 | James Madison, Henry Dilworth Gilpin - 1840 - 708 sider
...Would this be the case if the proposed election should be left to the people at large ? He conceived it would be as unnatural to refer the choice of a...character for Chief Magistrate to the people, as it would, to refer a trial of colors to a blind man. The extent of the country renders it impossible, that the... | |
 | James Williams (American diplomat.) - 1863 - 448 sider
...at a later period the truth of Mr. Pinckney's prophetic warning.] Col. Mason, of Virginia, conceived that it would be as unnatural to refer the choice...character for chief magistrate to the people as it would to refer a trial of colours to a blind man. The extent of the country renders it impossible that the... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot - 1863 - 680 sider
...Would this be the case if the proposed election should be left to the people at large ? He conceived it would be as unnatural to refer the choice of a...character for chief magistrate to the people, as it would to refer a trial of colors to a blind man. The extent of the country renders it impossible that the... | |
 | William Cabell Rives - 1866 - 716 sider
...republican sentiments, — in opposing the proposition used this remarkable language : — " He conceived it would be as unnatural to refer the choice of a...character for chief magistrate to the people, as it would to refer a trial of colors to a blind man. The extent of the country renders it impossible that the... | |
 | Charles Ingersoll - 1875 - 298 sider
...the largest " State will have the best chance for the appoint" ment." " Mr. Mason said, he conceived it would " be as unnatural to refer the choice of...character for Chief Magistrate to the people, as "it would to refer a trial of colors to a blind man. " The extent of the country renders it impossible " that... | |
 | 1878 - 428 sider
...were always worse than those made by the people at large. Mr. George Mason, of Virginia, conceived it would be as unnatural to refer the choice of a proper person for a Chief Magistrate to the people as it would to refer a trial of colors to a blind man.... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford - 1878 - 432 sider
...were always worse than those made by the people at large. Mr. George Mason, of Virginia, conceived it would be as unnatural to refer the choice of a proper person for a Chief Magistrate to the people as it would to refer a trial of colors to a blind man.... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - 1886 - 580 sider
...apparently one of the most democratic members of the Convention, took occasion to say that " he considered it would be as unnatural to refer the choice of a...character for chief magistrate to the people as it would to refer a trial of colors to a blind man. The extent of the country renders it impossible that the... | |
 | Kate Mason Rowland - 1892 - 544 sider
...Would this be the case if the proposed election should be left to the people at large ? He conceived it would be as unnatural to refer the choice of a...character for Chief Magistrate to the people, as it would, to refer a trial of colors to a blind man. The extent of the country renders it impossible, that the... | |
 | Erastus Howard Scott - 1893 - 412 sider
...Would this be the case if the proposed election should be left to the people at large? He conceived it would be as unnatural to refer the choice of a...character for Chief Magistrate to the people, as it would, to refer a trial of colors to a blind man. The extent of the country renders it impossible, that the... | |
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He conceived it would be as unnatural to refer the choice of a proper character for Chief Magistrate to the people, as it would, to refer a trial of colors to a blind man. 
