Joseph Story: Letter to Samuel P. P. Fay as “Matthew Bramble”

( 1807 ) Commentary by Austin Allen, University of Houston - Downtown

“I am now at the seat of government.… Slowly and silently the infant city rises, and seems to demand a century of years before it can become a numerous metropolis. Unfortunately, commerce has not fixed here her abode, and despotism cannot draw its millions to the spot. St. Petersburg might be dragged from the fens of the Baltic by a Czar, but among a free people the tide of population follows the mart of commerce more than the residence of power.” - Letter to Samuel P. P. Fay as “Matthew Bramble"

Joseph Story (U.S. Supreme Court)

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