Show conception of uncle sam goes back bacic to 1812 the creator of 0 uncle sam earn la Is unknown the character first drat appeared in publications during curing the war of 1812 the type la Is a genial yankee trader of the time the board the lie lint and the cut of the clothes are of that period tiie enri earliest lest recorded use of the name undo uncle sam for the united states government pears to be in the tro troy y N r Y post of september 7 1813 the tha post used it in a phrase which already lind some boino popular curr currency Y and explained that the ilia lettera letter U S od on the government wagons etc are supposed sur posed to have given rise to IL it at fir first t the nickname was employed 1 I only in the antiwar anti antl war papers and lu in n derl derisory sory sense the cartoon c conception of sam did not arrive until a R little t tia later there seems to bo be no lie round around for a popular story ascribing the origin to uncle sam mill wilson a government inspector la in the war of |