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The Correct Arms of the State of Netu York. 



The result of such measures and discussions would be to restore the 

 Arms to the position which belongs to them. If in 1806, the Arms 

 of tl\e State had been carved and placed solely in the tympanum of 

 the portico of the then New Capitol, as it was intended to have been 

 done at the time when it was built, we would have been spared much 

 of the confusion of the last seventy years. The Arms, besides being 

 placed on seals, flags, military commissions, and medals of honor, 

 might be placed upon all the public buildings, carved in stone or 

 painted, not only on those of the State, but of counties, cities aud 

 towns ; they should wave on a standard jointly with the flag of the 

 United States over the Capitol during sessions of the legislature, and 

 wherever it was natural and desirable to impress a sense of the 

 presence of the sovereignty of the State and of its eminent jurisdic- 

 tion. Every citizen and beholder would be inspired thereby with sen- 

 timents of respect and of patriotic pride in the Empire State. 



XoTE. — On page 266 the Arms, usually called tlie Arms of the city of New 

 Tork, are referred to as the Arms of the Colony or Proyince. The same Arms 

 are indeed those which are stamped both upon the paper currency of the Colonj 

 and upon the editions of the laws of the Colony for more than a score of years 

 preyious to the Revolution. But the change of name from " city " to *' colony " 

 was made in the text while the essay was passing through the press without com- 

 paring it with the context. It would be, howeyer, an investigation of much 

 interest if some gentleman would find time to make it, to discover and trace the 

 history of the origin and varied uses of the Arms of the Civitas of New York 

 from their first introduction to the present time. 



