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Editorial
January 12, 1787
The New York Packet
New York, New York County, New York
What is this article about?
An unsigned editorial rebuts 'MUTIUS SCEVOLA's' accusations in the New-York Journal, defending printers for publishing foreign extracts as a faithful presentation of intelligence and enemy remarks, not disloyalty, and dismissing claims of misleading the public.
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MUTIUS SCEVOLA.
THE effusions of this gentleman's pen (published in yesterday's New-York Journal) appear to have been dictated by private resentment, and not by a desire to promote the public good. Printers, in extracting articles from foreign papers, and arranging them under their proper heads, doubtless intend to present their readers with a faithful detail, not only of mere intelligence, but of such remarks as their enemies bestow upon them and their government.
It is most assuredly a reflection upon the understandings of a free and independent people, united together by the ties of liberty and concord, even to suppose, that they are so weak as to be misled by the assertions of a foreign paragraphist.
No persons, except the ignorant, envious, or designing, can be so ungenerous as to construe the publishing of such extracts, into a want of affection for the Country in which we live.
THE effusions of this gentleman's pen (published in yesterday's New-York Journal) appear to have been dictated by private resentment, and not by a desire to promote the public good. Printers, in extracting articles from foreign papers, and arranging them under their proper heads, doubtless intend to present their readers with a faithful detail, not only of mere intelligence, but of such remarks as their enemies bestow upon them and their government.
It is most assuredly a reflection upon the understandings of a free and independent people, united together by the ties of liberty and concord, even to suppose, that they are so weak as to be misled by the assertions of a foreign paragraphist.
No persons, except the ignorant, envious, or designing, can be so ungenerous as to construe the publishing of such extracts, into a want of affection for the Country in which we live.
What sub-type of article is it?
Press Freedom
What keywords are associated?
Press Freedom
Foreign Extracts
Public Good
Loyalty
Printers Defense
What entities or persons were involved?
Mutius Scevola
New York Journal
Printers
Editorial Details
Primary Topic
Defense Of Publishing Foreign Press Extracts
Stance / Tone
Defensive Of Printers' Practices, Critical Of Accusers
Key Figures
Mutius Scevola
New York Journal
Printers
Key Arguments
Effusions Dictated By Private Resentment, Not Public Good
Printers Provide Faithful Details Including Enemy Remarks
Assuming Public Misled By Foreign Assertions Insults Their Understanding
Only Ignorant Or Designing Construe Publishing As Lack Of Country Affection