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Ratification of the Constitution by the states: Delaware. Microform supplement
[3A] ([1978])
Tilton, James, 1745-1822
Timoleon, biographical history of Dionysius, 1788, pp. 358-410
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tolicited affiltanze againfit theis countrymen, had Cbconded, and could not be taken. Finally, the tCommiffioners ordered all thofe who wcre conviaed from overt aas of an intcntioa of joining the ene. my, to be difarmedL With the utmoll humility, and apparent gratitude fo (he lenity of their judges, tli haftened to obey twe: mLndate, brought in and dei- wered up their arms. The declaration of there de- iaqisents, fubfcribed by a Iong lift of thir names, was returred to the houfe of affTmbly, arnd recorded on their minutes, where it flands as a lafting monu- ment of dilgrace to the ftate, as will morc fully ap. - pear in the (equel. During thefe tranfadions In Delaware, the que. Rion of Independence was agitated in congrefs; and the refpedive legiflatures were inftruaing their dcMo- gates on that fubjeat. From the defcrp tion of the SuTex ekleon, in 17 P and the trantamons of the county afterwards, noy will doubt that their fe- prefnratives were tories or anti-revolutioniftL The repretentatives from Kent this year, were as deci- dedly whig or revolutionifl. The important que. flion, therefore, whether we (bould inftruA for or againft independcnce, was detcrmined by the -cprc- fentatives of New-Cafile. The people of this coun- ty, almoft univcrfAlly well dirpcfed, wcre therefore the Icts fufpicious; and DIONYSIUS had Co con- trived as to have a majority ot their reprefectatives, though men of fpecious & haraders. his f4(( friends, and tdrally under his dire&ion. Thus, by meCan of the Suffex tories, and his friends from New-C:(le, DIONYSIt'S procured inttrudions from the hou'e, to himfelf and collcagues, our de!cgatcs in congrefs, to oppop iOfeprfdWrcf. C '* 3 ) In congrefe, DIONYSJ fCi~tFully cbyed his irifauai:s. throughout che whole dchate trpn this important quethon; and Li colezue, knowin Low thefe infruians were ctaiined, and that they wer not the fcnfc of the virt, - part of the commerity -he reprefcated, .qre fCthfgly difrgarded th . without pow'-ic Eo corru:t cogrets, .- cD 1P OCamf=, cOUd ' ry btray hi fineT., and the eonfidential cdramerce btween him and t!%c pro- prim firends . Hience it wzia, tha (",Me -of the . us men at hat tkhe In cozrefs pra- noncd him better titted for th. - diftrid of St. .7mseis'* than the rt&on i'4Ae'ira. 'igally, although to avoid fingularity, he agreed t6 figu'the declaration, yet how V'eU he int*dd to fiulfiLthe (olemn .he had tbus fabfcribed, let every readier jt'*8 from what follows. I, S F.C
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