George J. Myers, Jr. schrieb:
> I would like to take a minute to explain another side of the preservation of
> Governors Island, over which the Statue of Liberty looks over to the East.
>
> On the south of the island are two monuments, blocks on which are bronze
> replicas of a swivel gun. The one I would like to discuss is the one to Peter
> Zenger, who arrived from the "Palantine" in what would become Germany at the
> age of ten.
>
> At the St. Pauls Church in Eastchester, NY, part of cemetery of which is
> actually inside the limits of the City of New York, is a monument to "Freedom
> of the Press" and administered by the National Parks Service. The story is
> that the bell in the tower is the "sister" bell of the Liberty Bell in
> Philadelphia, PA, cast at the same time.
>
> On the "Village Green" in front of the church was held a "contested election"
> by Peter Zenger in his paper, the second only to the official one in New
> York. In this paper Peter Zenger wrote a story about the Governor of New
> York, for which he was tried for libel and slander. Defended by a famous
> lawyer, Alexander Hamilton (not the later editor of an NY newspaper, and
> George Washington's, "son he never had") the jury weighed "law" and "fact"
> and this became an important example of "jury nullification," in that the law
> was not applied correctly and Peter Zenger was found "not guilty."
>
> Not only is Governors Island important to New York history as a residence of
> New York governors, the place where Gorbachev first met Reagan, available for
> $1,

what is? the island cost $1 or...?

 containing Fort William across from Fort Clinton on the Island of
> Manhattan, containing Fort Jay, built by Columbia University students,

recently? as in post-woodstock, or...?

 but
> important to the judicial history of human rights in jury trials in that
> Peter Zenger grew up for a while there.
>
> Please lend your support to the acquisition of this important historical site
> and its preservation.

the island or the swivel gun?
        how? who do we contact?

geoff carver
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