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This was the first library ever established in this country, and it now numbers more than sixty thousand volumes. Since that day libraries have multiplied rapidly. The following are some of the questions for the "JUNTO," and they show that it was really a thorough and valuable organization.
"We are not at all surprised," said Coleman to Colonel Spotswood; "we are familiar with Franklin; I mean, we members of the Junto, as no other persons are. He will fill ably any position you can give him." "That was my estimate of the man," answered Spotswood, who was Postmaster-General; "and so I appointed him my deputy here.
He pointed out to emulation the Whig junto who held so close together in the reign of Anne Sunderland, Godolphin, Somers, and Marlborough who believed "that no men could act with effect who did not act in concert; that no men could act in concert who did not act with confidence; and that no men could act with confidence who were not bound together by common opinions, common affections, and common interests."
When the gentleman to whom I have been compelled to allude shall have mingled his dust with that of his abused ancestors, when he shall have been consigned to oblivion, or, if he lives at all, shall live only in the treasonable annals of a certain junto, the name of Jefferson will be hailed with gratitude, his memory honored and cherished as the second founder of the liberties of the people, and the period of his administration will be looked back to as one of the happiest and brightest epochs of American history; an oasis in the midst of a sandy desert.
"Have you met with anything, in the author you last read, remarkable, or suitable to be communicated to the Junto? particularly in history, morality, poetry, physics, travels, mechanic arts, or other parts of knowledge." "Hath any citizen failed in business, and what have you heard of the cause?" "Have you lately heard of any citizen's thriving well, and by what means?"
It must not be forgotten, however, that Benjamin Franklin conceived and reduced the idea to practice. The following are some of the questions discussed by members of the Junto: "Is sound an entity or body? "How may the phenomenon of vapors be explained? "Is self-interest the rudder that steers mankind, the universal monarch to whom all are tributaries?
It was frequently called "junto" or "cabal," and during the days of conflict between the commons and the king it was regarded with great disfavour by the parliament of England.
At first, one or two pastors admitted him to their pulpits; but the opposition grew so intense, that all the churches were closed against him, and he was obliged to preach in the fields. Franklin denounced this treatment in his paper and by his voice, in the Junto and on the street.
David Kent shook the light touch of her hand from his arm and set his teeth hard upon a word hot from the furnace of righteous indignation. For a moment he fully believed she was in league with the junto; that she had been purposely holding him in talk while the very seconds were priceless. She saw the scornful wrath in his eyes and turned it aside with a swift denial.
A mad fellow who had been an intendant in Normandy, and several other politicians of the lowest form, were at different times taken into this famous Junto. With these worthy people his Grace of Ormond negotiated; and no care was omitted on his part to keep me out of the secret. The reason of which, as far as I am able to guess at, shall be explained to you by-and-by.
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