NTRP: Colonies Lose a Good Thing

[rich]

i have a picture of william pynchon at my desk, staring at me as if to
say, damn straight!

rich

On 7/6/09, Henry Musikar <scuffling at gmail.com> wrote:
> "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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