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...after most wars, stay-at-homes expected the worst of the returning soldier, "remembering a robbed beehive or stolen goose more vividly than life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." "We are become," wrote a pensioned officer, "not only the objects of abuse in the publick prints and called the Harpies and Locusts of the Country, but are even so obnoxious as to be Mobbed...
Colonel Williamson, an English land agent with two million acres to dispose of, dreamed of establishing a landed aristocracy in the most spacious European tradition. The Publick Universal Friend, a female embodiment of Christ on earth, lived and prophesied there with her seven handmaidens; she was determined that the land should become an American Canaan. A European fourflusher named Berezy made trouble with a deluded rabble he had brought with him from the gutters of Hamburg. The Maryland aristocrat Peregrine Fitzhugh freed his 40 slaves to found a settlement of free Africans. Simcoe, Governor of Canada, still had hopes...
...therefore earnestly intreat all the Elders of this Jurisdiction (as often as they shall see cause) to manifest their Zeale against it in their publick Administration...
Last week all Wisconsin chuckled as university students retaliated in their fashion. The Wisconsin Octopus, campus funnypaper, published Poor Julius' Almanack for i$3Q-"Being Proverbs and Preachments, Suitable for Committing to Memory - These Most Faithfully Set Down from the Publick Utterances of Your Friend and Ours, the Reticent Mr. Heil." Excerpts...
...earliest proclamation in the collection is of March 9, 1743, and issued by Governor William Shirley, of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, announcing a "Publick Fast" to be held Thursday, April...