Sunday, February 11, 2018
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Reprinted from Albert H. Smyth, ed., The Writings of Benjamin Franklin … (10 vols., New York, 1905–07), v, 405–6.7
I happen to know more than most people do about the gunpowdder industry during and after the revolutionary war. But I had forgotten Ben Franklin knew Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, and encouraged him to move to america. The dupont company prospered, became a major munitions manufacturer known as the "merchants of death". It was found to have monopolized the industry in restraint of trade, and was busted up into hercules, atlas and dupont, during teddy roosevelt.
Koppel's 2nd Amendment amicus brief to the Supreme Court discusses whether there is a right to commerce in arms, and what the founders thought.
He mentions Franklin's efforts to promote the gunpowder industry.
There's a potential law review article there for someone. i am grateful to professor paul durbin for allowing me to spend his research funds on reading about ps the 1st. Pierre Samuel the second founded General Motors, and Pierre Samuel "Pete" IV was governor of delaware when I met him circa 1976.
I happen to know more than most people do about the gunpowdder industry during and after the revolutionary war. But I had forgotten Ben Franklin knew Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, and encouraged him to move to america. The dupont company prospered, became a major munitions manufacturer known as the "merchants of death". It was found to have monopolized the industry in restraint of trade, and was busted up into hercules, atlas and dupont, during teddy roosevelt.
Koppel's 2nd Amendment amicus brief to the Supreme Court discusses whether there is a right to commerce in arms, and what the founders thought.
He mentions Franklin's efforts to promote the gunpowder industry.
There's a potential law review article there for someone. i am grateful to professor paul durbin for allowing me to spend his research funds on reading about ps the 1st. Pierre Samuel the second founded General Motors, and Pierre Samuel "Pete" IV was governor of delaware when I met him circa 1976.
London, June 15, 1772.
Dear Sir,
I am much obliged to you for introducing me to the Knowledge of Mr. le Marquis d’Ecrammeville, who appears a very amiable Man, with an excellent Understanding.
Abraham Mansword’s Advice to his Countrymen is very good. I hope they will have more of it.8
Pray inform me by a Line, whether M. Le Roy has paid for the Ephemerides in my Behalf.9 If not, I will upon Sight discharge the amount, by paying your Draft upon me. And I request they may be continually sent me as long as you are concern’d in them.
Go on to do good with your inlighten’d Pen, and by instructing them and inciting them to Virtue deserve well of Mankind and of their common Father. With sincere and great Esteem, I am, my Dear Friend, Yours most affectionately,
B Franklin.
7. The letter, according to Smyth, was in the possession of Colonel H. A. DuPont; but it has not been located in either the Winterthur or Eleutherian Mills collections.
8. The advice was revolutionary. Abraham Mansword was the nom de plume of Barbeu-Dubourg, who ostensibly translated two letters from a Philadelphian in the Pa. Chron. but actually composed them himself. The first discussed the fundamental laws, the second the constitution, that the American colonies should adopt when they became a federal republic. Ephémérides du citoyen, ou bibliothèque raisonnée des sciences morales et politiques, [v] (1771), tome 11, 76–112; tome 12, 7–45. These letters are described and summarized by Alfred O. Aldridge, who resurrected them from obscurity, in “Jacques Barbeu-Dubourg, a French Disciple of Benjamin Franklin,” APS Proc., xcv (1951), 366, 369–75. Dubourg’s assumption of impending American independence, as Aldridge points out, was remarkable in 1771; equally remarkable was bf’s attitude toward it.
9. See Barbeu-Dubourg to bf above, May 31, and bf to du Pont de Nemours below, Aug. 12.
The letter goes on to say that a young man named Dupont, and the Abbé Baudeau are the priucipal apostles of the school. This M. Dupont de Nemours was, through his life, Franklin's intimate friend, and the Abbe Baudeau appears again and again in the correspondence. He visited Franklin in 1772.
Silence Dogood
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Mrs. Silence Dogood was a pen name used by Benjamin Franklin to get his work published in the New-England Courant, a newspaper founded and published by his brother James Franklin. This was after Benjamin Franklin was denied several times when he tried to publish letters under his own name in the Courant. The 14 Mrs. Silence Dogood letters were first printed in 1722.
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