As of possible interest, it may be noted, incidentally, as the probable
origin of the name of the later short-lived "Fredonian Republic" in Texas,
that Morse in the 1804 edition of his American
Gazetteer
(Introduction
and Appendix) suggested and argued at length for "Fredonia" as a new
and more suitable name for the United States, a "generic
name" which
"shall honourably distinguish our country from the rest of the world,"
being more eloquent of our political principles than "America" or
"Columbia."
