which there was but one aſſembly: it was reported too, that the doctor had preſided in the convention when it was made, and there approved it. Mr. Turgor, reading over the conſtitutions, and admiring that of Penſylvania, was led to cenſure the reſt, which were ſo different from it.—I know of no other evidence, that the doctor ever gave his voice for a ſingle aſſembly, but the common anecdote which is known to every body. It is ſaid, that in 1776, in the convention of Penſylvania, of which the doctor was preſident, a project of a form of government by one aſſembly, was before them in debate: a motion was made to add another aſſembly under the name of a ſenate or council; this motion was argued by ſeveral members, ſome for the affirmative, and ſome for the negative; and before the queſtion was put the opinion of the preſident was requeſted: the preſident roſe, and ſaid, that "Two aſſemblies appeared to him, like a practice he had ſomewhere ſeen, of certain waggoners who, when about to deſcend a ſteep hill, with a heavy load, if they had four cattle, took off one pair from before, and chaining them to the hinder part of the waggon drove them up hill; while the pair before, and the weight of the load, over-balancing the ſtrength of thoſe behind, drew them ſlowly and moderately down the hill."
The preſident of Penſylvania might, upon ſuch an occaſion, have recollected one of Sir Iſaac Newton's laws of motion, viz. "that re-action muſt always be equal and contrary to action," or there can never be any reſt.—He might have alluded to thoſe angry aſſemblies in the Heavens, which ſo often overſpread the city of Philadelphia, fill the citizens with apprehenſion and terror, threatening to ſet the world on fire, merely be-
