[1250] Grigsby, i, 183-85.
[1251] Elliott, iii, 236.
[1252] Ib., 236-47.
[1253] Ib., 247-62.
[1254] Ib., 254.
[1255] This caustic reference was to the members of the Convention who had been Tories. (Grigsby, i, 193; Elliott, iii, 269; also Rowland, ii, 240.) As we have seen most of the Tories and Revolutionary soldiers were united for the Constitution. These former enemies were brought together by a common desire for a strong National Government.
[1256] Elliott, iii, 262-72.
[1257] Ib., 272-73.
[1258] Grigsby, i, 194-205. William Grayson was one of the strongest men in Virginia. He became Virginia's first Senator under the Constitution. (See infra, vol. II, chap. II.) He filled and satisfied the public eye of his day as a soldier, scholar, and statesman. And yet he has dropped out of history almost completely. He is one of those rare personalities whom the whims of time and events have so obscured that they are to be seen but dimly through the mists. His character and mind can be measured but vaguely by fragments buried in neglected pages. William Grayson's talents, work, and vanished fame remind one of the fine ability, and all but forgotten career of Sir James Mackintosh.
[1259] Elliott, iii, 279.