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1Author:  Myers P. Hamilton (Peter Hamilton) 1812-1878Add
 Title:  The first of the Knickerbockers  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | University of Virginia Library, Early American Fiction, 1789-1875 | UVA-LIB-EarlyAmFict1789-1875 
 Description: The great State of New York, rejoicing now in its separate sovereignty, and in its vast metropolis, the conceded capital of the western world, and vieing in resources, both of money and muscles, with the old nations of Europe, seems scarce possibly the same which, less than two centuries ago, was the colonial appendage alternately of England and Holland, and but lightly valued by either. But let it not lower thy honest pride, oh vaunted Empire State! to remember those earlier days, when, in the shuttlecock state of thy existence, thou wast bandied about from owner to owner, now seized by force, and now a mere makeweight, thrown in to settle some more important bargain. And thou, oh gorgeous city of Manhattan! mart of nations! blush not to own thy former self in a small provincial town, clustered around its parent fortress, to carry out the pleasing illusion of protection beneath its dread armament of sixteen frowning guns. Formidable at least were they to the prowling savage, lurking in undiscovered haunts, where now the tide of human life rolls thickest, and where loudest comes the busy hum of commerce to the ear.
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