The form of Freedom shall alone remain
•When thirteen states are molded into one
•Your rights are vanish’d and your honors gone;
•The form of Freedom shall alone remain,
•As Rome had Senators when she hugg’d the chain.
~ South Carolina State Gazette
           January 28, 1788
From “The Ordeal of the Constitution” by Robert Allen Rutland, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma; 1966; p. 29.

Footnote 18: Charleston South Carolina State Gazette, January 28, 1788, quoted in L. M. Miner, Our Rude Forefathers, 204.