Journal of William Maclay going online
http://constitution.org/ac/maclay/journal.htm

"[W]ith the Senate I am certainly disgusted. I came here expecting every 
man to act the part of a god; that the most delicate honor, the most 
exalted wisdom, the most refined generosity, was to govern every act and 
be seen in every deed. What must my feelings be on finding rough and 
rude manners, glaring folly, and the basest selfishness apparent in 
almost every public transaction!"

Those are the words of William Maclay, who drew a two-year term as 
senator from Pennsylvania during the First Congress, serving from 1789 
to 1791. There was no /Congressional Record/ in those days. Official 
records of proceedings were sparse and incomplete, and most reports of 
proceedings came from newspaper accounts or private journals such as the 
one Maclay kept. His journal is the only record we have of much of what 
happened in the Senate during the critical First Congress. It reveals a 
wealth of color and detail that gives one a sense of what it was like to 
be there and be part of the founding of a new constitutional republic.

Although the rendering is not yet complete, and completion is subject to 
funding being received from donors, enough has been put up for one to 
begin the adventure.