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Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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From Charlestown, speculation that Vermont refused confederation membership to avoid paying accumulated debts, with Kentucky likely to follow suit. New states expected to surpass old ones in population and prosperity, leaving elder states debt-ridden and miserable under aristocratic governments.
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It is faid, that Vermont has refufed to accept of a place in the confederation, becaufe she will not make herfelf liable to pay any of our unjuftly accumulated debts. Kentuckey, probably, will follow the example as foon as Vermont fets up for herfelf. In a few years the new ftates will contain more inhabitants than the old. They will be free of debt, rich, and happy, while we, the elder fifters, fhall be divided into tenants and landlords, and confequently miferable, with governments truly ariftocratick, and our ftates divided into confederated and unconfederated.
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Charlestown
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May 18.
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It is faid, that Vermont has refufed to accept of a place in the confederation, becaufe she will not make herfelf liable to pay any of our unjuftly accumulated debts. Kentuckey, probably, will follow the example as foon as Vermont fets up for herfelf. In a few years the new ftates will contain more inhabitants than the old. They will be free of debt, rich, and happy, while we, the elder fifters, fhall be divided into tenants and landlords, and confequently miferable, with governments truly ariftocratick, and our ftates divided into confederated and unconfederated.