Identifier: magazineofamericv13stev (find matches)
Title: The magazine of American history with notes and queries
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Stevens, John Austin, 1827-1910. ed. cn DeCosta, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1831-1904. ed. cn Johnston, Henry Phelps, 1842-1923, ed. cn Lamb, Martha J. (Martha Joanna), 1829-1893. ed. cn Pond, Nathan Gillett, 1832-1894 ed Abbatt, William, 1851-1935, comp
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Publisher: New York : A.S. Barnes
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also the guest of honor at a stately dinner-partygiven by Dr. Franklin, on which occasion a cask of porter fresh from Londonwas broached, and its contents, wrote Franklin, met with a most cordialreception and universal approbation. Franklin was then eighty-one years of age, and Washington fifty-five.Franklin was of average height, stooping a little as he walked, full, broadphysique, and benign, spectacled countenance.* His intellect was neverclearer, more acute, more active, more fruitful. Washington stood six * This Magazine has recently published (IX. 401, XII. 14.) two portraits of Franklin. THE FRAMERS OF THE CONSTITUTION 317 feet and three inches in his slippers, as straight as an arrow, and was evenlydeveloped. He had a long muscular arm, and a singularly large hand.His gravity and sublime self-poise were as notable as Dr. Franklins wit,anecdotes and whimsicalities.* Each of the two was gifted with worldlywisdom in liberal measure, and each had in his own line of the public ser-
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THOMAS MIFFLIN. vice won world-wide fame. To a country groping in the dark for politicalguidance the successful soldier and the eminent diplomat were radiantbeacon lights. The Convention was not formally organized until Friday,May 25, and then, as soon as the preliminary business was concluded, it * This Magazine has published at different dates fourteen portraits of Washington. (III. 81,465, IV. 1, V. 85, VI. 81, VII. 80, X. 177, XL 513, XII. 550, 552.J 3 IS THE FRAMERS OF THE CONSTITUTION adjourned until Monday. Pennsylvania gracefully proposed Washingtonas the President of the Assemblage, a ceremony that was to have beenperformed by Franklin in person, had not a severe rain storm preventedhis attendance on the occasion. Robert Morris made the motion, whichwas promptly seconded by John Rutledge, of South Carolina, and Wash-ington was placed in the chair. Franklin was in his seat on Monday, andattended the Convention regularly, five hours every day afterwards forfour months, his frie

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