[43] _Columbian Centinel_, July 9, 1814, p. 1-5. [44] _Bee_ (Hudson), July 12, 1814, p. 3-3. [45] _Massachusetts Spy_, July 20, 1814, p. 3-2. It is curious to see how history repeats itself. Between 1898 and his death, President McKinley was sometimes alluded to as "William I." In the _Boston Herald_ of January 28, 1907, we read of "Kaiser Theodore," and in the same paper of November 11, 1907, of "Theodore I." Just as Monroe was alluded to in 1814 as "the heir apparent," so now the same term is applied to Secretary Taft. See _Nation_, August 22, 1907, LXXXV, 153; _Boston Herald_, November 6, 1907, p. 6-5; _Boston Evening Transcript_, December 2, 1907; _Boston Herald_, March 3, 1908, p. 6-3. Even the word "imperial" is not new to our politics. In the _New York Herald_ of May 5, 1813, it was satirically said that "the _bewilderification_ of the enemy, on beholding our imperial standard, baffles all description" (p. 2-4). Two examples of the spreadeagleism of the times will prove amusing. The following toast was given at Waterville, Maine, on July 4, 1815: "_The Eagle of the United States_--'May she extend her wings from the _Atlantic_ to the _Pacific_; and fixing her talons on the _Isthmus of Darien_, stretch with her beak to the _Northern Pole_'" (_Salem Gazette_, July 18, 1815, p. 4-1). Capt. Ross Bird of the United States Army having been placed under arrest and bereft of his sword, he sent in his resignation, in part as follows: "In leaving the service, I am not abandoning the cause of republicanism, but yet hope to brandish the glittering steel in the field, and carve my way to a name which shall prove my country's neglect; and when this mortal part shall be closetted in the dust, and the soul shall wing its flight for the regions above, in passing by the palefaced moon, I shall hang my hat upon brilliant Mars, and make a report to each superlative star--and arriving at the portals of Heaven's high Chancery, shall demand of the attending Angel to be ushered into the presence of Washington" (_New York Herald_, November 10, 1813, p. 1-3). [46] _New York Herald_, July 13, 1814, p. 1-1. [47] Two may be specified. The following is taken from the _New York Herald_ of April 10, 1813: "_Fracas at Albany._--By the passengers in the Steam Boat we are informed, that a fracas took place in Albany last Wednesday [April 7], between Col. Peter B. Porter and John Lovett, Esq., occasioned by some publications which have been made relative to the affair between Col. S. Van Rensselaer and Col. Porter. It is said Col. Porter, after some high words had passed, attacked Mr. Lovett with a cane, on which Mr. Lovett closed in with him and was like to demolish him, when some of the by-standers interfered and put an end to the contest" (p. 3-2). The other case, curiously enough, concerns a man of whom we shall hear later in connection with the alleged origin of Uncle Sam. In the _Albany Gazette_ of September 20, 1813, appeared this (p. 3-4):