vention
voted Aye, except Connecticut. Connecticut was divided. Ellsworth
voted Aye, and Sherman, No.

Mr. Sherman lived, not only to sign a Constitution of limited
powers, but himself to support the Tenth Article of Amendment
thereto, which is as follows:

"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution,
nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States
respectively, or to the people." The words "or to the people"
were moved by Mr. Sherman after the original article was reported.
So he saw clearly in the beginning, what no other member saw,
the two great American principles, first that the National
Government should be a Government of limited and delegated
powers, and next, that there is a domain of legislation which
the people have not delegated either to the National Government
or to the States, and upon which no legislative power may
rightfully enter.

I surely am not mistaken in thinking that even without the
other services of a life devoted to the public, these four
contributions to the Constitutional history of the country
entitle Mr. Sherman to an honorable place in the grateful
memory of his countrymen, and vindicate the tributes which
I have cited from his illustrious contemporaries.

My grandmother, the daughter of Benjamin Prescott of Salem,
was a woman of great intelligence and a great beauty in her
time. She was once taken out to dinner by General Washington
when he was President. Madam Hancock, whose husband had been
President of the Continental Congress and Governor of Massachusetts,
complained to General Washington's Secretary, Mr. Lear, that
that honor belonged to her. The Secretary told General Washington,
the next day, what she said. The General answered that it
was his privilege to give his arm to the handsomest woman
in the room. Whether the reply was communicated to Mrs. Hancock,
or whether she was comforted by it, does not appear. General
Washington had been a guest at my grandfather's house in my
mother's childhood, and she had sat on his knee. She was
then six years old. But she always remembered the occasion
very vividly.

My grandfather was a friend of Lafayette, who mentions him
in one of his letters, the original of which is in my possession.
One of my mother's brothers, Lt. Colonel Isaac Sherman, led
the advance at Princeton, and was himself intimate with Washington
and Lafayette. He was a very brave officer and commanded
a Connecticut