.” A spontaneous desire for a continental council was every where manifested. Its proposition by the Massachusetts Assembly was warmly responded to. The people met in primary assemblies, appointed representatives, and on the 5th of September, 1774, forty-three delegates from twelve colonies assembled in convention, in Carpenter’s Hall, Philadelphia. Others soon came, and the first Continental Congress began its labors.
Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851
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. They understood the maxim of revolutionists, that “in union there is strength.”
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