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Hudson-Fulton
Celebration Commission
NO. 26
FLOAT-TRIAL OF JOHN PETER ZENGER
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1609
HUDSON FULTON
CELEBRATION
1609
1807
1909
OFFICIAL SOUVENIR.
TRIAL OF JOHN PETER ZENGER (1734)—
John Peter Zenger edited a little paper called the
Weekly Journal, in which he freely criticized the arbi-
trary acts of the royal government. In 1735 he was
tried for libel, but acquitted in a verdict which is.com-
monly said to have been the establishment of the princi-
ple of the free press.
M.
REDFIELD BROTHERS, INC., AUTHORIZED PUBLISHERS, 311 WEST 43RD ST NEW YORK CITY.
CUBA, CANADA
AND MEXICO.
FOREIGN TWO
CENTS.
THIS SIDE FOR ADDRESS ONLY.
