Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Benjamin Franklin” in chapter 5 of Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I.:
...Convention of delegates from a quorum of the States, called together rather to amend than to supersede the Articles of Confederation, was legally assembled at Philadelphia in 1787, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin , Alexander Hamilton,James Madison, Edmund Randolph, and Charles C. Pinckney, being among its most eminent members.
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were absent as Embassadors in Europe.
Samuel Ada...
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