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Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Southern newspapers suggest to Federal Convention deputies dissolving the Confederation and dividing the United States into four republics: New England states (plus Vermont), Mid-Atlantic states, Southern states, and Western territories. This aims to align climate, religion, manners, and interests for greater unanimity, security, and economic promotion.
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The first to Contain the States of New-Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island & Connecticut, to which Vermont might be added. The second to contain New-York, New-Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania and Maryland. The third, Virginia, the two Carolinas, and Georgia. And the fourth to contain, the States of Franklin, Kentucky, and the lands lying on the Ohio. This division seems to be pointed out by the climate, whose effect no positive law ever can surpass. The religion, manners, customs, exports, imports, and general interest of each being then the same; no opposition arising from difference in these (as at present) would any longer divide their councils. Unanimity would render us secure at home, and respected abroad, and promote agriculture, manufactures and commerce.
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A hint has in the southern papers, been suggested to the deputies to the Federal Convention, on the propriety of recommending a dissolution of the Confederation, and a division of the States into four republics. The first to Contain the States of New-Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island & Connecticut, to which Vermont might be added. The second to contain New-York, New-Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania and Maryland. The third, Virginia, the two Carolinas, and Georgia. And the fourth to contain, the States of Franklin, Kentucky, and the lands lying on the Ohio. This division seems to be pointed out by the climate, whose effect no positive law ever can surpass. The religion, manners, customs, exports, imports, and general interest of each being then the same; no opposition arising from difference in these (as at present) would any longer divide their councils. Unanimity would render us secure at home, and respected abroad, and promote agriculture, manufactures and commerce.