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{"value"=>"EM. 14285", "type"=>"local_emmet"}
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{"value"=>"Jan. 2, 1800", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1800-01-02"}
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{"value"=>"Letter to Horatio Gates, Rose Hill"}
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{"value"=>"A. L. S. 2 pp. Fo", "format"=>"simple"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"New York. Has withdrawn from the festivity of the parlor to present to Gates the sincerest wishes that a friendship of twenty-three years could frame; knows not that a protracted life was a more reasonable wish, or desirable object than at present, when every hour productive of some great event in the interest of mankind; to Gates and himself looking to a political millenium, (the religious they leave to John Jay), the drama is of infinite moment; but what are human hopes! their old acquaintance, Washington, was not without his, his constitution, etc., bespoke a firmness which might have carried him 15 or 20 years into the present century, -- but he was not permitted to pass its threshold; \"nil nisi bonum de mortuis\" has been universally adopted; good fortune has not abandoned her favorite at the grave; the dead Washington fated to be as little known and as much misrepresented as the living; has bespoken his own eulogy; it was reported that the Pliny of our Trajan is David Humphries, who had already tried his powers on the life and labors of old Putnam, [Humphrey's Essay on the Life of .... Israel Putnam, Philadelphia, 1798]; too much to expect him to quicken the dead, the choice of subject betrayed a want of judgment, the manner of execution a want of everything a biographer ought to have; understands [Charles] Lee and [Gouverneur] Morris were appointed to make the funeral orations at Philadelphia and New York; Lee might be tolerable, but let Morris study and let him write and he shall never rise above contempt; concludes with domestic details and friendly wishes."}
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{"value"=>"Armstrong, John (Clermont, N.Y.)", "type"=>"persname", "role"=>"Author"}
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1800
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1800
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1800-01-02
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1800-01-02
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1800-01-02