FEDERAL PROCESSION, 24 JULY 1788

And thou, grown dim with honorable age,
Whose Lore shall grace the scientific page,
Franklin, the patriot, venerable Sage,
Of philosophic memory! And thou,(c)
Our City's boast, to whom so much we owe;
In whom, tho' last and youngest of the three,
No common share of excellence we see:
In ev'ry grateful heart thou hast a place,
Nor Time, nor Circumstance can e'er erase.
All hail, ye Champions in your Country's cause!
Soon shall that Country ring with your applause-
With such, and with ten thousand Patriots more,
To what vast Fame this Western World shall soar!
Discord shall cease, and perfect Union reign,
And all confess that sweetly-pow'rful chain,
The Fed'ral System, which, at once, unites
The Thirteen States, and all the people's rights.
Oh, may those rights be sacred to the end,
And to our vast posterity descend;
That beauteous Structure flourish and expand,
And ceaseless Blessings crown our native Land!
(a) Columbus.
(b) Alluding to the late war.
(c) Alexander Hamilton, Esquire.
1. Alexander the Great.
2. A nymph at Rome, who presided over gardens and was the goddess of fruit trees.
3. Goddess of grain and harvests.
4. George Washington.
Don Diego de Gardoqui to Conde de Floridablanca
New York, 24 July 17881
The Inhabitants of this City desiring to give demonstrations of the
federal spirit which dominates them, and the great joy with which they
cover their Hearts with the adoption of the new System of Government
by ten States, they resolved to make it known with a magnificent pro-
cession, and a splendid banquet yesterday.
For this purpose they invited long beforehand the Society or Order
of Cincinatus, the Chamber of Commerce, the College of Sciences, the
College of Lawyers, Workers, Merchant Marine, Guilds, Occupations,
and various other persons, whose brotherhoods or fraternities adopted

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