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The Daily Dispatch: January 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 10 (search)
The British Treasury has greeted £5,000 to Captain Sir F. L. and the officers and crew of the Arctic yacht Fox, as a reward for their recent services in ascertaining the late of the late Sir John and his companions. A grant of £2,000 has also been agreed to for a national monument to Franklin.
The Daily Dispatch: January 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], The National Fast. (search)
The National Fast. It is probably known that the Convention which formed the Constitution, and of which George Washington was President, was in session four months without any prospect of an agreement on certain conflicting interests.--The fifty-five members of that august body were despairing of harmonious action, and the Convention came near dissolving. At this interesting and solemn crisis, Dr. Franklin rose, and, addressing himself to the President, among other things, said: "Sir, how has it happened, that while groping so long in the dark,--divided in our opinions, and now ready to separate without accomplishing the great objects of our meeting,--that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of Lights to illuminate our understandings? In the beginning of the contest with Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayer in this room for divine protection. Our prayers, sir, were heard, and hey were graciously answered. --All of us