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From the Royal Americas Magazine.
Tie Add^h of AMERICAN GENIUS to
ti theP&OP LEin /^American W chid
’’ Roufs up your powers and exalt ycur tsied.”
AMERICA bleffams as tbs srxpanding rose,
and rises like the lowering cedar ; every
isornitrg fun views her cucreafed fame, and
each new day extends her domain and acds
□ew glories to her crown. — Here th? (hetms
of wealth, the beams of fderce,' the (hrs of
wildom, the light of virtue, ard the (no of
.liberty, wiil all unite their r ys, and form the
CnMtme circle of homan fplcndor and fe ieny —
American? ! Look caftwa-d, and westward,
Northward rod southward—the ft?rer of estate,
atjd the blcfltogs of the univeife, arc ready-to
Sour into your h'ppy land——The friendly
ocean fljwt found you, and yrur cocntlcfs pens
Src open to the four winds cf Heaven —I he
tnfpiriog voice cf Liberty echoes Gom pro
vince to province, and l er animating spirit kio
■dies from the city to the country, and flifhes
tike lightning through the Jiftant regions cf
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THE Company of Subscribers for a
LIBRA RE, at their last Meet
ings encouraged by the liberal Subfcripti
ans which have been made, to projecute
their Design of purcbafing a fjollefticn
if ufeful and re’igious Books, for the
Benefit of tbemfelves and Families, and
the premotion of Virtue and itfeful Know
ledge, proceeded to form tbemfelves into a
Society for that Purpose, and to enable
them the better to tranfaft she Business
of the Company, made choice of a M.od'e
rater, Committee, Librarian, Treasurer,
&c.—aljo adopted a Humber of Rules
to direst and govern their future Pro
ceedings, fubjeft, never thelefs, to fueb
Emendations and Improvements, as said
Society hereafter (ball judge more conftf
tentwitb the End of its Infiitution. As
the Utility of Public Libraries cotfifling
of wAl^hoJen Books under proper Re
gulations, and their Jmiling Afoefl on
the Literals of Society, Virtue and Re
ligion, are too manifeft to be denied, it is
thought and the Company really flatter
tbem/elves, that all the good People of
the North add South Societies wilt lend
their Influence to promote and hpp for
ward Jucb a laudable Design. A Meet
ing of the Company afore/aid is agreed to
be held at the Grammar School H^ufe on
Thursday next, Six of the Clock in the
Evening. 7he Members are de fired to
.punftually and universally observe the
Time : any others disposed to become in
tereHed in said Library are also invited
to attend said Meeting and enter their
Names according to the Rwes a,id Terms
of Admificn.
Hartford, March i, i 774.
From TUESDAY, February 22, to T U E S D A Y, March i, 1774
CONNECTICUT.
To the Printer 0, /^Connecticut Gazette.
Sir,
"X™HE refection of the C?rcral Assembly,
A to purfoe their claim to the hoes weft
*of New York province, included io ouri barter,
occasions much fpecuarion : the importance of
the subj a, most naturally occafioos it ; m'we
m*y exped, in such a cause, the parties affeded
and interested in the evert, will be affidpous to
leave nothing unattempted, that will influence,
either one way or the other, -Though on
fra thought a difintcefted perfoo wcold con
elude it impeffib e that ridicule should be made
ule of, in a cause depending 00 idual records,
and their legal confiruaioo ; yet some fampies
cf it have been exhibited, by those who have
improved on Lord Shaf foury's maxim, and
mean to m^ke ridicule the test of poverty, as
well as of truth Farion will undoubtedly
be attempted ; and by hiding up to. view, the
certainty of expenee, and the uncertainty of
the iffuc, aim at barring the proctedure, by
r^fis! a popular cry agai fl the meafuie.
The f uihern lire of Cmneaicu; claim, in
terferes with the proprietaries of Fctnlyvaoia,
whofc agent and privy cpimfAor, is too well ac
quiintcu with this colony,, the interest. views,
and tempers of the different parties in it, to
omit any thing, on so trying an occ-fioo The
charter of Connecticut from its fi<h Settlement,
has been peculiar for cau ion, moderation and
fteadioefs, in their pubic affairs - nor can
hi lory sh w an iofhr.ee of a government,equally
popular, that have exceeded them herein ; and
it is certainly, much to be wifh'd, that in all
ther future concerns, and efeecially in the im
portant one new entered on, they may flill tup
port their title to the fame; avoiding 00 the
one band,the being plung'd into rsfh expense,
and dangerous measurer, by designing & intcreft
cd adventurers ; and 00 the other, the being
either ridiculed, or bullied out of their just right
and inheritance procured for them, at no less
expence, thin that of the case, comfort,fortune,
and even lives of their wor by predeceffrs.
Any thing that can befaid, within the compels
cf a news.paper, will be but trifling, with a
r<ufe of this magnitude / and though from the
ybur vast Continent. The time is coming,
when the knee of empires and fp'eadid king
doms will bow to your greatness and fuppli
ca e favour of your libera ard pcerlcfi Majesty
Go on my Sons, io the ways of virtue
and religion, and you sh di be the glory and the
afloniihment of the whole earth. The
name of an / merican will.carry honour and
maj fly in the found—and meo will eßeem it a
blcffiog to wear the venerable and commanding
ftile.'
Harvard with her Offer Seminaries, will
bloom with bright laurels of literature, and
their fhiniog Sons write Something ze^ on each
hour as it flies — and brighten every page of re
volving time w th thePATRiQT's glorious deeds !
The wings of Fame will bear their immortal
names round the globe —kindle the Ipirit of
freedom from pole to pole, and rouse up a world
of flives!
Hark ! ye Immortals ! who inhabit other
worlds, stand flill, and wih new kindled rap
tore, hear the glory of America
6 Fame claps her wings & founds it to the fkies.'
was not agitated The c'cu^ftaoces of these
lands are intirely a tercel ficce the late war and
our towns now in confequ:rcc of peace, bca th,
and a most rapid enframe full of inhabitants, it
won d be as furprizing. if we neglected furring
cur atten ion to cur weft ro claims at this rime,
as rash, and absurd, to have attempted any Set
tlement there, ata ^ uch earlier period.
In couf quence bf the proprietaries of Penn
sylvania, making objections to the Coonca'cot
claim and to remote every doubt on the fuj&,
the General Afrmbly in May 1770 appointed
a committee, to examine into < : nd prepare a
fu and just ftaie of -he case and trarfmit the
fine to the m<ft able council in Great Britain,
for their opinion thereon :- No ore difpu r cs
the just cfs es he fadh they flared tie -n
---fwer from the council was received force time
after the rifiog of 'he General 'flemb y io M;y
left, and having been pub.;fhed, with a Hate es
the case is known to every cue The Ge
neral <ffcmteiy in October last, took the mat
ter up where (I am credibly informed) after a
calm, impartial examination and 00 hear ng
all the ingenious arguments, effect on both
tides. for two days fucec ffively. the house voted
to afcrt their right to the wefiern lands encu
ded io the charter of this co'on% ; and to pur
foe proper meafares to vindicate the fare
This p ff:d by a great majority Several mea
fores and regulations were proposed refpe&ing
the lands, and the inhabitants co these lands,
which after difeuffion were trj &ed, or laid over
to the adjournment io J^uary excepting
the appointing a committee to assist his honor
Governor Trumbull, io preparing nece ff#ry ex
hibits, to be transmitted to the court of Great-
Britain &c &c and directing part of said com^
mittee to repair to Philadelphia. &c. Pursuant
to this, three of them waited on Mr Peno,
at Ph adelphia ; their co fer nee, which was
entirely in writing is new in the press and will
soon be laid before the public An anony
mous pamph et has been pu^ifhed, Goce thofc
gentlemen left Philadelphia, entitled. " An
examination of the Conncatcut claim." &c. at
tributed-to Dr Smith of Philadelphia ; and
doubtless he,ay be the editor, but the fab.
Ounce of it was seen in a gentleman's handa,
who tefided in Connecticut, the left fammcr.
closest attention to themenrr I cti fjV; <
vinccd of the ju Hee of the <0 t oy’s ,
it would be equally impenn eo* *s v i
any thing on a fu ! j-6l c « u cr ,hc r
one, so eotiicly equal to >h:s as wr < •« e -
other which he undertakes. My g sign ii G >
this page es the G zette is ot’y 'o i. • >ni «.
ry one. of the prefect fituarion of the contrast
fy, to free it by that means fr< m ary o- । pre
fen'ations on either haod, and ic (k he
good peop e of this co ory. »o cxtrdfe (iri?
wonted p udence and good sense, in htaring the
matter, before they artier it, io fixing the r
judgment eithei for ot agaioft.
It is well known, the people in this colony
have alway fuppofetJ their bounds to be as tx
prels’d in their patent and <b-r'er,we(l cn the
fbuth sea, the expediency of ifTir'ing fueb th eir
c'aim, and taking up the lands whi e the towts
already laid out were fat Item I cirp full cf in
habitar,ts -nd the western and nothero parts of
North America, in inch a (L'c of war, that thn
prefect prff.(Eunsof the c ’ony were in con
tinual dungs r could bcoc qu ftioo and o( course