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Title: The Columbian magazine : or, monthly miscellany
Year: 1787 (1780s)
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Publisher: Philadelphia : T. Seddon, W. Spotswood, C. Cist & J. Trenchard
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
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e, emblematical ofthat government, under which we earneftly wifhthem the full enjoyment of political profperity, andmoral happinefs. EXPLANATION OF THE FRONTISPIECE. A plain but stately edifice, in a durableftyle of architecture: Its portico, feen entire, iscompofed of thirteen columns of the Tufcan order,fupporting a pediment decorated with the armorialinfignia of the United States: Beneath is this in-fcription— SACKED TO LIBERTY, JUSTICE, AND PEACE. Above, ( iv ) Above, are ftatues emblematical of thofe attributesTwo of the columns are cracked—in allufion to thenon-concurring ftates. The genius of the united states, repre-fented by a winged youth, prefents the new confti-tution to Concord, and invites her to the temple :She appears to accede—and Clio kneels, ready torecord the event. The rising sun difpels with his beams the clouds which obfcure the horizon. ■■ Time, at a diftance, refts on his fcythe, and ad-mires the tout-enfemble of the ftru&ure. ESTO PERPETVA ! THE
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ON S :ember, t HER. wind. nd. mdy. nr. :ry dry. THE COLUMBIAN MAGAZINE: For JANUARY, 1788. EMBELLISHED WITH A new and accurate MAP of the State of Pennsylvania. C O N T I. The American Plutarch, or a biogra- phical account of the heroic and virtuousmen, who have, at any time, been inftru-mer.tal to the foundation and proipenty ofthe United States ^3 II. The Life of Governor Winthrop, thefirft Governor of Maffachufetts ib. ZH ExtraS of a letter from an Americangentleman on his travels to his father inPhiladelphia; containing the portraitsofthe leading members in the Bntifh Parlia-ment 5IV. An Effav on Civil Liberty m 9Y Obfervations on the gradation in thefcale of being, between the Human andBrute Creation, including fome curious Y particulars refpc&ing Negroes 14 1. A tiact en the unreafonableiicfs of the ill iftrated w;th law in regard to wives the principal cafes which have arifeh in the administration of thofe laws ^ 22 VII. A letter to the American PhilosophicalgoC to a plafte

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