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" ... indebted for this admirable government ? I will name them; their names ought to be engraven on brass and live forever. They were Chief Justice Ellsworth and Roger Sherman of Connecticut, and Judge Patterson of New Jersey. The other states, further... "
The Connecticut Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly - Page 533
edited by - 1899
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The New Englander, Volume 24

1865 - 836 pages
...The other States farther south were blind — they did not see the future. But to the coolness nnd sagacity of these three men, aided by a few others...not so prominent, we owe the present Constitution." 1865.] Old Connecticut vs. the Atlantis Monthly. 359 Mr. 'Webster, in his great argument entitled "...
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New Englander and Yale Review, Volume 24

Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1865 - 836 pages
...Patterson, of New Jersey. The other States farther south were blind—they did not see the future. But to the coolness and sagacity of these three men, aided by a few others nut so prominent, we owe the present Constitution." Mr. Webster, in his great argument entitled " The...
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Speech for Connecticut: Being an Historical Estimate of the State, Delivered ...

Horace Bushnell - 1851 - 64 pages
...other states farther South j ' were blind — they did not see the future. But to the coolness (*- f* and sagacity of these three men, aided by a few others,...not so prominent, we owe the present Constitution." Such is the tribute paid to Connecticut by one of the greatest of American statesmen. To have claimed...
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The History of Connecticut: From the First Settlement of the ..., Volume 2

Gideon Hiram Hollister - 1855 - 774 pages
...Patterson, of New Jersey. The other states farther south were 'blind ; they did not see the future. But to the coolness and sagacity of these three men, aided...not so prominent, we owe the present Constitution."* However we are to decide the question of state sovereignty growing out of the construction of the Constitution,...
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The History of Connecticut: From the First Settlement of the ..., Volume 2

Gideon Hiram Hollister - 1857 - 788 pages
...Patterson, of New Jersey. The other states farther south were blind ; they did not see the future. But to the coolness and sagacity of these three men, aided...not so prominent, we owe the present Constitution."* However we are io decide the question of state sovereignty growing out of the .construction of the...
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The History of Connecticut: From the First Settlement of the Colony ...

Gideon Hiram Hollister - 1858 - 808 pages
...Patterson, of New Jersey. The other states farther south were blind ; they did not see the future. But to the coolness and sagacity of these three men, aided...not so prominent, we owe the present Constitution."* However we are to decide the question of state sovereignty growing out of the construction of the Constitution,...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 63

1864 - 588 pages
...PATTRRSON, of New-Jersey. The other States further south were blind ; they did not see the future. But to the coolness and sagacity of these three men, aided...not so prominent, we owe the present Constitution.' Moreover, the State of Connecticut understood the nature of the Constitution, and who were the contracting...
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Work and Play: Or Literary Varities

Horace Bushnell - 1864 - 472 pages
...Patterson of New Jersey. The other states farther South were blind—they did not see the future. But to the coolness and sagacity of these three men, aided...not so prominent, we owe the present Constitution." Such is the tribute paid to Connecticut by this very distinguished statesman of South Carolina. To...
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Work and Play: Or Literary Varities

Horace Bushnell - 1864 - 476 pages
...Patterson of New Jersey. The other states farther South were blind—they did not see the future. But to the coolness and sagacity of these three men, aided by a few others, Hot so prominent, we owe the present Constitution." Such is the tribute paid to Connecticut by this...
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New-England Historical and Genealogical Register and Antiquarian Journal

Joseph Barlow Felt - 1870 - 484 pages
...Patterson of New Jersey. The other states, further south, were blind; they did not see the future. But to the coolness and sagacity of these three men, aided...not so prominent, we owe the present constitution." There had been in Connecticut a strong opposition to the formation and adoption of the proposed constitution,...
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