[549]. Four members are not recorded, and “there is a pretty well authenticated tradition that a certain prominent federalist of Concord gave a dinner party on the last day of the session at which several members reckoned as opposed to ratification were present and discussing the dinner when the final vote was taken.” Ibid., p. 43, note.
[550]. Harding, The Federal Constitution in Massachusetts, p. 67.
[551]. Harding, op. cit., p. 99.
[552]. Harding, op. cit., p. 101.
[553]. Documentary History of the Constitution, Vol. II, pp. 86–87; Connecticut Courant, October 22, 1787.
[554]. Bancroft, op. cit., Vol. II, p. 257.
[555]. Debates and Proceedings of the New York State Convention (1905 ed.), p. 3.
[556]. Bancroft, op. cit., Vol. II, p. 340.
[557]. Ibid., p. 340; and see below, p. 244.
[558]. State Papers: Miscellaneous, Vol. I, p. 7. For valuable side-lights on the opposition to the Constitution, see E. P. Smith’s essay, “The Movement towards a Second Constitutional Convention,” in Jameson, Essays in the Constitutional History of the United States, pp. 46 ff.