PHILANTHROPIC ENTERPRISE: The Imperial Contradictions of Republican Political Economy in Philadelphia during the Era of Lewis and Clark

From: Transactions of the American Philosophical Society | Date: January 1, 2004| Author: Kimmel, S D | Copyright information

Upon the Citizens of Pennsylvania is turned, the attention of Europe, observing, whether we know how to use, as well as how to acquire, Empire; whether we are to be admired, or despised; in fine, whether, left as we are to ourselves, upon this fair and solemn trial, before the Nations of the Earth, the cause of Republican Liberty shall be justified by its effects, or shall be condemned as the introducer of more Calamities than it removes.

GEORGE LOGAN, Lancaster, March 14, 1800

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