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Letter to Editor
January 30, 1793
National Gazette
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
What is this article about?
Satirical letter deriding federal government officers as a new privileged order, proposing the 'most noble order of the goose' with heraldic arms featuring a knife and fork, the genius of America, a feather crest, a rattle ribbon, and the motto 'pleased with a rattle and tickled with a straw.'
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[From another Correspondent.]
It appears from some late publications, that a new order of citizens has been created in the United States, consisting only of the officers of the federal government.—The privileges of this order, it is said, consist in sharing, exclusively, in the profits of the 25,000 dollars a year allowed for the President's table, and in the honor of gazing upon him once a week at his levees—It remains only to give this new order a name, and assign it a proper coat of arms and insignia; I shall therefore propose that it be called the most noble order of the goose, and that it have assumptive arms, in the dexter side of the escutcheon of which shall be a knife and fork, or. the genius of America couchant on the sinister base sable, the crest a feather, argent. A ribbon with a rattle suspended to it, to be worn round the waist instead of the shoulder, in imitation of a child's sash, and that the order of the motto be, "pleased with a rattle and tickled with a straw."
It appears from some late publications, that a new order of citizens has been created in the United States, consisting only of the officers of the federal government.—The privileges of this order, it is said, consist in sharing, exclusively, in the profits of the 25,000 dollars a year allowed for the President's table, and in the honor of gazing upon him once a week at his levees—It remains only to give this new order a name, and assign it a proper coat of arms and insignia; I shall therefore propose that it be called the most noble order of the goose, and that it have assumptive arms, in the dexter side of the escutcheon of which shall be a knife and fork, or. the genius of America couchant on the sinister base sable, the crest a feather, argent. A ribbon with a rattle suspended to it, to be worn round the waist instead of the shoulder, in imitation of a child's sash, and that the order of the motto be, "pleased with a rattle and tickled with a straw."
What sub-type of article is it?
Satirical
Provocative
Social Critique
What themes does it cover?
Politics
What keywords are associated?
Federal Officers
Presidential Table
Levees
Order Of The Goose
Satire
Heraldic Arms
Motto
What entities or persons were involved?
Another Correspondent
Letter to Editor Details
Author
Another Correspondent
Main Argument
federal government officers form a new privileged order akin to nobility, entitled only to shares in the president's table expenses and weekly levee attendance, which the writer satirically dubs the 'order of the goose' with childish insignia.
Notable Details
Most Noble Order Of The Goose
Assumptive Arms With Knife And Fork
Genius Of America Couchant
Ribbon With A Rattle
Motto: 'Pleased With A Rattle And Tickled With A Straw'