lik^HO, The. (Richard Alsop, Lemuel Hopkins, Theodore D wight, etc.)
8°, pp. XV, 331. No place, 1807.
See sketch of Richard Alsop, p. 0.
The series of papers entitled " The Echo," was originally published in Hartford, in the
American Mercury, In 1791. It has its title " fVom the last of these productions, which
are parodies or exaggerations of newspaper narratives, popular addresses, goyernors*
speeches and proclamations of the time, which offered numerous specimens with abun-
dant provocation for the witty ti'eatment which they secured at the hands of the Hartford
wits."

Duycktnck, ft*om whom the above Is quoted, says: '**The Echo' caught the noise,
Airy and rhodomontade of orators and the press, and resounded them in louder measure.
If a penny-a-liner grew more maudlin and drunken in his style than usual; if an office-
holder played his * fantastic tricks,' a politician vapored, or a scientific pretender bored
the public with his ignorance, or a French democratic procession moved at the heels of
Genet, it was sure to be heard of from the banks of the Connecticut. Metaphors with poli-
tics ran high. As the Conservative party of the country, the Federalists had an advantage,
at least in the assumption of authority in the matter, for the force and talent employed
being equal, the entrenched party will always laugh loudest. What began in * The Echo '
with the mirthfhl travesty of a newspaper article, soon rose to the bitter sarcasm of polit-
ical controversy. The democracy of the day supi^Iied the motive. In some of the eccen*
tricitles of John Hancock there was enough ready material for amusement, while the
downright western humour of Brackenrldge offered more resistance to the treatment.
