The public services of Gouverneur Morris to 1787 . ial was at nanc;, was onetnat the ^-orld had never before witnessed. Another great diiiiculty that the Convention had to con-tend with was tiie diversitied interests represented in its person-nel. But few men r^^aiized the meaning of the word union in its fui:significance. Special interest naa unselfishness crov;ded out ofthe creed of the average d^iegRte. ^Jtate jealo^;3ies 7;ore rife,depending not only on oomparitive size, but also iipon locationand economic development. So we fina tne large state party opposedto the small etate loarty; tne
The public services of Gouverneur Morris to 1787 . ial was at nanc;, was onetnat the ^-orld had never before witnessed. Another great diiiiculty that the Convention had to con-tend with was tiie diversitied interests represented in its person-nel. But few men r^^aiized the meaning of the word union in its fui:significance. Special interest naa unselfishness crov;ded out ofthe creed of the average d^iegRte. ^Jtate jealo^;3ies 7;ore rife,depending not only on oomparitive size, but also iipon locationand economic development. So we fina tne large state party opposedto the small etate loarty; tne north againnt the sonth; and the ag~riculti^ral class opposed to the oomrerciPi class. ?iach class ral-lied to the ^Trotection of its ovra mtrrests, caring now otherstates might suf7:er. it was only oy coraproraisns, urged by the mostdisinterested and xrr-seeing of the r-emibers, that the Jonstitutionwas finally evolved. It is notieeable that the men who were the mopt dis-interested, wno were the most iinselfish, and wno looked not so much i. 52 to the interest of the few as tc the good of the many, were the menwho ranked as the leaders of the Convention. The men vjno laboredfor a special interest, v/hether siioessful or not, V7ere not mmberedamong the most prominent statesmen. ^hey may have had great ahilitjiand great infliience, but beca^Tse of the misuse they made or their italents, they are relegated to comparitive obscurity. The Convention inolrder? in its roll many men of markedquality. Some one has aaid hat of the tv^^o great periods in our ;history the Civil War brought forth great generals, while the periodof independence brought forth great statesmen, ?^hat v.^hich thetime especially demanded was produced in each instance. To seeus through the troublous times of our birth the nation demandedgreat statesmen, and one o^ the results of their labors was theConstitution, The government had to be built from widely scatteredmaterials, and in the face of opposition by ma
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