The public services of Gouverneur Morris to 1787 . f government, and labor-ed earnestly for the welfare of the nation; therefore he interestedhimself in every question that came before the Convention, no mat-ter how trivif9l it might be. He was a natural .rator, as V/illiamPierce said, Morris was one of those geniuses in whom every spec-ies of talent combine to render him conspicuous and flourishing inpublic debate (2). He made good use of this talent for debate, forno man spokp more in the Convention than did Trouverneur Morris (3).Pierce also said that no one had more wit, nor could engage t
The public services of Gouverneur Morris to 1787 . f government, and labor-ed earnestly for the welfare of the nation; therefore he interestedhimself in every question that came before the Convention, no mat-ter how trivif9l it might be. He was a natural .rator, as V/illiamPierce said, Morris was one of those geniuses in whom every spec-ies of talent combine to render him conspicuous and flourishing inpublic debate (2). He made good use of this talent for debate, forno man spokp more in the Convention than did Trouverneur Morris (3).Pierce also said that no one had more wit, nor could engage theattention more than ; his brilliant intellect could discernclearly the fundamentals of every argument, and bringing them tolight make the labor of reasoning lazy and pleasing to hislisteners, ^is princir^les v-ere usually permianent ones, but, never-theless, if in tne course of the debate he saw the error of hisposition, he ouickly admitted it. fl) Sparks, III, 361. (2) ?arrand. Records, III, 92. (3) Roosevelt, Couverneur , Morris believed in a strong national government. YJhenhe was first a member of the Provincial Congress of New York, hehad urged allegiance in all matters to the Continental Congress, aposition in advance of most of his contemporaries. During the per-iod under the Confederation he constantly bewailed the lack of powerin tho national government, and he said that 1 hat very defect wouldforce a reform. He came to the Convention still more firmly in-trenched in hiB nationalistic attitude, with a strong determinationto secure a powerful and permanent union in place of the loose fed-eral league. In the fir^t few days of the Convention he pointed out the distinction between a national and federal government, the former having a compulsive and comr;lete operation, while thelatter was a mere compact resting on the good faith of the urged that a supreme national government shoiild be establish-ed fl). On this basis of desiring to
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