New York.
1837. The great state of New-York—or the ‘Empire State,’ as it is called—seems to have ransacked the globe for appellations for her numerous towns.—Knick. Mag., ix. 21 (Jan.).
1841. The outpourings of public sentiment in the “Empire State.”—Mr. Tallmadge of New York, U.S. Senate, June 9: Cong. Globe, p. 30, App.
1841. I am not very fond of that term, “Empire State,” in the language of this Union; and I say that if there is an “Empire State” in this Union, it is Delaware…. [But] if my forty friends from New York choose to call it the Empire State, I will not quarrel with them.—John Q. Adams in the House of Representatives, Sept. 4: id., p. 433, App.
1842. The seal of the empire State will not have such a wonderful effect as [Mr. Wright] seems to imagine.—Mr. Crittenden of Kentucky, in the Senate, June 3: id., p. 460, App.
1850. [Mr. William H. Seward] has been clothed with Senatorial robes by the Empire State.—Mr. Clemens of Alabama, U.S. Senate, Jan. 10: id., p. 54, App.
1861. The “Empire State,” vast in her resources, steadfast in her patriotism, loyal in her duty, met the crisis as became her honor.—O. J. Victor, ‘The History … of the Southern Rebellion,’ i. 161.
1861. If I am not at fault, the great Empire State at this time contains a larger population than did the whole of the U.S. of America at the time they achieved their national independence.—Speech of Mr. Lincoln at Albany, Feb. 18: id., i. 378.
1862. [She left] by this day’s coach to spend the summer at her old home in the Empire State.—Rocky Mountain News, Denver, Colo., June 14.
1909. Herkimer, N.Y., may cheer Mr. McClellan as the next Governor of the Empire State, and Eatonville, Dolgeville, Salisbury, Fairfield, and West Schuyler may re-echo the joyful sound.—N.Y. Evening Post, July 6.
