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Domestic News August 31, 1786

Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire

What is this article about?

Correspondent decries impudent interference by recent immigrants in Pennsylvania politics, referencing past disruptions by Osborne during the late war and current agitations against the Bank of North America, for paper currency, and personal attacks on a lawyer.

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August 12. Nothing can be conceived of more impudent (says one of our correspondents) than to see the strangers and foreigners intermeddling in our politics as soon as they set their feet upon our shores. During the late war, the state of Pennsylvania was kept in constant hot water by Osborne, and some others, of equally turbulent and worthless characters. At present the state is threatened with a convulsion by a set of new comers, who call themselves "Lately adopted sons." One of them, who, probably, earned a scanty subsistence in a garret, in London, or in the West Indies, during the late war, by writing against the American rebels, now yields himself as a willing instrument of the rage of a crazy old man, against the bank of North-America. Another, who never saw a paper shilling in his life, until he came to America, a year or two ago, and who knows nothing of the nature or principles of a paper currency, echoes the bellowing of a party in its favour; a third accuses an eminent lawyer of gross blunders in his profession, and then insults him with a challenge for laughing at his ignorance and stupidity.

What sub-type of article is it?

Politics Economic

What keywords are associated?

Foreign Interference Pennsylvania Politics Bank Of North America Paper Currency Immigrant Agitators

What entities or persons were involved?

Osborne

Where did it happen?

Pennsylvania

Domestic News Details

Primary Location

Pennsylvania

Event Date

August 12

Key Persons

Osborne

Event Details

Correspondent complains of foreigners intermeddling in Pennsylvania politics upon arrival, citing past disruptions by Osborne and others during the late war, and current threats from newcomers self-styled 'Lately adopted sons' who oppose the Bank of North America under a 'crazy old man,' support paper currency despite ignorance, and accuse and challenge an eminent lawyer.

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