> Which,
> of course, is why Moore never got a chance to even address the
> delegates in
> the first place.
Did he actually want to? I somehow don't see that as a role he was hankering after.
He seemed to be in his element patrolling around the Boston area as a celebrity in his own right; on the podium at the convention, he would have been just another member of the parade of minor figures.
Jon Johanning // jjohanning at igc.org __________________________________ A gentleman haranguing on the perfection of our law, and that it was equally open to the poor and the rich, was answered by another, 'So is the London Tavern.' -- "Tom Paine's Jests..." (1794); also attr. to John Horne Tooke (1736-1812) by Hazlitt