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William Duane

William Duane

American journalist and publisherWikipedia

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Oct 3, 2026

speaker_0NARRATOR
44:47
Botch dies awaiting trial, and his widow Margaret, 23 years old with four children, does not close the Aurora.
speaker_0NARRATOR
44:54
She puts out the next issue, and the issue after that, and hires William Duane, and when Duane is prosecuted, he keeps printing.
speaker_0NARRATOR
45:02
and when he is beaten by a mob of young federalists in the paper's own courtyard he keeps printing and the government that meant to call the opposition press watches it multiply instead because every prosecution is an advertisement and by eighteen hundred there are more republican papers than existed when the act passed the club creates what it strikes The farm women of the Lehigh Valley pour their hot water, and the country, delighted, names the rising the hot water war, and mockery does to the window tax what muskets never could.
speaker_0NARRATOR
45:37
Vermont sends the government its answer in the person of Matthew Lyon, and Martin has been saving him, because Lyon is the whole second column in one man, born in Ireland.
Jay CostHOST
33:55
So like a really good example of this is, actually I've just been researching this.
Jay CostHOST
34:00
One of the things about the 1790s is there's this emergence of this newspaper, radical right Republican newspaper group that are led by all of these immigrants like William Duane, who is the editor of the Philadelphia Aurora.
Jay CostHOST
34:16
And, you know, this fed the Federalist anxiety about, oh, my goodness, like these radical foreigners.
Jay CostHOST
34:25
Well, when Jefferson gets in charge, William Duane goes to Jefferson and says, hey, you know, I would love some government printing contracts.
Jay CostHOST
34:33
Jefferson turns him down.
Jay CostHOST
34:36
Like the newspaper that becomes the voice of republicanism is not Dwayne's Aurora.
Dan HollawayHOST
55:55
The party that had George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and John Marshall finished as a national force inside a decade and never recovered from the Hartford Convention.
Dan HollawayHOST
56:06
Adams himself said afterward that one of the men most responsible for his defeat was William Duane, an immigrant newspaper editor his own administration had pr-prosecuted.
Dan HollawayHOST
56:17
And the fourteen-year rule, Jefferson asked Congress to revisit the naturalization law in his first annual message in December of eighteen oh one.
Dan HollawayHOST
56:24
Listen to how he asks, "Shall we refuse to the unhappy fugitives from distress that hospitality which the savages of the wilderness extended to our fathers arriving in this land? Shall oppressed humanity find no asylum on this globe?" Congress repealed it on April fourteenth, eighteen oh two and restored five years, which is still the law today, by the way, at Title Eight, Section Fourteen, uh, Twenty-seven.

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