Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . ure in Continentalpolitics. In that year the prospect of war with the French led several of the royal governors to callfor a congress of all the colonies, to be held at Al-bany. The primary purpose of the meeting was tomake sure of the friendship of the Six Nations, andto organize a general scheme of operations againstthe French. The secondary purpose was to preparesome plan of confederation which all the coloniesmight be persuaded to adopt. Only the four NewEngland colonies, with New York, Pennsylvania,and Maryland, sent commissioners to this cong
Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . ure in Continentalpolitics. In that year the prospect of war with the French led several of the royal governors to callfor a congress of all the colonies, to be held at Al-bany. The primary purpose of the meeting was tomake sure of the friendship of the Six Nations, andto organize a general scheme of operations againstthe French. The secondary purpose was to preparesome plan of confederation which all the coloniesmight be persuaded to adopt. Only the four NewEngland colonies, with New York, Pennsylvania,and Maryland, sent commissioners to this people seem to have felt very little interest inthe movement. Among the newspapers none seemto have favored it warmly except the Pennsyl-vania Gazette, which appeared with a union de-vice and the motto Unite or Die! At the Al-bany congress Franklin brought forward the firstcoherent scheme ever propounded for securing apermanent Federal union of the thirteen colonies. IllllllllllllllllllUllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllliNC. UNITE OR DIE ^mmmmmmmmmmmmimm The plan contemplated the union of all the colo-nies under a single central government, underwhich each colony might preserve its local inde-pendence. The legislative assembly of each colonywas to choose, once in three years, representativesto attend a Federal grand council, which was tomeet every year at Philadelphia, as the city mostconvenient of access from north and south grand council was to choose its own speaker,and could neither be dissolved nor prorogued ex-cept by its own consent, or by especial order of thecrown. The grand council was to make treatieswith the Indians, and regulate trade with them;and it was to have sole power of legislation on allmatters concerning the colonies as a whole. Tothese ends it could lay taxes, enlist soldiers, buildforts, and nominate civil officers. Its laws were tobe submitted to the king for approval; and theroyal veto, in order to be effective, must be ex
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