report engrossed was that day 10 be finally adopted and authenticated. preparatory to its promulgaHon to the country and the recon mcudatiou of the convention.
 was thought by those who had finally quiosccd in its provisions that tho prospect of it's ratification by the requisite number of States to put it in operation extremely doubtful, that they anxious f possible secure to it in some form or other the signatures of those distin- Euishod members of the convention, sixteen in It. might not appear at least from the tl'' or the instrument that t the work bore the approval of but majority of the delegates from any State
 Accordingly tho ambiguous form oI Sunscrlp- ton affixed to the Constitution it stands: Done in convention by the unanimous consent of the States present In witness whereof have hrrcunto sub sCrihed names had been drawn by Cover Morris and handed to Dr. Franklin to propose with the view of gaining the dissenting members.
 The history of our country, rich as it is in scenes, striking and forever memorable, affords no spectacle impressive that presented when the great diplomat philosopher and patriot rose to per tNis. his last great national service
 There upon the table before him lay that in stru1uont yet imperative paper, which in a short months destined to become the fun dameutal all the teeming millions who in the O to iI&-Iabit the Western world What far-rcachng conseqU~ ces to the whole human race were wrapped up in that short paper!
 Within were clauses. by which millions of hu- man beings doomed to hopeless slavery, with it's degrading and terrible consequences for the three quarters of century. Within 1t were other clauses by which. when the evil of slavery should reached the limit set to it in the r-ro- vidance of God, 1t was to be swept away as by the bosom destruction.
 Within the lifetime of persons then living, two millions of to engage, and a f4lt a mil lion were to die. armed and fratricidai conflict the interpretation of Its provisions Every law thereafter to be enacted and contract there after to be made in all this broad land were to be it, and until the last wave or humanity had dashed upon the shore of the world and disappeared it's effects to cease to be oper- ative fin human affairs
 le in silence. leaning his staff for he found it difHcult Co remain long on his feet His body was arduous toll in the service of his country ana or mankind. but his mind was still clear and brlsht and sparkling and his manner winning as Whe years before hc had captvated the men and bewltcheu the women of tr1e Court France His intellectual at faf1nents were immense, but "he bore all that weight re learning like a flower and his unrialled fame both heuispheres served or'y 10 Ie'iueI HIS 'ou esty moro conspicuous.