Debating the issues in colonial newspapers : primary documents on events of the period / / David A. Copeland

• Autore: Copeland David A. <1951->
• Pubblicazione: Westport, Conn. : , : Greenwood Press, , 2000; London : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2024
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (415 p.)
• Disciplina: 973.2
• Soggetto topico: Public opinion - United States - History - 17th century; Public opinion - United States - History - 18th century; American newspapers
• Soggetto geografico: United States History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 Sources; United States Politics and government To 1775 Sources; United States Politics and government To 1775 Public opinion
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [387]-389) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Contents -- Introduction: Newspapers in Colonial America -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 1 Censorship, Printing Control, and Freedom of the Press, 1690 -- IN FAVOR OF CENSORSHIP AND PRESS LIMITATIONS -- WILLIAM BERKELEY: "ENQUIRIES TO THE GOVERNOR OF VIRGINIA" -- THE GOVERNOR'S COUNCIL OF MASSACHUSETTS: "THE SUPPRESSION OF PUBLICK OCCURRENCES" -- AN ANONYMOUS NEW YORKER: "THE DANGERS OF PAPERS AND PAMPHLETS" -- AN ANONYMOUS BOSTONIAN: "CONDEMNATION OF THE PARTY PRESS" -- FRANCIS HOPKINSON: "WHEN GOVERNMENT CAN SUPPRESS THE PRESS" -- DEFENDING FREEDOM OF THE PRESS -- ANDREW HAMILTON: "A PRINCIPAL PILLAR OF A FREE GOVERNMENT" -- W. K.: "OF FREEDOM OF SPEECH" -- AN ANONYMOUS LONDON WRITER: "AN APOLOGY FOR THE LIBERTY OF THE PRESS" -- FREEBORN AMERICAN: "THE NATURE OF POLITICAL LIBERTY" -- ROBERT FOWLE: "A SACRED RIGHT" -- QUESTIONS -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 2 The Inoculation Controversy, 1721 -- ANTI-INOCULATION -- WILLIAM DOUGLASS: "THE HISTORY OF INOCULATION" -- WILLIAM DOUGLASS: "THIS IS A DESPERATE REMEDY" -- ABSINTHIUM: "WHY YOU SHOULD NOT INOCULATE" -- PRO-INOCULATION -- COTTON MATHER: "IN DEFENSE OF DR. ZABDIEL BOYLSTON" -- AN ANONYMOUS BOSTONIAN: "AN ACCOUNT OF THE SUCCESSES OF SMALLPOX INOCULATION" -- CHAMBERS'S DICTIONARY: "AN ACCOUNT OF INOCULATION" -- QUESTIONS -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 3 Impartiality, Objectivity, and the Press, 1729 -- IN FAVOR OF A PARTIAL AND BIASED PRESS -- THO. PENSHALLOW: "PROHIBITION OF THE COURANT " -- AN ANONYMOUS BOSTONIAN: "THE MOST AUDACIOUS AND BRAZEN-FAC'D LIARS IN THE WORLD" -- ASSEMBLY OF MASSACHUSETTS: "THE SUPPRESSION OF JAMES FRANKLIN" -- WILLIAM BRADFORD: "NO MORE CONTROVERSIAL ARTICLES" -- THOMAS FLEET: "THE TRUTH WILL BE PUBLISHED" -- WILLIAM LIVINGSTON, WITH WILLIAM SMITH JR., AND JOHN MORIN SCOTT: "OF THE USE, ABUSE, AND LIBERTY OF THE PRESS" -- CLEMENTINA RIND: "I WILL NOT PUBLISH ANONYMOUS PIECES". ; IN FAVOR OF AN IMPARTIAL AND OBJECTIVE PRESS -- BENJAMIN FRANKLIN: "THE BUSY-BODY, NO. 8" -- BENJAMIN FRANKLIN: "APOLOGY FOR PRINTERS" -- BENJAMIN FRANKLIN: "TRUTH WILL PREVAIL OVER FALSEHOOD" -- GAMALIEL ROGERS AND DANIEL FOWLE: "PROSPECTUS OF THE INDEPENDENT ADVERTISER" -- WILLIAM LIVINGSTON: "THE DESIGN OF THE INDEPENDENT REFLECTOR" -- DANIEL FOWLE: "REMARKS ON THE ADVANTAGES OF PRINTING" -- AN ATTENTIVE OBSERVER: "PAPERS SHOULD BE OPEN TO ALL PARTIES" -- JAMES RIVINGTON: "A PRINTER SHOULD BE IMPARTIAL" -- THOMAS AND JOHN FLEET: "WE WILL NOT PROSTITUTE OUR PAPER" -- QUESTIONS -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 4 Attakulakula Visits King George II, 1730: Native American-English Relations -- POSITIVE NATIVE AMERICAN-COLONIAL RELATIONS -- OFFICIAL REPORT: "THE SIX NATIONS ALLY WITH ENGLAND" -- AN ANONYMOUS SOUTH CAROLINA WRITER: "THE SPEECH OF CHULOCHCULLAH" -- AN ANONYMOUS GEORGIAN: "KILLING BEAVER IN CHEROKEE TERRITORY" -- GOVERNOR WILLIAM BULL: "AN ACT FOR THE PRESERVATION OF DEER" -- GOVERNOR FRANCIS FAUQUIER: "SETTLERS WANTED IN THE MURDER OF CHEROKEES" -- THE ANDERSCOGGIN NATION: "DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE" -- AN ANONYMOUS REPORT: "NO INDIANS FOR ENGLAND" -- AN ANONYMOUS REPORT: "SIX NATIONS TO REMAIN NEUTRAL" -- NEGATIVE NATIVE AMERICAN-COLONIAL RELATIONS -- CAPE SABLE INDIANS: "SHOW ME WHERE I CAN GO" -- AN ANONYMOUS REPORT: "THE INDIANS MUST BE OUR ALLIES" -- AN ANONYMOUS WRITER: "THE 'GRAND' INDIAN CONGRESS" -- GOVERNOR WILLIAM SHIRLEY: "DECLARATION OF WAR ON NATIVE AMERICANS" -- GOVERNOR WILLIAM SHIRLEY: "A BOUNTY ON PENOBSCOT SCALPS" -- GOVERNOR WILLIAM SHIRLEY: "WE TAKE POSSESSION OF PENOBSCOT LAND" -- QUESTIONS -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 5 The Trial of John Peter Zenger, 1735 -- ANTI-COSBY FACTION -- CATO: "THE IMPORTANCE OF LIBERTY OF THE PRESS" -- AN ANONYMOUS WRITER: "THE LE CÆSAR AFFAIR" -- AN ANONYMOUS WRITER: "HERE TODAY, GONE TOMORROW". ; CATO: "INSTRUMENTS OF PUBLIC RUIN" -- PRO-COSBY FACTION -- AN ANONYMOUS WRITER: "COSBY THE GREAT" -- AN ANONYMOUS WRITER: "ABUSING CATO" -- QUESTIONS -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 6 Women's Rights, 1738 -- IN FAVOR OF INDEPENDENCE AND EQUALITY FOR WOMEN -- AN ANONYMOUS WRITER: "SPECIES, NOT SEX" -- A LADY: "WOMEN IN BUSINESS: BETTER THAN MEN?" -- AN ANONYMOUS WRITER: "THO' HUSBANDS ARE TYRANTS, THEIR WIVES WILL BE FREE" -- JOHN CARTER: "TRIBUTE TO SARAH GODDARD" -- AN ANONYMOUS WRITER: "THE STORY OF HANNAH SNELL" -- WOMEN SHOULD BE LIMITED TO DOMESTICITY AND SERVICE -- AN ANONYMOUS WRITER: "MAXIMS FOR PROMOTING MATRIMONIAL HAPPINESS" -- AN ANONYMOUS WRITER: "THE LIKELIEST WAY TO OBTAIN A GOOD HUSBAND" -- OBITUARY: "MRS. REBECCAH FISK" -- AN ANONYMOUS WRITER WITH AN EDITORIAL NOTE BY THOMAS FLEET: "AN OBLIGING WIFE" -- AN ANONYMOUS WRITER: "A POOR AND UNHAPPY RASCAL" -- QUESTIONS -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 7 The Stono Rebellion, 1739 -- ADVOCATING HARSH TREATMENT OF SLAVES -- AN ANONYMOUS REPORT: "A NEW YORK SLAVE REVOLT" -- AN ANONYMOUS WRITER: "AN AVERTED UPRISING" -- AN ANONYMOUS WRITER: "WEST INDIAN SLAVE REVOLT" -- GOVERNOR JAMES DE LANCEY: "SLAVE ANTI-ASSEMBLY BILL" -- MASSACHUSETTS ASSEMBLY: "THE RIGHT TO DESTROY SLAVES" -- AN ANONYMOUS WRITER: "DISORDERS COMMITTED BY NEGROES" -- AN ANONYMOUS REPORT: "MURDER ON LONG ISLAND" -- AN ANONYMOUS REPORT: "ARSENIC AND CHOCOLATE" -- AN ANONYMOUS WRITER: "THE MURDER OF JOHN CEDMAN" -- AN ANONYMOUS REPORT: "MURDER IN THE WOODS" -- ADVOCATING EQUAL TREATMENT FOR SLAVES -- AN ANONYMOUS REPORT: "SLAVES ACQUITTED" -- AN ANONYMOUS REPORT: "CHARGED WITH SLAVE MURDER" -- A FREE AMERICAN: "A SERMON ON THE CAUSE OF THE AFRICAN SLAVES" -- AN ANONYMOUS WRITER: "PUNISH THE MASTER" -- THE POET'S CORNER: "TAKEN FROM THE LYBIAN SHORES" -- QUESTIONS -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 8 The Great Awakening and George Whitefield, 1739-1745. ; ANTI-WHITEFIELD AND REVIVALISM -- AN UNKNOWN LONDON WRITER: "SILENCING WHITEFIELD" -- AN ANONYMOUS WRITER: "ENTHUSIASTICK RAVINGS" -- AN ANONYMOUS WRITER: "THE DANGERS OF WHITEFIELD'S PREACHING" -- THOMAS FLEET: "THE CHECKLEY MEETING-HOUSE ACCIDENT" -- NATH. BELLS AND RUSTICUS: "NOT UNDER GOD" -- AN ANONYMOUS WRITER: "WHITEFIELD, GET YOU GONE" -- AN ANONYMOUS WRITER: "AN ATTACK ON ITINERANTS" -- PRO-WHITEFIELD AND REVIVALISM -- JUVENTUS: "COMMISSIONED FROM ON HIGH" -- AN ANONYMOUS WRITER: "AGAINST BALLS AND PUBLIC DANCING" -- WILLIAM SEWARD: "THOUSANDS ATTEND WHITEFIELD SERMONS" -- WILLIAM SEWARD: "THE FAREWELL SERMON" -- AN ANONYMOUS WRITER: "GROWING PIETY AND DEVOTION" -- AN ANONYMOUS WRITER: "A RESPONSE TO MR. FLEET" -- AN ANONYMOUS REPORT: "THE FUNERAL OF GEORGE WHITEFIELD" -- QUESTIONS -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 9 Religious Divisions, 1740-1745 -- FOR RELIGIOUS UNION AND AGAINST NEW RELIGIOUS SECTS -- P.N.C.: "A PROPOSAL FOR A UNION OF DENOMINATIONS" -- TWO ANONYMOUS WRITERS: "AN INSTRUMENT OF DIVISIONS" -- NATHANAEL HENCHMAN: "SEEDS OF SEPARATION" -- THOMAS PRINCE: "A CALL FOR A MEETING" -- AN ANONYMOUS WRITER: "METHODISTS AND THE SCARLET WHORE" -- AN ANONYMOUS REPORT: "A PLOT AGAINST SOUTH CAROLINA" -- AN ANONYMOUS REPORT: "AN ATTACK ON METHODISTS" -- AN ANONYMOUS REPORT: "DR. WHIMWHAM" -- AN ANONYMOUS REPORT: "LOST WITS" -- IN SUPPORT OF DENOMINATIONS AND RELIGIOUS SECTS -- AN ANONYMOUS WRITER: "ONE COMMUNION NOT ADAPTED TO HUMAN NATURE" -- AN ANONYMOUS WRITER: "THE RIGHT TO INTERPRET SCRIPTURE" -- AN ANONYMOUS WRITER: "AN ATTACK ON THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND" -- AN ANONYMOUS WRITER: "THE CHARACTER OF METHODISTS" -- AN ANONYMOUS WRITER: "THE ALTERATION OF THE FACE OF RELIGION" -- AN ANONYMOUS WRITER: "OF MANY PERSUASIONS BUT STILL IN UNITY" -- QUESTIONS -- CHAPTER 10 Massachusetts Legalizes Lotteries, 1744 -- PRO-LOTTERY. ; AN OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: "A LOTTERY FOR THE ACADEMY OF PHILADELPHIA" -- AN ANONYMOUS REPORT: "TICKETS STILL AVAILABLE FOR NEW JERSEY LOTTERY" -- AN ANONYMOUS WRITER: "MONEY FOR NOVA SCOTIA" -- AN ANONYMOUS REPORT: "A LOTTERY TO REDUCE THE NATIONAL DEBT" -- ANTI-LOTTERY -- THOMAS FLEET: "THE MOST EXTENSIVELY MISCHIEVOUS SORT OF A GAME" -- AN ANONYMOUS FATHER: "BEWITCHING DICE" -- AN ANONYMOUS WRITER: "THE UNPROFITABLE FRATERNITY OF GAMESTERS" -- PUBLIC NOTICE: "AN ORDER TO DISCONTINUE GAMING" -- QUESTIONS -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 11 Medical Discoveries and the Amazing "Chinese Stones," 1745 -- MEDICAL QUACKERY -- ANONYMOUS REPORTS: "THE AMAZING CHINESE STONES" -- AN ANONYMOUS REPORT: "THE BLIND OCCULIST" -- BISHOP GEORGE BERKELEY: "TREATISE ON TAR WATER" -- REFUTING MEDICAL QUACKERY/PROMOTING MEDICAL DISCOVERIES -- ACIDUS: "A REFUTATION OF CHINESE STONES" -- AN ANONYMOUS REPORT: "SUCCESSFUL CATARACT REMOVAL" -- AN ANONYMOUS WRITER: "THE DANGERS OF SNUFF" -- DR. BENJAMIN RUSH: "OBSERVATIONS ON THE CAUSE AND CURE OF THE HIVES" -- AN ANONYMOUS REPORT: "SUCCESSFUL SURGERY FOR STONES" -- QUESTIONS -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 12 Paper Money and the Currency Act, 1751 -- OPPOSING PAPER MONEY -- AN ANONYMOUS WRITER: "AGAINST PAPER MONEY" -- WILLIAM LIVINGSTON: "THE PROBLEM WITH BILLS OF CREDIT" -- A VIRGINIAN: "THE MANIFOLD EVILS OF PAPER MONEY" -- IN FAVOR OF PAPER MONEY -- BENJAMIN FRANKLIN: "THE BUSY-BODY, NO. 8" -- BENJAMIN FRANKLIN: "FIXING VALUE TO PAPER MONEY" -- MASSACHUSETTS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES: "REACTION TO A VETO OF BILLS OF CREDIT" -- RO. C. NICHOLAS: "REPLY TO A VIRGINIAN ON THE SUBJECT OF PAPER MONEY" -- QUESTIONS -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 13 The New York Public Education Controversy, 1753-1755 -- AGAINST ESTABLISHING A CHURCH-AFFILIATED COLLEGE -- WILLIAM LIVINGSTON: "THE PROPOSED COLLEGE FOR NEW YORK". ; WILLIAM LIVINGSTON: "WHY MUST A COLLEGE BE AFFILIATED WITH A RELIGIOUS GROUP?".
• Titolo autorizzato: Debating the issues in colonial newspapers
• ISBN: 979-84-00-63841-1; 1-280-70836-0; 9786610708369; 0-313-00726-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910828593003321
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