[1094] Widgery to Thatcher, Feb. 8, 1788; Hist. Mag. (2d Series), vi, 270.
[1095] Ib.
[1096] Elliott, ii, 218.
[1097] Widgery to Thatcher, Feb. 8, 1788; Hist. Mag. (2d Series), vi, 270-71.
[1098] King to Madison, Feb. 6, 1788; King, i, 320.
[1099] Gerry, in Ford: P. on C., 1-23.
[1100] Ib., 23. When a bundle of copies of Gerry's pamphlet was received by the New York Anti-Constitutionalists in Albany County, they decided that it was "in a style too sublime and florid for the common people in this part of the country." (Ib., 1.)
[1101] During the debates the Boston Gazette published the following charge that bribery was being employed to get votes for the Constitution:—
BRIBERY AND CORRUPTION!!!
"The most diabolical plan is on foot to corrupt the members of the Convention, who oppose the adoption of the new Constitution. Large sums of money have been brought from a neighboring state for that purpose, contributed by the wealthy. If so, is it not probable there may be collections for the same accursed purpose nearer home? Centinel." (Elliott, ii, 51.)