Note 1004 — Chapter IX

Ib., 3-4; and see ib., 75. An excuse for these mob methods was that the Legislature previously had resolved to adjourn sine die on that very day. This would put off action until the next session. The Anti-Constitutionalists urged—with entire truthfulness—that even this delay would give the people too little time to inform themselves upon the "New Plan" of government, as it was called, which the Convention was to pass upon in the people's name. "Not one in twenty know anything about it." (Mr. Whitehall in debate in the Legislature; ib., 32.)