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Editorial
August 31, 1786
Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
What is this article about?
An editorial contrasts a Chinese maxim promoting labor to prevent suffering with American idleness in importing British fashions. It criticizes British censorship of a South Carolina history reprint as evidence of lost freedom, urging Americans to value their independence.
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BOSTON, August 29.
There is an imperial ordinance in China, which says, 'it was a maxim of their ancestors, that if a man did not employ himself in labour, or a woman in spinning, some person must suffer cold or hunger in the empire.' What an excellent lesson this must prove, if borne about in the general minds of the Americans! We should not then have every wind that blows wafting us some gew-gaw fashion from Great-Britain.
The American Printers are requested to inform the world, that the once boasted land of freedom, Britain, is so sunk in slavery, that even the reprinting the history of South Carolina (because it contains a catalogue of British villanies, and murders,) is deemed illegal and the printers in that island dare not publish it for fear of a ruinous prosecution--Britons, boast no more of freedom--AMERICANS! prize your glorious INDEPENDENCE.
There is an imperial ordinance in China, which says, 'it was a maxim of their ancestors, that if a man did not employ himself in labour, or a woman in spinning, some person must suffer cold or hunger in the empire.' What an excellent lesson this must prove, if borne about in the general minds of the Americans! We should not then have every wind that blows wafting us some gew-gaw fashion from Great-Britain.
The American Printers are requested to inform the world, that the once boasted land of freedom, Britain, is so sunk in slavery, that even the reprinting the history of South Carolina (because it contains a catalogue of British villanies, and murders,) is deemed illegal and the printers in that island dare not publish it for fear of a ruinous prosecution--Britons, boast no more of freedom--AMERICANS! prize your glorious INDEPENDENCE.
What sub-type of article is it?
Moral Or Religious
Press Freedom
Partisan Politics
What keywords are associated?
Chinese Ordinance
Labor Maxim
American Industry
British Censorship
Press Freedom
American Independence
What entities or persons were involved?
China
Great Britain
Britain
American Printers
South Carolina
Editorial Details
Primary Topic
Promotion Of Industry And Criticism Of British Censorship
Stance / Tone
Pro American Independence And Anti British
Key Figures
China
Great Britain
Britain
American Printers
South Carolina
Key Arguments
Chinese Ancestral Maxim Links Personal Idleness To Empire Wide Suffering From Cold Or Hunger
Americans Should Internalize This Lesson To Avoid Importing Trivial British Fashions
Britain Censors Reprint Of South Carolina History Due To Its Exposure Of British Villanies And Murders
British Printers Fear Prosecution, Showing Britain's Descent Into Slavery
Britons Should Cease Boasting Of Freedom; Americans Must Cherish Their Independence