News-Boy's Address

[Concord, N.H.]: New Hampshire Patriot, 1810. Good.. Broadside, 10.75 x 9 inches; framed to 18 x 14 inches. Old folds, slight separation at folds, light toning and soiling. Older frame, light wear. Rare and early New Hampshire carrier's address for the patrons of the New Hampshire Patriot of Concord. The Patriot started off as the American Patriot in 1808 before being renamed the New Hampshire Patriot in 1809, which it maintained until 1819. This is, thus one of the first carrier's addresses issued by the paper. Most of the content focuses on the Napoleonic Wars in Europe, contrasting them with domestic prosperity: "America, that favor'd land, / Beyond the despot's stern command-- / Beyond control of Gallic tyrant, / And to no British Jackson pliant -- / Learns hence to prize her situation / 'Bove Europe's scenes of devastation. / Here flourish arts--industry thrives, / And man in independence lives: / There science droops mid war's alarms, Whose din every power disarms. / Here towns arise and seaports grow; / There towers are raz'd, cities laid low." It wouldn't be long before America was indeed thrown into conflict with Europe in the War of 1812. Unrecorded in OCLC, and not in McDonald's A Checklist of American Newspaper Carriers' Addresses 1720-1820 (whose first holding for the New Hampshire Patriot appears the next year). (Inventory #: 5902)