惯例:每天写日记

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发布于2020年8月21日-阅读4分钟

This evening New Jersey’s David Brearley dashed off a letter to his colleague William Paterson who had returned to New Jersey two weeks ago. “你不能下来帮助我们吗??他问. “We have many reasons for desiring this…We actually stand in need of your abilities.” Brearley had hoped the Convention would adjourn by the first of September, but “at present I have no prospect of our getting through before the latter end of that month. 每篇文章都要重新讨论, with as much earnestness and obstinacy as before it was committed.”

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发布于2020年8月20日- 4分钟阅读

As the Convention devotes considerable time considering paragraph-by-paragraph and line-by-line the report of the Committee of Detail, 州议会大厦外的活动正在进行. 昨天, George Washington and his close friend and confidante Samuel Powel rode up to White Marsh. 这是自五月公约召开以来的第一次, 华盛顿的日报中有一丝庄严的情绪. “我们穿过了我以前的营地,他写道, “and contemplated on the dangers which threatened the American Army at that place.”

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发布于2020年8月19日-阅读4分钟

The bell in the tower of the Pennsylvania State House cracked on its first test ring in 1752. 艾萨克·诺里斯, 宾夕法尼亚州议会议长, had ordered a bell for the bell tower from the Whitechapel Foundry in London in 1751. 当它破裂的时候, 两位当地工匠, 约翰·帕斯和约翰·斯托, 用原钟的金属铸了两次新钟. For the bell’s inscription Norris chose a verse from the Old Testament Book of Leviticus: “Proclaim 自由 throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof,” an instruction to the ancient Israelites to return property and free slaves every fifty years.

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发布于2020年8月18日-阅读4分钟

The Convention is nearly finished considering the list of legislative powers proposed by the Committee of Detail. 最后三个是召集军队的权力, 建造和装备舰队, 并“召集民兵来执行联邦的法律, 执行条约, 镇压叛乱，击退侵略.”

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发布于2020年8月17日-阅读4分钟

周三, several delegates complained of the tediousness of the work in which they are engaged while their letters home report they are likely to remain in Philadelphia for another month. 脾气和耐心都很短暂, undoubtedly aggravated by the heat wave and high humidity that saps everyone’s energy and makes even short walks almost unbearable. To everyone’s relief, the temperature dropped yesterday as cooling breezes flowed through the city. 

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发布于2020年8月16日-阅读4分钟

The rule of secrecy governing the Convention’s proceedings has not inhibited newspapers from speculating or putting their “spin” on rumors. 昨天, 宾夕法尼亚公报 published the disturbing but inaccurate report that the Convention is considering a monarchy. 宾夕法尼亚先驱报和综合广告报 reported that “the debates of the federal convention continued until five o’clock on Monday evening; when, 据说, a decision took place upon the most important question that has been agitated since the meeting of this assembly.” Of course, the paper did not identify this “most important question.“它肯定不知道这些信息.

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发布于2020年8月15日-阅读4分钟

A circular letter is handing about the country, recommending a kingly government for these States. The writer proposes to send to England for the bishop of Osnaburgh, 大不列颠国王的次子, 让他加冕为这片大陆的国王. 我们从经验中发现, 说,他, 我们没有足够的智慧来管理自己, 我们所有关于共和主义的宣言和游行, 自由, 财产和人权, 都是废话吗, and that it is high time for us to tread back the wayward path we have walked in these twelve years.

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发布于2020年8月14日-阅读4分钟

“Mr. Martin I saw at Convention,” Elbridge Gerry wrote in a letter today to his wife, Anne. “Martin rode from Trenton in the forenoon and had nearly fainted when he dismounted, 因为太热了. 这个城市现在和已经热了好几天了.” The few Philadelphians who have a second home or property in the countryside, 比如罗伯特·莫里斯和安德鲁·威廉, 可以去那里避暑吗, 但大多数人只是忍着, 尽最大努力对付苍蝇, 蚊子, 尘土飞扬的道路, 以及疾病的周期性爆发.

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发布于2020年8月13日-阅读4分钟

Yesterday George Washington dined with his friend William Hamilton at his large home in Bush Hill in the city of Philadelphia. 汉密尔顿是安德鲁·汉密尔顿的孙子, from whom he inherited 300 acres of land in the countryside near the bend in the Schuylkill River. It was Andrew Hamilton who defended John Peter Zenger from charges of criminal libel back in 1735. William Hamilton has spent the last twenty years building an imposing mansion surrounded by a picturesque landscape in the style of grand English gardens, 还有大量的植物收藏. 他称之为“林地”.

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发布于2020年12月8日-阅读4分钟

代表们正在享受他们惯常的星期天休息, many using the time to write letters to friends and family back home. Still under the rule of secrecy, there is little they can report. Richard Spaight wrote to his friend Richard Iredell that the Convention has “agreed on the outlines of a plan of government,但什么也说不出来了. James Madison simply told his inquiring father which States are and are not in attendance and sent him a few newspapers, “not because they are interesting but because they may apply the want of intelligence that might be more so.”

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