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'He was attempting to flirt with a young lady who had no interest in him,' Eleazer Carter told The Associated Press.

HUFFPOST HILL - OCTOBER 8TH, 2010 The Huffington Post News Team 2010

"He was attempting to flirt with a young lady who had no interest in him," Eleazer Carter told The Associated Press.

Alvin Greene Was Just Trying To 'Flirt' When He Allegedly Showed Pornography To College Girl The Huffington Post News Team 2010

Like the response of Eleazer Oswald to efforts to prevent him from printing the work of authors who found fault with the Constitution, it suggested that liberty of the press was becoming something more than what it had been in the English past, a freedom from “prior restraint” by government censors.

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God save us, Eleazer Oswald commented in his Independent Gazetteer, “if these be the dawnings of the new federal government.”

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The burst of newspaper criticisms had not yet begun—Knox wrote on the very day that, in Philadelphia, Eleazer Oswald printed the address of the seceding members of the Pennsylvania Assembly in his Gazetteer—so Knox had only good news to report.

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Charles Turner, Martin Kingsley, Samuel Willard, and William Symmes, all of whom spoke against parts of the Constitution, were Harvard graduates.5 Others, like Eleazer Peirce, learned from the school of experience.

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The “Dissent” was also printed as a broadside by Eleazer Oswald.

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Five years later, those who tried to keep criticisms of the Constitution out of the press met their match in Eleazer Oswald.

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On June 17, the day after Eleazer Oswald delivered the letters from Mason, Grayson, and Henry, John Lamb forwarded them “by a special messenger” to Governor George Clinton in Poughkeepsie, where the New York convention was gathering.

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Responsibility for that development rested in no small part with Eleazer Oswald and a rash of writers whose essays he and a handful of other newspaper editors were willing to publish.

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