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1775 Revolutionary War Newspaper (SOLD) |
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[Revolutionary War]. Newspaper. Pennsylvania Evening Post. Philadelphia: Benjamin Towne, May 13, 1775. 4pp.
Inventory# 20712 SOLD
Printed six weeks after Lexington and Concord, this issue of the Pennsylvania Evening Post has interesting content, including:
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News of the gathering of delegates for the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia. “On Wednesday Last the Eastern Delegates arrived in this city.”
(p. 3, col. 2).
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An excerpt from the Public Ledger (a British newspaper) on The House of Lords discussing the Fishery bill and the War. “The impracticality of succeeding in the war was, in the learned Lords’ opinion, deducible, from the situation of this learned Lord’s opinion, from the situation of this country compared with that of the colonies. Was a continent of fifteen hundred miles extent, and inhabited by three millions of people, was this to be subdued by a small army?” (p. 1, col. 1)
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Nine resolutions on conciliation with American colonies debated by the British House of Commons. “1. That the colonies and plantations in North-America, consisting of fourteen separate governments, and containing two millions of free inhabitants, have not had the liberty and privilege of electing and sending knights, citizens and burgesses to represent them in parliament. Passed in the negative, ayes 78, noes 270.” (p. 3, col. 1).
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The death of Thomas Penn is reported and his life discussed. “He had the principal direction of the affairs of this government for half a century, and saw such an increase of population arts and improvements in it, as, during the like period, perhaps no man before him ever beheld in a country of his own. He rejoiced at the fight, was a kind landlord, and gave a liberal, often a magnificent, encouragement to our various public institutions.” (p. 3, col. 2).
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