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PG-P.775.025
20 Sep 1775:11 (2439)
To the printers of the Pennsylvania Gazette. Gentlemen, No
explanations on the devices [ ] on the Continental Bills
of Credit having yet appeared, I send you the following
account of them, with my conjectures of their meaning.
Clericus.. . . [9 lines] On one denomination of the bills
there is the figure of a harp with this motto. Majora
Minoribus Consonant; literally, The greater and smaller one
sound together. As the harp is an instrument composed of
great and small strings, included in a strong frame, and all
so tuned as to agree in concord with each other, I conceive
that the frame may be intended to represent our new
government by a Continental Congress; and the strings of
different lengths and substance, whether the several
colonies of different weight and force, or the various ranks
of people in all of them, who are now united by that
government in the most perfect harmony.
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