CONCLUSION.
Years elapsed. Hostilities between Great Britain and the American
Colonies had ceased; and on the 20th of January, 1783, the preliminary
articles of peace were signed, which established the independence
of the United States. The adoption of the Federal Constitution
followed, which was ratified by the thirteen original States, and the
first Congress assembled under it March 3d, 1789. During the period
succeeding the peace, Vermont had been pursuing the even tenor of her
way, not over-solicitous about an organic union with the States, and
without any external foes to dread. But the ancient difference with New
York still remained unsettled. A new political generation had come upon
the stage, in whose bosoms the bitter feuds of their fathers were not
perpetuated.
One difficulty, however, presented itself. New York had aforetime
granted large tracts of land in Vermont, and the grantees were loudly
complaining of the injustice in not being allowed to take possession of
the property, or having its purchase price refunded. New York felt no
very strong obligation to refund the money that had been extorted for
those grants by royal governors before the war; still she was disposed
to favor a compromise. Public opinion and mutual interests called for
a reconciliation with Vermont, and her admission into the Confederacy
of States, inasmuch as the measure would increase the representation of
New England in Congress.
On the 23d of October, 1789, committees from the respective
Legislatures of Vermont and New York met to arrange the settlement of
the only issue remaining--the amount of compensation the claimants
under the New York grants should receive from Vermont. It was agreed
that on payment being made to her of $30,000, New York was to consent
to the admission of Vermont into the Union, and to give up all claims
to jurisdiction within the latter State. On the 18th of February, 1791,
Congress, without a dissenting voice or vote, passed an Act “That on
the 4th day of March, 1791, the said State, by the name and style of
the ‘State of Vermont,’ shall be received and admitted into their Union
as a new and entire member of the United States of America.”
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FOOTNOTES:
[A] In 1763, Rev. Samuel Peters, the first clergyman who paid a visit
to the thirty thousand settlers in that country, in the presence of
a number of landed proprietors, performed the ceremony of giving a
new name to the province, “on the top of a rock standing on a high
mountain, then named Pisgah, because it provided the company a clear
sight of Lake Champlain to the west, and of the Connecticut River to
the east, and which overlooked all the trees and hills in the vast
wilderness at the north and south,” ... which new name is “Verd Mont,”
in token that her mountains and hills shall ever be green and never
die. He then poured the spirits about him and cast the bottle at the
rock. The ceremony being over, the company descended Mount Pisgah and
took refreshments in a log house, kept by Captain Otley, where they
spent the night with great pleasure.--Hist. Mag.
[B] Should read “Beekman’s” Patent, in Duchess County, probably in the
present town of Pawling.
[C] An expression signifying an application of the beech rod.
[D] Irving describes Allen as “well-fitted for the enterprise by his
experience as a frontier champion, his robustness of mind and body,
and his fearless spirit. He had a rough kind of eloquence, also, that
was very effective with his followers.” “His style,” says another who
knew him personally, “was a singular compound of local barbarisms,
scriptural phrases, and oriental wildness: and though unclassic, and
sometimes ungrammatical, was highly animated and forcible.” General
Washington wrote, “there is an original something in him which commands
attention.”
[E] Ira Allen’s History of Vermont.
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