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Domestic News February 18, 1789

The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire

What is this article about?

A Boston newspaper describes a citizens' procession celebrating the state's accession to the new American confederacy, featuring a British flag hoisted on a cart and saluted with volleys of small shot to express detestation of Britain. The report is criticized for showing American brutality and aversion to the parent country.

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NOVEMBER 5. To the disgrace of the rising States of America, their inhabitants retain even now, in peace, the same venomous aversion to their Parent Country, which in the war, they carried to so odious an excess: In one of the last Boston newspapers, which particularly describes a procession made by the citizens in demonstration of their joy for the accession of their State to the new confederacy, there is an article pointing out with exultation, that "the British flag, hoisted on a cart, was drawn along displayed, and was perpetually saluted by vollies of small shot, in testimony of the detestation in which that perfidious nation ought to be held by America."—The brutality, insolence and cowardice, testified in this story, would render the fact incredible, were it not for this public record of it, which may be read at any of the American coffee-houses in the city.

What sub-type of article is it?

Celebration Politics

What keywords are associated?

Boston Procession British Flag American Confederacy Anti British Demonstration

Where did it happen?

Boston

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Primary Location

Boston

Event Details

Procession by citizens demonstrating joy for the accession of their State to the new confederacy, with the British flag hoisted on a cart, drawn along, and saluted by volleys of small shot in testimony of detestation of Britain.

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