Date: May 17, 1775 ”Thus a War has begun, which I have frequently said to you and others, would if not timely prevented, overturn the British Empire, but I hope after a full conviction both of our Ability and resolution to Maintain our rights, Britain will act with that Wisdom which it is so absolutely […]
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Date: August 24, 1774 “Our enemies, we know, will use every artifice that hell can suggest and human power can execute to enslave us; but we are determined not to submit. We choose to effect our salvation from bondage by policy, rather than by arms; considering that the blood of free men who fight for […]
Date: May 26, 1775 “I see more and more the necessity of establishing a civil government here, and such a government as shall be sufficient to control the military forces, not only of this colony, but also such as shall be sent to us from the other colonies. The continent must strengthen and support with […]
Date: December 21, 1773 “I fear that unless a speedy alteration is made in the system of American policy, a few years will render us as indifferent to the interests of the mother-country as to that of any other State in Europe. However, as it is my firm opinion that a connection upon constitutional principles […]
Author: Paskalos, pseudonym Date: December 29, 1766 “For altho’ you declare you are no hireling; yet you must expect to receive scorn and abhorrence for your wages.” Source: Boston Gazette
Author: A True Patriot, pseudonym Date: February 29, 1768 “[M]en totally abandoned to Wickedness can never merit our Regard, be their Stations ever so high. ‘If such Men are by God appointed, The Devil may be the Lord’s anointed.’” Source: Boston Gazette
Author: Mucius Scaevola, a pseudonym Date: November 14, 1771 “A ruler, independent of the people, is a monster in government; and such a one is Mr. Hutchinson; and such would George the third be, if he should be rendered independent on the people of Great-Britain.” Source: Massachusetts Spy
Author: Philo Physic, a pseudonym Date: June 8, 1767 “[D]etached sentences from them [academic authorities], will never support irrational practice: They always expect that their general observations should be applied with judgment, and proper regard to particular circumstances.” Source: Boston Gazette
Author: Anonymous Date: August 4, 1766 “The story is told of a number of people who hired a man to go to Stafford, Connecticut, to bring back mineral water. He filled a thirty-gallon cask, sold the water all the way back to Massachusetts at one dollar per gallon, and by refilling it at each brook […]
Author: Graph Iatroos, pseudonym Date: February 1765 “[S]end it by a trusty Person carefully seal’d & superscribed lest a tel[l]tale Wife or Child divulge that which must be as secret as Masonry till some Societies are established.”
