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MR. JAM. BECK ON AMERICA." months after it begau, bia notes cenael with Continuing his interesting survey of July 5th. The world would thus have been American history, and of the hearing of for over ignorant of one of the most her institutions on international relations, remarkable Conventions, in the annals of the Hon. James M. Beck, Solicitor-General mankind had it not been that one of the of the United States, in his second adress ablest of their number, James Madison,

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died in 1886, and four years later the the outset of his addres. Government purchased the manuscript Mr. Beck, outlined the

Convention great constitutional and its personel, which hej

he described as a from his widow, Thon; for the first convention of young men. It revealed, he time, the curtain was measurably raised saich, a

who without shedding a drop upon the proceedings of a Convention, of blood,

abolished which had created, as they now knew, and deliberately one Government, sabstitute another, one of the greatest nations in history. erected it upon foundations which had Fifty-three years after the close of the hitherto proved enduring. Even the stracture slowly created upon the found. Convention, and when nearly every one of ALUUTTA LINE - This Line affords regular sailings to Calentas, Penang and

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the world's journal was published. When was a great most changing periodange in history, and until recently its auditions, secret better kept Grateful as posterity. few in number, had vari! little from must be for this inestimable gift of a great the plans of the original architects. The hinnan enterprise, yet eren Madison's foundations were laid at a

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thirteen jealous and discordant States,

ras so opposed to modern democratic demoralised by an exhausting war, into a conventions and which so little resembled unified and efficient nation against their the famous point na to open covenants wills,

impossible task. seemingly was Its final ent had blinded the openly arrived," the Convention could "noti

have accompished its great work. difficulty work! to the problem. The time was May 25th, 1787;

MODERN DEMOCRACY. the place, the State House in Philadelphia. a little town of not more than 20,00 It was evident that if the framers of the" people, and, at that time, as remote to the Constitution had wet, as similar Conven- BANGLOT centres of civilisation as now is Vivostock. tions had within recent years met at Ver. The dramatis person in this drama, sailles and Genea, with the world as their dough few in numbers were, however gallery and with the representatives of the worthy of the task,

Seventy-two had Press as an integral part of the conference, originally been offered or given credentials, they would have accomplished nothing. for each State was permitted to send as The probability was that the Convention many delegates as it pleased, inasmuch as the States were to vote in the Convention would not have lasted a mouth if their Of thes, the greatest actual iuediate purpose had been to plicate "It may be doubled." attendance was fifty five, and at the end current opinion. of the Convention saving remnant Mr. Beck observed, "whether such a Con only thirty-nine remained to finish a work rention it called today either in your which was to immortalise ita parti conntry or mine could achieve liko re-

as units.

While this notable

of men

a few merchants, franciers, farters, line alts, for in this day of unlimited tors, educators, and soldiers, of the remain publicity, when men, divide not as in- der at least thirty-one were lawyers, and of lividuals but in powerful and organis these many had been justices of the healed groups, a constitutional Convention courts and exceative officers of the common would, I fear, prove a witches cauldron of It is wealths. At least twenty-two were college class legislation and demagogism. graduates. A for dready enjorel world-not possible that modern democracy is in wid fame, notally Doctor Franklin,"pager of strangulation by its present-day sibly the moet versatile genius of the methods and ideals?". Working" with a eighteenth century and universally known sad sincerity and with despair in their and honoured as a scientist, philosopher, hearts, this little band of men wrought a and diplomat, and George Washington, work of surpassing importance, and if they whose fame, eren at that lay, had filled the did not receive the immediate plaudits of world with the noble purity of his character. the living generation, their shades could It was a convention of coniparatively young at least solace themselves with the reflection men, the average age being little above 40 that posterity had acclaimed their work as rear Franklin was the oldest member,

one of the greatest achievements of man. being then 81; Dayton the youngest, being The lecturer afterwards outlined the plans 27. Washington had warmly welcomed that were delated earnestly and at times the creation of a strong central government, bitterly in the Convention as to the and his correspondence with the leading form of Constitution. It spoke well, he said.. men of, the Colonies for yo year for the honour of the delegates that previously had been burdened with argalthough their differences became an acute ments to convince them that a mere Imago as to lead to bitter recriminations, neither of States would not suffice to create a stable el divulged then to the outside public. nation. While still waiting for the C(Hear, hear.) The smaller States could veption to meet, and while discussing what easily bare ended the Convention by an was expedient and practicable when they did mect, Washington one day said to group of delegates, who were considering the acute nature of the crisis:

appeal to publie opinion, which was not then prepared for a consolidated union,” but they were logal enough to fight out their quarrels within the walls of the Con- It is too probable that no plan that wevention. hall. "In the absence of any propose will be adopted. Perhaps another authentic information," Mr. Beck proceed. dreadful conflict is to be sustained. Ifed, the rumour spread through the to please the people, we offer what we our selves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work? Let us rise a standard to which the wise and just can repair. The event is in the hand of God."*

PRESS AND CONVENTIONS.

When the Celegates from nine States tad assembled Washington, was unani- mously elected the presiding officer of the Convention. The most significant rule adopted was the provision for secrecy. The rule of secrecy was enlarged by an unwrit ten understanding that, even when the Convention had adjourned, no disclosure should be mule of its proceedings during the life of its members... When, after nearly four months, the Convention ad journed, the secret had been kept, and no one knew even the concrete result of its deliberations until the Constitution itself, and nothing else, was offered to the ap- proval of the people. The highway upon which the State House fronted covered with earth to deaden the noise

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Clonies that the Convention was about to reconstitate a monarchy by inviting the second son of George III, the Bishop of Osaaburg, to be King of the United States, and these rumours became so persistent as to evoke from the silent Convention a semi-official denial. There

some reason to believe that a con aiderable uinority of the Convention did see in the restoration of a constitutional monarchy the only solution of the fro blem." On Sept. 1oth the work of draft- ing the Constitution was regarded as ended, and it was adopted and ordered to be engrossed for signing. The career of the new nation thus formed had been a Deliberately rising and not a setting sun. formed in the light of reason and without blood or passion, it was to-day, by common consent, one of the greatest and, he trusted he might add, one of the noblest republics of all time:

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