AND OF THE LIBERTIES THEREOF-TO HIS EXCELLENCY, THE PRESIDENT, AND CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES Philip Foner’s introduction: Written by Paine in July, 1783, this memorial urged the national legislature to return to Philadelphia. Congress had left the city in June, after having been threatened by a mutiny of Pennsylvania troops who were discontented over […]
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Six Letters to Rhode-Island from the Providence Gazette, December 21, 28, 1782, January 4, 11, 18, February 1, 1783 To the PRINTER of the PROVIDENCE GAZETTE, SIR, Philadelphia, Nov. 27, 1782. Inclosed I send you a Philadelphia paper of this day’s date, and desire you to insert the piece signed “A Friend to Rhode-Island and
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PUBLIC GOOD from the original pamphlet at the University of Pittsburgh digital collection. PREFACE THE following pages are on a subject hitherto little understood but highly interesting to the United States. They contain an investigation of the claims of Virginia to the vacant western territory, and of the right of the United States to the
