"A Genuine Republican": Benjamin Franklin Bache's Remarks (1797), the Federalists, and Republican Civic Humanism
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George Washington was perhaps in a more petulant mood than usual when he wrote of Benjamin Franklin Bache, Benjamin Franklin's grandson, in 1797: "This man has celebrity in a certain way, for his calumnies are to be exceeded only by his impudence, and both stand unrivalled." The ordinarily reserved ex-president had similarly commented four years earlier that the "publica-tions" in Philip Freneau's National Gazette and Bache's daily newspaper, the Philadelphia General Advertiser, founded in 1790, which added the noun Aurora to its title on November 8, 1794, were "outrages on common decency."
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