Connecticut as a colony and as a state; or, One of the original thirteen; . epublics are proverbially ingrates; also proverbially/Putnot your trust in princes : the fact is that honors or dishonorsare even. The most faithful servants of either, at times, suf-fer indignities for which no subsequent vindication can fullyatone, or entirely remove from the victims the stain of calum-nies engendered by political feuds. Such a sufferer was SilasDeane. He was born at Groton Dec. 24, 1737, graduatingfrom Yale on attaining his majority; and engaged in mer-cantile business at Wethersfield. He was appoin
Connecticut as a colony and as a state; or, One of the original thirteen; . epublics are proverbially ingrates; also proverbially/Putnot your trust in princes : the fact is that honors or dishonorsare even. The most faithful servants of either, at times, suf-fer indignities for which no subsequent vindication can fullyatone, or entirely remove from the victims the stain of calum-nies engendered by political feuds. Such a sufferer was SilasDeane. He was born at Groton Dec. 24, 1737, graduatingfrom Yale on attaining his majority; and engaged in mer-cantile business at Wethersfield. He was appointed delegateto the first Continental Congress, and became active in theformation of a naval force for the colonies. At the close ofthe year 1775, Congress appointed a committee for the solepurpose of holding secret communication with friends 0/America in foreign countries; the colonies were desirous ofreceiving recognition from, and obtaining alliances with, theEuropean powers. In March, 1776, Silas Deane wasappointed the first diplomatic agent for the embryo nation. 202. From the painting by Alonzo DeKALB INTRODUCING LaFAYETTE TO SILAS DEANE CONNECTICUT IN THE REVOLUTION His instructions were to proceed to the French court, andoperate there and elsewhere on the Continent; to obtainclothes and munitions of war for an army of 25,000 men, andto solicit the alliance of France if the colonies succeeded inattaining their independence. Deane arrived in Paris in the summer of 1776, disguisedas a private merchant; he received courteous treatment, butthough Louis XV. was pleased at the break between GreatBritain and her colonies, he feared to involve his country inopen hostilities. Some of his advisers also had sense to seethat a nominal autocracy would be mad to encourage democ-racy and rebellion. Previous to Deanes arrival, the famousBeaumarchais became acquainted with Arthur Lee, the Lon-don correspondent of Congress; secret negotiations wereentered into between them,
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