The army will salute him monarch."* * "Connecticut's Ratification of the Federal Constitution," by B.
C.Steiner, in "Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society," April 1915 pp.

88-89.
But it is hard to take seriously a delegate who asked permission "to make a short apostrophe to liberty," and then delivered himself of this bathos: "O liberty!--thou greatest good--thou fairest property--with thee I wish to live--with thee I wish to die!--Pardon me if I drop a tear on the peril to which she is exposed; I cannot, sir, see this brightest of jewels tarnished! a jewel worth ten thousand worlds! and shall we part with it so soon?
O no!"* * Elliot's "Debates on the Federal Constitution," vol.III.

p.
144.
There might be some reason in objecting to the excessive power vested in Congress; but what is one to think of the fear that imagined the greatest point of danger to lie in the ten miles square which later became the District of Columbia, because the Government might erect a fortified stronghold which would be invincible?
Again, in the light of subsequent events it is laughable to find many protesting that, although each house was required to keep a journal of proceedings, it was only required "FROM TIME TO TIME to publish the same, excepting such parts as may in their judgment require secrecy." All sorts of personal charges were made against those who were responsible for the framing of the Constitution.

Hopkinson wrote to Jefferson in April, 1788: "You will be surprised when I tell you that our public News Papers have announced General Washington to be a Fool influenced & lead by that Knave Dr.Franklin, who is a public Defaulter for Millions of Dollars, that Mr.Morris has defrauded the Public out of as many Millions as you please & that they are to cover their frauds by this new Government."* * "Documentary History of the Constitution," vol.IV, p.

563.
All things considered, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that such critics and detractors were trying to find excuses for their opposition.
The majorities in the various conventions can hardly be said really to represent the people of their States, for only a small percentage of the people had voted in electing them; they were representative rather of the propertied upper class.