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picious occasion, which was returned with equal warmth:-This deputation gave rise to
another toast, which was, 'The Society of the Cincinnati' " (Mfm:N.Y). This statement
also appeared in the Country journal of 8 July (Mfm:N.Y).
13. The New York Packet, 8 July, described this event thusly: "In the evening a brilliant
assembly of the Fair honored the President and his Lady with their company, where tea,
coffee, ices, lemonades, &c. were provided for their refreshment. By the President's or-
ders, all the remains of a plentiful entertainment were immediately distributed among
the poor" (Mfm:N.Y.).
14. For a portrait of Washington done by Joseph Wright, see Wendy C. Wick, George
Washington: An American Icon, The Eighteenth-Century Graphic Portraits (Washington, D.C.,
1982), 38. See also Monroe H. Fabian, Joseph Wright, American Artist, 1756-1793 (Wash-
ington, D.C., 1985).
15. The Battery was an earthwork that extended for about 1,450 feet from Battery
Place, along the water's edge, to Whitehall Slip at the southern tip of Manhattan Island.
New York Journal, 10 July 17881
Last Friday the anniversary of American Independence was pom-
pously celebrated in this city. The compliments and gratulations which
passed were not all acrimonial, but the chief of them cordially har-
monious. In some companies the joy of the ratification sufficit was con-
solidated with that of this ever memorable anniversary, but, with the
zealous advocates for American freedom and independence, this last
was procrastinated, and kept entirely out of sight by the liberal, who
conceive, that every man has yet a right to enjoy his own sentiment.
Col. Duer, by his oration on this occasion, gained great applause.
A celebration, on the 4th of July, has taken place pretty universally; we
have had no accounts from any quarter of the United States but which
mention the modes pursued even in small villas, to express the general
joy on this anniversary, and the great event of the ratification of the
new proposed constitution by ten states.
At Philadelphia, we are told, that the procession, on that day, cost
but a little more than one thousand pound: thus demonstrating the dis-
tresses of the inhabitants of that populous city!2
1. The first paragraph was reprinted in the Philadelphia Independent Gazetteer, 14 July,
and Pennsylvania journal, 16 July. The second and third paragraphs were reprinted in the
Middletown, Conn., Middlesex Gazette, 14 July, and Philadelphia Independent Gazetteer, 14
July, while only the second paragraph was reprinted in the Maryland Journal, 18 July.
2. For Philadelphia's grand federal procession on the Fourth of July, see CC:799 E-F
and CC:805.
Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County
New York Daily Advertiser, 9 July 17881
A letter from Poughkeepsie, dated on Saturday last, gives the follow-
ing account of the celebration of the 4th of July at that place.

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