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Great Britain-based William Cobbett is known primarily for his activities as a radical publisher and political activist in England during the first three decades of the nineteenth century who defended rights of the poor and denounced Great Britain's corrupt, aristocratic governing circles. During the 1790s, however, as an English expatriate newspaper editor in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Cobbett upheld reactionary ideas and shuddered at the U.S. democratizing trends. His daily newspaper Porcupine's Gazette, initiated in March 1797, adopted a spiritedly ultraconservative stance, protesting extremes to which the raw republic carried individual freedom. |
