The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787/Volume 3/Appendix A/XXXV

by Max Farrand

XXXV. Jeremiah Wadsworth to Rufus King.^[1]

Hartford, June 3, 1787.

Yours of the 24th ulto. came to hand after our delegates had set out. I am satisfied with the appointment—except Sherman, who, I am told, is disposed to patch up the old scheme of Government. This was not my opinion of him, when we chose him: he is as cunning as the Devil, and if you attack him, you ought to know him well; he is not easily managed, but if he suspects you are trying to take him in, you may as well catch an Eel by the tail.

1. C.R. King, Life and Correspondence of Rufus King, I, 221.