Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . Never, perhaps, had any body ofmen combined for so great a purpose—toform a constitution which was to rule sonumerous a people, and probably duringso many generations. The members, con-sisti
Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . Never, perhaps, had any body ofmen combined for so great a purpose—toform a constitution which was to rule sonumerous a people, and probably duringso many generations. The members, con-sisting of the very ablest men in America,were not unworthy of, nor unequal to, sohigh a trust. Towering above all these men of might,in his world-wide fame and in the geniusof his personal ascendency, was Washing-ton, intrusted by the commonwealth ofVirginia with the work of cementing to-gether the sisterhood of states in one in-dissoluble bond of mutual interest, co-ope-ration, and renown. And there was RufusKing, from Massachusetts, 3-oung in years,but mature in wisdom and brilliant in ora-tory; Langdon, from New Hampshire,strong in his understanding and readilymastering the most intricate details ; El-bridge Gerry, of Massachusetts, exhibitingthe utmost zeal and fidelity in the per-formance of his official duties; CalebStrong, from the same state, plain in his 134 OUR FIRST CENTURY.— CONTESTIOJf AT PHILADELPHIA, 1787. appearance, but calm, firm, intelligent, andwell-balanced; Ellsworth, from Connecti-cut, elegant in his manners, and distin-guished for his energy of mind, clearreasoning powers, and effective eloquence ;Sherman, his colleague, a statesman andjurist whose fame has extended far beyondthe western world; Hamilton, from NewYork, spare and fragile in person, butkeen, active, laborious, transcendent inhis abilities and of unsullied integrity;Livingston, from New Jersey, of scholarlytastes, uncompromisingly republican in hispolitics, and fearless in the exp
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