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Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Boston reports widespread disapproval of the Stamp Act passed by the General Court, especially the duty on newspapers, criticized for restricting information, being impolitic by favoring out-of-state papers, and unequal in impacting local printers.
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The STAMP-ACT, passed the last session of the General Court, meets throughout every part of the commonwealth with disapprobation, that part laying a duty on News-Papers, particularly so. The cloven foot in it appears too visible to escape notice. To clog the currents of information--and to Shackle the means of political knowledge and necessary learning--are discordant notes to the general ear. But its danger is not the whole of its evil consequences. It is deemed impolitic and unequal--impolitic, as it will encourage our sister states to send their papers into this commonwealth cheaper than can possibly be afforded here, to the ruin of a set of artisans, whose exertions in the late revolution deserve a more liberal fate.--Unequal, as the revenue arising from News Papers must (while but a mite in the general treasury) operate, in a great degree, to the destruction of the present printers of these publications.
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Primary Location
Boston
Event Date
May 9
Outcome
widespread disapprobation throughout the commonwealth; potential ruin of local printers.
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The Stamp Act, passed in the last session of the General Court, is met with disapproval across the commonwealth, particularly the duty on newspapers, seen as restricting information and political knowledge, impolitic by encouraging cheaper out-of-state papers, and unequal in destroying local printers who aided the revolution.