NTRP: Colonies Lose a Good Thing

[Henry Musikar]

"Not everyone shared the patriots' joy and optimism for the new nation's
future, however. Three days before the public reading, Salem Tory William
Pynchon had gotten a glimpse of the text of the Declaration and groused in
his journal that the colonies had blown a good thing. 

"We have had our ages of gold and silver, but, not contented, we rejected
both, and lost them, and with them our copper and most of our brass and
iron," he lamented.

Pynchon's pastor at St. Peter's Anglican church, William McGilchrest,
expressed his displeasure by ignoring a directive from the Continental
Congress that the Declaration of Independence should be read from every
pulpit."

http://www.salemnews.com/puopinion/local_story_187003603.html 

Henry Mu
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