From an early unfinished picture.

This shows the arrangement of the room and the sun behind Washington's chair.] [Sidenote: Franklin's prophecy.] 186.

Franklin's Prophecy .-- It was with a feeling of real relief that the delegates finally came to the end of their labors.

As they were putting their names to the Constitution, Franklin pointed to a rising sun that was painted on the wall behind the presiding officer's chair.
He said that painters often found it difficult to show the difference between a rising sun and a setting sun.

"I have often and often," said the old statesman, "looked at that behind the President, without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting; but now, at length, I have the happiness to know that it is a rising and not a setting sun." And so indeed it has proved to be.
[Sidenote: Strength of the Constitution.