Show conception of uncle sam goes buck back to 1812 the crenton of uncle sam Is unknown the character first appeared in publications during tho the war of 1812 the tyre tyle Is c genial yankee of tho the time the beard the lint hat and the cut of the clothes ure are of that period the eari earilean leAt recorded use of tho the name uncle sam for the united states government pears to be in the tro troy y N Y post of september 7 1813 the post used it in a phrase which already lind some soine popular currency and explained that tho the letters U S on tho the government wagons etc are supposed to have given rise to it at first tho the nickname was employed only in the antiwar anti war papers and in a derl derisory sory sense the cartoon conception ion of uncle sam did not arrive until a little later there seems brems to be no ground for a popular story ascribing the origin to uncle sam barn wilson a government inspector in the war of 1812 |