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Early talk on an independent America...
Early talk on an independent America...
Item # 703295
March 08, 1775
THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE, Philadelphia, March 8, 1775 This is the newspaper that ten years previous was owned and printed by Ben Franklin, his name appearing in the imprint up through 1765.
This issue has various items that reflect the growing tensions between England and America. Part of a very lengthy page 2 letter includes: "...That we aim at an independently, replete with the most distressing calamities, destructive mischiefs and aggravated miseries; and that the darling object of our wishes is an independent republic..." as well as: "...it is asserted, that the people in America can have no idea of the various maneuvers, evolutions, marchings, countermarching, advancing, retreating, breaking, rallying, etc. which are practiced in the army, and therefore they will be astonished, confounded, and put to flight by attacks from every quarter...".
Included as well is the single sheet "Postscript" issue of the same date, with its own masthead.
Six pages in total, irregular at the margins, good condition.
Category: Revolutionary War
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