Nor manlier eloquence the bosom fired,
When genius thunder'd from the Athenian tongue."
Trumbull.****
On Monday, the 5th of September, fifty-four delegates, from twelve colonies, assembled in Carpenters' Hall. (v) It was a congregation of men, viewed in every important aspect,
* A drawing of the Raleigh Tavern, and also of the Apollo Room, in whieh the Assembly met, will be found in another part of this work.
** Connecticut elected its delegates on the 3d of June; Massachusetts on the 17th; Maryland on the 22d; New Hampshire on the 21st of July; Pennsylvania on the 22d; New Jersey on the 23d; New York on the 25th; Delaware on the 1st of August; Virginia on the same day; South Carolina on the 2d; Rhode Island on the 10th; and North Carolina on the 25th.
*** See pages 510, 511, vol. i.
**** The author of M'Fingal. These lines are from his Elegy on the Times, published while this first Congress was in session.
* (v) The following are the names of the members who composed the first Continental Congress:
New Hampshire.—John Sullivan, Nathaniel Folsom.
Massachusetts.—Thomas Cushing, Samuel Adams, John Adams,
Robert Treat Paine.
Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.—Stephen Hopkins,
Samuel Ward.
Connecticut.—Eliphalet Dyer, Roger Sherman, Silas Deane..
New York.—James Duane, John Jay, Isaac Low, John Alsop,
William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Henry Wisner.
New Jersey.—James Kinsey, Stephen Crane, William
Livingston, Richard Smith, John De Hart.
Pennsylvania.—Joseph Galloway, John Morton, Charles
Humphreys, Thomas Mifflin, Samuel Rhodes, Edward Biddle,
George Ross, John Dickenson.
Delaware.—Cæsar Rodney, Thomas M'Ivean, George Read.
Maryland.—Robert Goldsborough, Samuel Chase, Thomas
Johnson, Matthew Tilghman, William Pann.
Virginia.—Peyton Randolph, Richard Henry Lee, George
Washington, Patrick Henry, Richard Bland, Benjamin Harrison,
Edmund Pendleton.
North Carolina.—William Hooper, Joseph Hughes, Richard
Caswell.
South Carolina.—Henry Middleton, John Rutledge, Thomas
Lynch, Christopher Gadsden, Edward Rutledge.