"Do you recollect the pensive and awful silence which
pervaded the House when we were called up, one after another,
to the table of the President of Congress [John Hancock] to
subscribe what was believed by many at that time to be our own
death warrants?"
pervaded the House when we were called up, one after another,
to the table of the President of Congress [John Hancock] to
subscribe what was believed by many at that time to be our own
death warrants?"