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Excerpt from Random Recollections of Albany: From 1800 to 1808
Yankees were creeping in. Every day added to their number; and the unhallowed hand of innova tion was seen pointing its impertinent finger at the cherished habits and venerated customs of the an cient burgers. These meddling eastern Saxons at length obtained a majority in the city councils; and then came an order, with a lzcmdsaw, to cut off those spouts. Nothing could exceed the conster nation of the aforesaid burgers, upon the announce ment of this order. Had it been a decree abolish ing their mother tongue, it could hardly have excited greater astonishment, or greater indigna tion. What I said they, are our own spouts, then, to be measured and graduated by a corpora tion standard! Are they to be cut off or fore shortened, without our knowledge or consent! But the Dutch still retained the obstinacy, if not the valor, of their ancestors. They rallied their for ces and at the next election, the principal author of the obnoxious order (my old friend Elkanah Wat sonl), was elected a constable of the ward in which'he.
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