[59] Quoted in the _Portsmouth Oracle_, May 21, 1814, p. 2-5. The story of the wagon which started with forty bushels of corn, related by Timothy Pickering, was reprinted in the _Massachusetts Spy_ of May 25, 1814, p. 3-3, but "Uncle Sam" is omitted. [60] Quoted in the _Columbian Centinel_, June 29, 1814, p. 2-1. [61] Quoted in the _New York Herald_, November 16, 1814, p. 3-4. [62] The story was reprinted in the _New York Herald_ of December 7, 1814, p. 2-3. [63] Quoted in the _New York Herald_, December 21, 1814, p. 3-5. [64] The extract was reprinted in the _Portsmouth Oracle_ of January 28, 1815, p. 3-2; and in the _Connecticut Courant_ of February 7, 1815, p. 3-1. [65] Quoted in the _Salem Gazette_, January 21, 1815, p. 3-1; _Portsmouth Oracle_, February 4, p. 3-1; _Connecticut Courant_, February 7, p. 1-3. [66] Supplement to _Niles' Register_, VII, 187. That volume ended with the issue of February 25, 1815. [67] Supplement to _Niles' Register_, IX, 95. That volume ended with the issue of February 24, 1816. The _Albany Register_ of December 6, 1814, advertised a play, farce, and "Naval Pillar" to take place at the theatre the following evening "in honor of the memorable Naval Conflict on Lake Champlain, fought on the glorious Eleventh of September" (p. 3-4). The song in the text may have been written for that occasion, though it is not mentioned in the advertisement. [68] See p. 33, above. [69] There are constant allusions in the newspapers to Greenbush. The _Connecticut Courant_ of September 29, 1812, printed an extract dated Pittsfield, September 17: "_Democratic Economy._--Within a few days past, several waggon loads of _Vinegar_ and _Molasses_ have passed through this village, on the way from Boston to Greenbush, near Albany. These articles were purchased at Boston for the use of the troops at Greenbush. The vinegar cost the government Five Dollars per barrel, in Boston; and according to the statement of the teamsters, the expence of transportation would be much more than the first cost. Now we are told, and we believe correctly, that vinegar can be purchased in Albany at less than four dollars per barrel. And we presume that molasses can be bought in Albany and New-York, as cheap as in Boston.--Why, then, this enormous expence of transportation!--So goes the people's money!" (p. 2-5).