[28]. A few years ago a negro attendant at the Treasury sold a cart-load or more of these records to a junk dealer. He was imprisoned for the offence, but this is a small consolation for scholars. The present writer was able to use some of the records only after a vacuum cleaner had been brought in to excavate the ruins.
[29]. See below, p. 50.
[30]. See Curtis, The Constitutional History of the United States, Book I, Chaps. II-VII; Fiske, Critical Period of American History; McMaster, History of the People of the United States, Vol. I; Channing, History of the United States, Vol. III.
[31]. See below, Chaps. IV and IX.
[32]. Working-men in the cities were not altogether indifferent spectators. See Becker, Political Parties in New York. They would have doubtless voted with the major interests of the cities in favor of the Constitution as against the agrarians had they been enfranchised. In fact, this is what happened in New York. See below, Chap. IX.
[33]. “If the authority be in their hands by the rule of suffrage,” struck out in the Ms. See also the important note to this speech in Farrand, Records, Vol. II, p. 204, note 17.
[34]. Farrand, Records, Vol. II, p. 203.
[35]. December 5, 1791. State Papers: Finance, Vol. I, p. 126.
[36]. Roosevelt, Gouverneur Morris, pp. 14 ff.
[37]. Ambler, Sectionalism in Virginia, p. 44.