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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1844. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... SECRET PROCEEDINGS OF THE FEDERAL CONVENTION. To the Hon. Thomas Cockey Deye, Speaker of the House of Delegates of Maryland. Sir, I Flatter myself the subject of this letter will be a sufficient apology for thus publicly addressing it to you, and through you to the other members of the House of Delegates. It cannot have escaped your or their recollection, that, when called upon, as the servant of a free State, to render an account of those transactions in which I had had a share, in consequence of the trust reposed in me by that State, among other things, I informed them, "that some time in July, the honorable Mr. Yates and Mr. Lansing of New York, left the convention; that they had uniformly opposed the system, and that, I believe, despairing of getting a proper one brought forward, or of rendering any real service, they returned no more." You cannot, Sir, have forgot, for the incident was too remarkable not to have made some impression, that, upon my giving this information, the zeal of one of my honorable colleagues in favor of a system, which I thought it my duty to oppose, impelled him to interrupt me, and, in a manner which I am confident his zeal alone prevented him from being convinced was not the most delicate, to insinuate pretty strongly, that the statement which I had given of the conduct of those gentlemen, and their motives for not returning, were not candid. Those honorable members have officially given information on this subject, by a joint letter to his Excellency Governor Clinton. It is published. Indulge me, Sir, in giving an extract from it, that it may stand contrasted in the same page with the information I gave, and may convict me of the want of candor of which I was charged, if the charge was just. If it will not do that, then let it sil...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781151235299
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 88
  • Spine Width: 5 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1151235296
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 172 gr


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