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Editorial
September 13, 1808
The New Hampshire Gazette
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
What is this article about?
The Salem Register editorial accuses Federalists of spreading lies about the embargo's devastating effects, specifically refuting a claim from the New York Evening Post that 300 families in Salem, Massachusetts, have been reduced to private charity for subsistence.
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LYING is the method the federalists have adopted to create confusion and disaffection to the laws among the people. No sooner is one lie refuted, than they have half a dozen more ready coined to crowd upon their readers. They however, take good care not to encumber their paper with the refutation of their falsehoods.—The following paragraph is from the New York Evening Post of the 12th ult.
"We have received information, (says the Albany Crisis, on which we may rely, that '300 families in the single town of Salem, Massachusetts, in addition to the usual number of paupers, are reduced to the necessity of relying on private charity for subsistence—Indeed, indeed, (to use the language of the Register) THE EMBARGO TELLS!"
This "information" is no doubt as correct as two thirds of the stories on which federalists "rely." But we do not know nor have we heard on enquiry, of a single family in Salem which have been reduced by the embargo "to the necessity of relying on private charity for subsistence."
Salem Register.
"We have received information, (says the Albany Crisis, on which we may rely, that '300 families in the single town of Salem, Massachusetts, in addition to the usual number of paupers, are reduced to the necessity of relying on private charity for subsistence—Indeed, indeed, (to use the language of the Register) THE EMBARGO TELLS!"
This "information" is no doubt as correct as two thirds of the stories on which federalists "rely." But we do not know nor have we heard on enquiry, of a single family in Salem which have been reduced by the embargo "to the necessity of relying on private charity for subsistence."
Salem Register.
What sub-type of article is it?
Partisan Politics
Economic Policy
What keywords are associated?
Federalist Lies
Embargo Effects
Salem Massachusetts
Partisan Attacks
Economic Hardship Claims
What entities or persons were involved?
Federalists
New York Evening Post
Albany Crisis
Salem Register
Editorial Details
Primary Topic
Refutation Of Federalist Lies About Embargo's Impact In Salem
Stance / Tone
Anti Federalist Defense Of The Embargo
Key Figures
Federalists
New York Evening Post
Albany Crisis
Salem Register
Key Arguments
Federalists Use Lying To Create Confusion And Disaffection
They Quickly Produce More Lies After Refutations
They Avoid Publishing Refutations Of Their Falsehoods
Claim Of 300 Families In Salem Reduced To Charity By Embargo Is False
No Known Cases Of Embargo Causing Such Poverty In Salem