 | James Madison, Henry Dilworth Gilpin - Constitutional history - 1840 - 708 pages
...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.) - Presidents - 1863 - 448 pages
...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 - Constitutional history - 1863 - 680 pages
...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 - United States - 1866 - 716 pages
...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 - History - 1875 - 298 pages
...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... | |
 | Almanacs, American - 1878 - 428 pages
...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 - Almanacs - 1878 - 432 pages
...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 - Presidents - 1886 - 580 pages
...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 - Legislators - 1892 - 544 pages
...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 - Constitutional history - 1893 - 412 pages
...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. 
