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THE REPUBLICAN COURT.

urday, about nine o'clock in the evening, news arrived in the city of the acceptance of the new Constitution by the State Convention at Poughkeepsie. "The bells," says a contemporary writer, "were immediately set a-ringing, and from the fort and the federal ship Hamilton, there were repeated discharges of artillery. The merchants at the coffee-house testified their joy by huzzas, and a large body of citizens, headed by a number of the first characters, went to the houses of the city members of the Convention, and gave three cheers, as a testimony of their approbation of the glorious event brought about by their united, unremitted, and toilsome exertions. In short, a general joy ran through the whole town, and several of those who were of different sentiments drank freely of the federal bowl, and declared they were now perfectly reconciled to the new Constitution."

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