For the Independent Journal Saturday, October 27, 1787 To the People of the State of New York: AFTER an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject speaks its own importance; comprehending in its consequences…
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Address to Cornwallis
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. October 30.—An American soldier, in the Maryland Gazette, thus addresses the unfortunate Cornwallis:— “My Lord:—A general who possesses that dignity of soul, which exalts the conqueror above the insolence of a triumph, and elevates the vanquished above meanness and…
“Leonidas” to Cornwallis
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. August 27.—A writer of South Carolina presents the following address to Lord Cornwallis:—”My lord,—As a generous enemy I mean to address you with candor. I possess not the acrimony of a satirist nor the disposition to encourage it. I…
Remarks of a Carolina Planter
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. August 24.—In the present unsettled state of things in America, when the British are in possession of a part of the southern States, and when men’s minds are distracted between a love of property, and that attention which should…
Rivington’s News – The Black Act – Connecticut – Massachusetts and New Hampshire
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. June 16.—Our correspondents beyond the lines, says Rivington, give as a most melancholy description of the wretchedness of the inhabitants of all parts of the country. The increase of the numbers who are for peace and the re-union, by…