Show conception of uncle sam saints goes back to 1812 the creaton of untie uncle sam Is unknown the character first appeared in publications during the war ot of 1812 the type Is r genial yankee trader of the time the beard the hat and the cut of the clothes are of that period the earliest recorded use of the name uncle sam for the united states government pears to be in the troy CN N y post of september 7 1813 the post used it in a phrase which bich already had some popular currency and explained that the letters U S on the government wagons etc are supposed to have given rise to tt it at first the nickname was employed only in the antl anti and in a derl derisory sory sense the cartoon conception of uncle sam did not arrive until a little later there seems to be no ground for a popular story ascribing the origin to uncle sam Wll sn a government inspector in the war of 1812 |