Excerpt from The History of Our Government and Its Perils, and the Fruit of the Great Conflict

We can clearly trace its gradual development from conception to reality; from the blossom to the rich, ripe fruit; from a germ to the wide-spreading, stately tree; from the embryo to a grand republic; amid agitation, difficulties, dangers, and wars of the most desperate and bloody character.

The First Congress.

The distance of the English throne from the American colonies rendered the administration of their affairs difficult, perplexing, and unsatisfactory. Her unjust methods of governing the colonies excited the most bitter and resentful spirit on the part of the colonists, which in turn produced the most aggressive and revengeful acts on the part of the British Ministry.

On the fifth day of September, 1774, in accordance with Colonial resolutions or enactments, there assembled at Philadelphia fifty delegates from the thirteen Colonies, composing the first Colonial Congress, to devise measures of resistance to the encroachments and despotism of the British ministry and throne. Peyton Randolph, of Virginia, was elected president.

Among the members of this Congress, Washington, Adams, Sherman, Jay, Livingston, Lee, Rutledge and Patrick Henry were conspicuous.

There first met in deliberative assembly the champions of liberty and constitutional law.

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