"James Otis wrote a furious reply to Howard’s second pamphlet, in which he fumed at the cosmopolitanism of Newport [RI] and contrasted it with the purely English character of the rest of New England. ‘Such,’ he wrote of Newport, ‘is the little, dirty, drinking, drabbing, contaminated knot of thieves, beggars, and transports… collected from the four winds of the earth, and made up of Turks, Jews, and other infidels, with a few renegado Christians and Catholics.’ Here can be glimpsed the attitude that was later to damn as un-American any opposition to the opposition to Britain."
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William Nelson, American Tory, p. 12
this made me giggle because it’s true today.
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