History of the city of New York : its origin, rise, and progress . rages were published inthe American news-papers, frequently mag-nified, but with suffi-cient foundation in truthto alienate any peoplefrom the Livingston hadalready begun to makehis pen useful in thecause of America; andto counteract the effectsof Eivingtons loyalistpaper in New York, heaided Isaac Collins inestablishing Tlic NewJersey Gazette at Bur-lington, which, removingfrom town to town aspolicy or prudence dictated, continued throughout the war the leadingvehicle of information in this State. Livings
History of the city of New York : its origin, rise, and progress . rages were published inthe American news-papers, frequently mag-nified, but with suffi-cient foundation in truthto alienate any peoplefrom the Livingston hadalready begun to makehis pen useful in thecause of America; andto counteract the effectsof Eivingtons loyalistpaper in New York, heaided Isaac Collins inestablishing Tlic NewJersey Gazette at Bur-lington, which, removingfrom town to town aspolicy or prudence dictated, continued throughout the war the leadingvehicle of information in this State. Livingstons essays, through theirbold reasoning and scoffing ridicule of kingly threats, ilid more to pre-vent vacillation and fear, and convince the New Jersey patriots thatultimate success on the part of Great Britain was impossible, than anyother agency. And while he was presiding over the Council of Safety,sometimes at Trenton, sometimes at Jlorristown, and anywhere in themountains or woods between, his bright and gifted daughters wrote hiscaustic articles for ~-%*3r^^ V r John Jay. [From a porlrait m tlie possession of his grandson. Hon John Jay.] 176 HISTORY OF THE CITY OF NE]V YORK. On the 9tli of September, two days before Howe met Washington be-low Pliiladelphia, while Biirgoyne was moving slowly down upon AlVianyfrom the North like a terrible cloud, and Sir Heiny Llinton was Sept. 9 menacing the Hudson River passage to form a junction with him— shortly to reduce the building where the scene occurred, together withthe whole village, to ashes —John Jay, the first chief justice of the newState of New York, opened its supreme court in Kingston, charging thegrand jury that the people of New York had chosen their Constitutionunder the guidance of reason and experience, and that the highest re-spect had been made to those great and equal rights of human .naturewliich sliould ever remain inviolate in every society. You will know,he said, no power Init such as you create, n
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