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The Kentucky Gazette
Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky
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A Philadelphia correspondent criticizes encouragement for U.S. citizens to migrate to Spanish territories on the Mississippi, praising American lands in New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia, and noting Spain's lack of land titles while lamenting reports of American discontent with their hard-won liberties.
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With what face, says a correspondent, can a man hold forth encouragement to the citizens of the United States, to quit their liberty and republican form of government for the despotism of Spain, on the Mississippi?
-- It is certain there are no lands in the world superior to those which are now vacant in New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia. It ought to be known here, that no title is ever given by the king of Spain to a foot of soil. The improvements upon it alone are the property of the person who cultivates it. It used to be said that all nations in the world would learn from the success of the Americans to assert their liberties: but this cannot happen, when they read your papers, that our citizens are disgusted with what has cost them so much blood and treasure, and are setting themselves to Spanish masters a thousand miles from home.
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Philadelphia
Event Date
Aug. 20.
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A correspondent questions the audacity of encouraging U.S. citizens to abandon their republican government for Spanish despotism on the Mississippi, asserts superiority of vacant lands in New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia, notes that Spain grants no land titles only improvements as property, and laments reports suggesting American disgust with their liberties leading to subjugation under distant Spanish masters.