[1044] Ib., 668.
[1045] "A Real Patriot," in Independent Gazetteer, reprinted in McMaster and Stone, 524.
[1046] "Gomes," in ib., 527.
[1047] H. Chapman to Stephen Collins, June 20, 1788; MS., Lib. Cong. Oswald, like Thomas Paine, was an Englishman.
[1048] Madison to Jefferson, Feb. 19, 1788; Writings: Hunt, v, 102.
[1049] Madison to Jefferson, Feb. 19, 1788; Writings: Hunt, v, 101.
[1050] Gore to Thatcher, June 9, 1788; Hist. Mag. (2d Series), vi, 263. This was a very shrewd move; for Hancock had not yet been won over to the Constitution; he was popular with the protesting delegates, and perhaps could not have been defeated had they made him their candidate for presiding officer; the preferment flattered Hancock's abnormal vanity and insured the Constitutionalists against his active opposition; and, most of all, this mark of their favor prepared the way for the decisive use the Constitutionalist leaders finally were able to make of him. Madison describes Hancock as being "weak, ambitious, a courtier of popularity, given to low intrigue." (Madison to Jefferson, Oct. 17, 1788; Writings: Hunt, v, 270.)
[1051] Madison to Jefferson, Feb. 19, 1788; Writings: Hunt, v, 101.
[1052] Madison to Pendleton, Feb. 21, 1788; ib., 108.
[1053] King to Madison, Jan. 27, 1788; King, i, 316.