PHILADELPHIA, July 23 [1788].
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.
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In these "awfully fine" times, the following lines ought to be
interesting:--
......POETRY......
_From the Lady's Miscellany._