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

by Max Farrand

XCII. Extract From The Pennsylvania Journal.^[1]

[August 22, 1787.]

We are informed, that many letters have been written to the members of the foederal convention from different quarters, respecting the reports idly circulating, that it is intended to establish a monarchical government, to send for the bishop of Osnaburgh, &c., &c.—to which it has been uniformly answered, tho’ we cannot, affirmatively, tell you what we are doing, we can, negatively, tell you what we are not doing—we never once thought of a king.^[2]

1. Jameson, Studies in the History of the Federal Convention, in the Annual Report of the American Historical Association for 1902, p. 99.
2. Compare phraseology with that at the close of LXXXIX above, and see CVII below.