1. Printed: Ford, Webb, III, 112.
2. Evert Bancker agreed, stating that "Yesterday we had the Grandest Procession I
believe that has been in America and Europeans say they have not seen any to come up
to it in the Old Countries" (to Abraham Bancker, 24 July, III, above). See also Boston
Independent Chronicle, 7 August (below).
Prisoners Celebrate the Constitution
New York Daily Advertiser, 25 July 17881
PERCY CASTLE, July 24, 1788.
Mr. Childs, Yesterday being the epocha of the best Constitution ever
formed on earth to promote the happiness of the inhabitants of this
great and rising empire, a number of the unfortunate citizens confined
here, assembled together with heart-felt joy, to celebrate the same;
which they did with the utmost chearfulness, harmony and conviviality;
and after dinner drank the following toasts, which you please to publish
in your useful paper:
N. B. There were 13 in each company.
1. The Majesty of the People of America.
2. The Ten States who have adopted the Constitution.
3. The Congress.
4. The Fair Daughters of Columbia.
5. General Washington.
6. The King and Queen of France.
7. May Agriculture and Manufactures flourish in America.
8. Trade and Navigation.
9. May Virtue flourish and Vice decay.
10. May the places of public worship be regularly filled, and all pris-
ons be empty.
11. May the united Wisdom of America form laws to relieve all honest
men from prison.
12. The Gentlemen whose benificence hath induced them to remem-
ber the oppressed.2
13. The DAY.
1. Reprinted in the New York Journal, 26 July, under the heading "PERCY CASTLE
INTELLIGENCE."
2. Noah Webster's description of New York's Federal Procession states that "In order
to diffuse the joy to all classes of citizens, an ample proportion of the entertainment was
detached to the prisoners in goal" (Daily Advertiser, 2 August, below).
New York Packet, 25 July 17881
It must have been pleasing to every Federalist to perceive the har-
mony which prevailed in the Procession on Wednesday last. The mag-
nificent display of Standards, Insignias, Mechanical Arts, the Federal

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