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...story is plausible. Although no one in Congress argued the case for separation better than Adams, his very zeal and bull-necked honesty did indeed make him obnoxious to many. Besides, the men from Massachusetts, being so far advanced in their enthusiasm, have been wise enough to adopt the habit of deferring to Virginia. As one of the more acute delegates explained it to Adams two years ago: "You must be very cautious ... You must not pretend to take the lead. You know Virginia is the most populous state in the Union. They are very proud. They think they have...
...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's Journal with an exhortation to readers "to separate it from the rest of the paper and fix it up, in open view...
...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...
...represent the broad spectrum of the middle of the road, where I think most Americans are−most Americans in the Republican Party and most Americans in the Democratic Party. The tragedy is that part of the spectrum of the party don't have the same zeal to go to party caucuses, go to the conventions, even to get out the vote...
...governments Harvard is dealing with all have one thing in common--their countries are underdeveloped and sorely in need of training and technological assistance. For its part, Harvard has embarked on its recent spate of overseas commitments with a missionary zeal--the predominant feeling on the part of most University administrators and faculty members involved in these recent deals is that the projects can only serve to "open up" repressive regimes and to provide a new source of enlightened leaders and technicians...