[1189] Madison to Washington, June 4, 1788; Writings: Hunt, v, footnote to 123-24.
[1190] Grigsby, i, footnote to 46.
[1191] Grigsby, i, 101-02. Scenes of a similar character occurred several times in both Senate and House between 1900 and 1911, when one of our elder statesmen, who plainly was nearing the end of life, rose to speak. More than one notable contest, during that decade, was decided by the sympathetic votes of aged friends who answered the call of long years of affection.
[1192] Elliott, iii, 35-41.
[1193] See infra, chap, III; also Grigsby, i, 105-06.
[1194] Ib., 106-09.
[1195] Elliott, iii, 41-43.
[1196] Elliott, iii, 44. The word "revolution" is printed "resolution" in Elliott's Debates. This is a good example of the inaccuracy of Elliott's reprint of Robertson's stenographic report. In Robertson's Debates, published in 1805, the word is correctly printed "revolution." I have cited Elliott only because it is accessible. Even Robertson's report is admittedly meager and unsatisfactory; all the more, therefore, is it to be regretted that Elliott's reprint should be so inaccurate.
[1197] At this point the reporter, unable to follow Henry's speech, notes that he "strongly and pathetically expatiated on the probability of the President's enslaving America and the horrid consequences that must result." (Elliott, iii, 60.)
[1198] Henry had not heard of the Constitutionalists' bargain with Hancock in Massachusetts.