Word: printings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...widely into commerce. Merchants who sell British goods have had their store windows daubed with human feces, and if that is not enough, they are variously burned in effigy or hoisted by the belts to the top of liberty poles. Most newspapers sympathetic to Britain?or even willing to print both sides of the political debate?have been put out of business by rioters. "All law and government, here as well as elsewhere, seems now nearly at an end," said Sir James Wright, the Royal Governor of Georgia, shortly before quitting the Colonies. Better one tyrant 3,000 miles away...
Much of the blame, however, can also be placed on the cost of the war itself, which is vastly more than anyone would have predicted even a few months ago. Not only have purchases for the Army made many scarce goods scarcer, but Congress has been forced to print much more paper money than it had anticipated. According to current estimates, another 5 million Continental dollars will have to be emitted later this month in addition to the 15 million so far.* This "emission" is done simply by printing more paper money, but since Congress has no right to levy...
...number of New York papers plan to print the full Declaration this week, and the news will probably appear in Williamsburg's two rival Virginia Gazettes and Boston's New England Chronicle next week. Readers in Delaware, South Carolina, Georgia and New Jersey?where there are at present no newspapers published?will have to rely on whatever journals eventually arrive from other states. In some places, publishers are making up in patriotic zeal what they lack in timeliness. New York's John Holt, for instance, plans to print the text of the Declaration on a special page of this week...
...course, even ardently patriotic printers rarely ventilate their own opinions in print, a situation that says less about the state of patriotism than about the structure of the newspaper business today. Newspapers are typically published as a secondary occupation by printers who derive a large part of their income from turning out business forms, announcements, pamphlets and similar work for their clients. Unpaid correspondents write nearly all of the news that fills most papers, and their contributions generally appear unedited...
This zeal may be getting out of hand. Last November the Sons of Liberty destroyed the press and type of New York Gazetteer Publisher James Rivington, who had attempted to print articles on both sides of the independence issue. A few months later, Portsmouth Printer Daniel Fowle, self-professed champion of press freedom, was summoned before the New Hampshire House of Representatives to answer for an article in his Gazette attacking independence; his paper has not appeared since. New York Packet Publisher Samuel Loudon reports that he was warned recently by the local Committee of Safety not to distribute...