Note 26 — UNCLE SAM. BY ALBERT MATTHEWS.
Reading edition
Salem Gazette, May 3, 1814 (p. 2-4). In the Salem Gazette of November 25, 1813, appeared a paragraph headed "Braggardism! Wilkinson's Glorious Expedition to Canada!" (p. 2-2). The unsuccessful expedition into Canada gave rise to an epigram printed in the Columbian Centinel of December 11, 1813:
"Gen. Wilkinson's late Expedition.
WITH Conquest how his bosom burn'd!— He went—he saw—and then—return'd."