A correſpondent wiſhes that a monument could be erected in Union Green, with the following inſcription:—
IN HONOUR OF
AMERICAN BEER and CYDER.
It is hereby recorded, for the information of ſtrangers and poſterity, that 17000 people aſſembled on this Green, on the 4th of July, 1788, to celebrate the eſtabliſhment of the Conſtitution of the United States, and that they ſeparated at an early hour, without intoxication or a ſingle quarrel. They drank nothing but Beer and Cyder. Learn, reader, to prize thoſe invaluable federal liquors, and to conſider them as the companions of thoſe virtues which can alone render our country free and reſpectable.
Learn likewiſe to deſpiſe
SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS, as antifederal;
and to conſider them as the companions of all thoſe vices which are calculated to diſhonour and enſlave our country.
In these "awfully fine" times, the following lines ought to be interesting:—
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From the Lady's Miscellany.
YANKEE PHRASES.