Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1859, by W. R. C. CLARK & MEEKER, In the Clerk's Office of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. то THE MERCHANTS OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, WHO, CHEERFULLY SACRIFICING THEIR INTEREST TO THAT OF THEIR COUNTRY IN THE REVOLUTION, WERE THE FIRST TO PROPOSE A NON-INTERCOURSE ACT-THE LAST TO RENOUNCE IT, AND THE ONLY ONES TO MAINTAIN AND WHO, BY THEIR ENERGY AND ENTERPRISE, HAVE MADE THEIR CITY AT THE PRESENT TIME THE COMMERCIAL METROPOLIS OF THE WESTERN WORLD, This Work is Juscribed. |