“We are informed”
Date
2-22-1812
Newspaper
Carolina Federal Republican
Page and Column
Page 3, Column 1
Newspaper Location
New Bern, North Carolina
Serial Number
809
Abstract
Report from the Raleigh Star that John C. Edwards account was fictional.
Transcript
We are informed (says the Star) by the Post Master & by other respectable citizens of Asheville, that the communication published in our page 7, giving an account of the Earthquake in Buncombe, is a grow misrepresentation, and that no such man as 'John C. Edwards' (a name signed to the piece) was ever known in that place. The same person last week passed off a most barefaced hoax upon the Register, making at a single dash of the pen, a widow and thirteen orphans by throwing a fat Taylor on his belly in the Buncombe Earthquake, and making also a volcano occasion the overflow of 200 acres of rich bottom land, to the great injury of the owners!!--If this scribler wishes to pass for a wit, he will find his claim disallowed by the public. The attempt to lessen the credit of vehicles of public information will not be passed over with indulgence.
Recommended Citation
"“We are informed”" (1812). New Madrid Compendium Far-Field Database. 793.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/cas-ceri-new-madrid-compendium/793
