"My son Patrick has been gone to Philadelphia near seven weeks. The affairs of Congress are kept with great secrecy, nobody being allowed to be present. I assure you we have our lowland troubles and fears with respect to Great Britain. Perhaps our good God may bring good to us out of these many evils which threaten us, not only from the mountains but from the seas."[135] FOOTNOTES: [102] _Washington's Writings_, ii. 503. [103] _Works of John Adams_, ii. 357. [104] Meade, _Old Churches and Families of Va._ i. 220, 221. [105] _Works of John Adams_, ii. 361. [106] _Works of John Adams_, ii. 357-364. [107] _Works of John Adams_, ii. 365. [108] _Am. Quarterly Review_, i. 30, whence it is quoted in _Works of John Adams_, iii. 29, 30, note. As regards the value of this testimony of Charles Thomson, we should note that it is something alleged to have been said by him at the age of ninety, in a conversation with a friend, and by the latter reported to the author of the article above cited in the _Am. Quart. Rev._ [109] _Works of John Adams_, ii. 365. [110] It seems to me that the second paragraph on page 366 of volume ii. of the _Works of John Adams_ must be taken as his memorandum of his own speech; and that what follows on that page, as well as on page 367, and the first half of page 368, is erroneously understood by the editor as belonging to the first day's debate. It must have been an outline of the second day's debate. This is proved partly by the fact that it mentions Lee as taking part in the debate; but according to the journal, Lee did not appear in Congress until the second day. 4 _Am. Arch._ i. 898. [111] _Works of John Adams_, ii. 366-368. [112] 4 _Am. Arch._ i. 898, 899. [113] 4 _Am. Arch._ i. 899. [114] _Conn. Hist. Soc. Coll._ ii. 181. [115] The text of Galloway's plan is given in 4 _Am. Arch._ i. 905, 906. [116] _Works of John Adams_, ii. 390. [117] _Works of John Adams_, ii. 385. [118] Hansard, _Parl. Hist._ xviii. 155, 156 note, 157. [119] 4 _Am. Arch._ i. 906, 907, 927. [120] Wirt, 109. [121] _Works of John Adams_, x. 79; ii. 396, note; Lee's _Life of R. H. Lee_, i. 116-118, 270-272. [122] _Political Writings_, ii. 19-29. [123] Thus John Adams, on 11th October, writes: "Spent the evening with Mr. Henry at his lodgings consulting about a petition to the king." _Works_, ii. 396. [124] 4 _Am. Arch._ i. 904. [125] Judge John Tyler, in Wirt, 109, note. [126] For another form of this tradition, see Curtis's _Life of Webster_, i. 588. [127] Pages 105-113. [128] Wirt, 105, 106. [129] The exact rules under debate during those first two days are given in 4 _Am. Arch._ i. 898, 899. [130] Kennedy, _Mem. of Wirt_, i. 364. [131] _Works of John Adams_, x. 78. [132] _Ibid._ x. 277. [133] As a matter of fact, the letter from Hawley began with these words, instead of "concluding" with them. [134] _Works of John Adams_, x. 277, 278.