The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-18

remained standing until he had concluded. Wash -"S'on "5s then Htty-five years of in the full maturity of his powers and of his frame His ap- peaFance was not widely different from the repre- sentatOn of him in Stuarrs portrait aIthoupb trat h was not painted until eiht years later The calm ,.shlty' the serene repose that had characterized deepened by the cares and trials and responsibi- tleS of seven long years of revolutionary warfare mo mo Ronan sternness and majesty. His conduct during the proceedings Convention up to that tune had Illustrated his characteristic reticence for the question according parliamentary usage It is related of John Adams that the latter part of his LIe as he was walking through the library of liar ward college, he shown a O Washington and ore of himself standing side by After looking aL W them Tor while he said pointing to the bust of Washington: There knew how to keep his mouth shut, which that d-d fool" point world can be searched in for more significant and interesting scene than this. of the great as they thus stood facing each other with the con- sututon lying between them. Around them were gathered an assemhlaEe of the most remarkable of the revolutionary and revolutionary age
 There was John Ruuedgc, of South Carolina the foremost scholar and the jurst If the South, by all regarded the equal by many the superior of Patrick Henry natural There that celebrated address the King. which l-or1 Chatham pronounced to be the State paper of ancient modern times There was Robert Mar his, the great fnancier of the Revolution, who had pledged his private fortune in aid of the by being suffered by his countrymen cast in to jail for debt and to die of absolute There
 
 European Universities, and the correspondent of half the learned of Europe. There was William Samuel Johnson, of Stratford, who had degree of Doctor of Laws conferred upon him by the Uni erstty of Oxford for his emminent talents and at taiumeuts. There James Madison. the fourth President of the United States, and there was that prodigy of Alexander Hamilton The whole couven- tion was composed of men such these, the picked of the country.
 To them, pr. Franklin, said in substance, that while he did not then approve of some of tho pro- visions of the Constitution he not that he never should approve of them; that he had lived long and repeatedly had occasion to change his mind especially in public affairs about questions upon which his opn Jns had been formed after long and careful deliberatOu and he supposed with plete informa tion that the longer he lied the he entertained for the opinions others and his own; that Steel in of declar- ations tells Jhe Pope that the only difference be- tween the Church of Rome and the Church of Eng doctrines, is that while the Church of Rome is in faIIfble. O England wrong; that few persons express their confidence in their own Judgment so naturally as a certain French lady who after a dispute with her sister said: 'I don't know how it is, but somehow I never find person who is always right except myself" that with these sentiments in view, he should suscribe to this Constitution. And he entreated all the members with him because he believed that imprfecet the Constitution might be 1t the best which could be obtained, and that he saw before them as the alternative of not adopting this Constitution, anarchy, civil and in the end military despO- tisrn. General Washington then dec7red as he took I'D the pen to sign. President that should States reject this excellent Constitution oppor- tunity will be afforded them to form another fin it's place. The will be drawn in blood"
 The effect produced by the words of Washing ton and Franklin such that of the sixteen dis senting membe-s suscribed with the exception of three. Governor Randolph and George Mason of Nir- Einia. and Elbrfdge Gerry of Massachusetts testation purity his motives in thus refus- ing sign Governor Randolph said that at the Judgment Bar of God for other act of his life, his reliance was upon mercy of God, but for this he asked only His justice