Illustration of Sir William Johnson talking to a Mohawk Chief.

Identifier: historyofcityof00lamb (find matches)
Title: History of the city of New York: its origin, rise and progress
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Lamb, Martha J. (Martha Joanna), 1829-1893 Harrison, Constance Cary, "Mrs. Burton Harrison,", 1846-1920
Subjects: New York (N.Y.) -- History
Publisher: New York : A. S. Barnes and company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Sir Peter Warren's House.
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Ugh' 1 no dream any more. White chief dream better than Indian. Page 588.
GOVERNOR CLINTON. 589
progress of the yellow fever in this latitude, and wrote an interesting
paper, carefully pointing out local circumstances which increased its vio-
lence.¹ He recommended remedies which proved efficacious in a multi-
tude of cases, and sanitary measures which were so prolific in results that
the Common Council of New York tendered him a vote of thanks.
A governor for New York had been for some time foreshadowed.
Clarke's seven years of rule terminated ingloriously. The conces-
sion by which he allowed the Assembly to prescribe the disposition of
supplies granted — hitherto the legal prerogative of the crown — appeased
the popular party only for a short time. The governed are rarely satis-
fied with concessions; each successful demand increases the clamor for
more. It was thus in the experience of the lieutenant-governor. The
Assembly claimed the right to appoint its own treasurer. As soon as
this was conceded, there was a strenuous effort made to secure the privi-
lege of choosing

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