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The State of Franklin secedes from North Carolina, Dangers of Employing Foreigners - and Explosion o

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The State of Franklin secedes from North Carolina, Dangers of Employing Foreigners - and Explosion o
Action-packed issue of The Pennsylvania Packet, and Daily Advertiser, printed by Dunlap and Claypoole, Sept. 21, 1785, 11 1/2 x 18 1/2, 4 pp. On p. 3, "His excellency Alexander Martin, gov. of North-Carolina, has published a long and spirited manifesto, directed to the inhabitants of the counties of Washington, Sullivan and Greene...having received letters from brig. gen. Sevier, under the style and character of governor; and from Messrs. Landon Carter, and William Cage, as speakers of the senate and commons of the state of Franklin, informing him, that they, with the inhabitants of part of the territory ceded to Congress, had declared themselves independent of the state of N.C., and no longer considered themselves under the sovereignty and jurisdiction... stating their reasons for their separation and revolt...." Letter from Salem, Mass.: "...There was a schooner in the Bay...I having a fast sailing brig at the wharf, thought it best to go out after her. I have the pleasure to say, that we have...the pirates in this gaol...." From Boston: "...It is impolitick and dangerous to employ foreigners in our navigation...We can have no confidence in nor dependance on to act in the defence of our country...In case of war with any marine power we should...labor under the mortifying misfortune of seeing...those very seamen who we have so imprudently nursed up in our bosoms, as it were, armed in the service of our enemies, to destroy us and lay waste our country...." Full column on death of French aeronaut de Rozier in explosion of a Montgolfier Brothers balloon: "...I was an advocate for a union of the two ruinous principles, the idea that a large envelope, filled with inflammable air, was to be exposed to the action of fire...," with dramatic eye-witness account of sudden, spectacular explosion of the silk balloon at some 3,000 feet. From N.Y.: "John Benson, a free mulatto man, a noted robber, and lately a terror to many of the inhabitants of this city, convicted of burglary, received sentence of death, and his execution is appointed to be on Fri...William Morton and Samuel Horner...printers, indicted and convicted of publishing a certain vile, wicked, impure and obscene pamphlet...and impiously tending to bring the Christian religion into scandal and contempt...to pay a fine of PS40 each...." Philadelphia ads include "A very elegant Chariot...back of the City-tavern," and General Post Office request for bids for "conveyance of the different mails, by the stage carriages, from Portsmouth, N.H., to...Savannah, Ga., and from the city of N.Y., to...Albany...," with lengthy recitation of postal rules and regulations. Uniform toning, nearly separated at spine, short tears at horizontal fold, tips creased and fragile, else about very good. WorldCat locates about nine copies.