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Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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The Pennsylvania General Assembly presented an affectionate address to Benjamin Franklin congratulating his safe return, services in independence and peace, and role in the state's constitution. Franklin responded thanking them and expressing hopes for lasting peace.
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On Thursday last the Honorable General Assembly of Pennsylvania, by a Committee consisting of the Speaker and a Member from each county, presented the following Address, which was read by the Speaker.
To the Honorable Benjamin Franklin, Esq. L. L. D. &c.
The representatives of the Freemen of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly met, in the most affectionate manner congratulate you on your safe arrival in your native country, after so long an absence on the most important business.--We likewise congratulate you on the firm establishment of the independence of America, and the settlement of a general peace, after the interesting struggle in which we were so long engaged.
We are confident, Sir, that we speak the sentiments of this whole country, when we say, that your services, in the public councils and negociations, have not only merited the thanks of the present generation, but will be recorded in the pages of history, to your immortal honour.--And it is particularly pleasing to us that while we are sitting as members of the assembly of Pennsylvania, we have the happiness of welcoming into the state, a person who was so greatly instrumental in forming its free and excellent constitution.
May it please God to give you a serene and peaceful enjoyment of the evening of life, and a participation of that happiness you have been so instrumental in securing to others.
Signed by order of the House,
JOHN BAYARD, Speaker.
To which the following answer was received:
Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen,
I am extremely happy to find by your friendly and affectionate address, that my endeavors to serve our country in the late important struggle have met with the approbation of so respectable a body as the representatives of the freemen of Pennsylvania. I esteem their approbation as one of the greatest honors of my life. I hope the peace, with which God has been graciously pleased to bless us, may be lasting, and that the free constitution we now enjoy, may long contribute to promote our common felicity. The kind wishes of the General Assembly for my particular happiness affects me very sensibly, and I beg they would accept my thankful acknowledgements.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.
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The Honorable General Assembly of Pennsylvania presented an address congratulating Benjamin Franklin on his safe arrival, services in public councils and negotiations for American independence and peace, and his role in forming the state's constitution. Franklin responded thanking the assembly for their approbation and expressing hopes for lasting peace and felicity under the free constitution.