hate though as a fallen angel with his heavenly brightness pure fame in an cause and here is a new book for my evening s � a history of the war till the close of the year with the heads of thirteen distinguished officers engraved on copper plate a plague upon their heads we desire not to see them till they grin at us from the balcony before the fixed on as the heads of how bloody minded the make a old man what next an on the horrid of when that blood was shed � the first that the british soldier ever drew from the of our countrymen � we turned sick at heart and do so still as often as they make it anew from among the stones in king street the pool that we saw that night has swelled into a lake � english blood and american � no all british all blood of my brethren and here come old down tears shame on me since half of them are shed for who are not now even the women are thrusting their white hands into the war and come out in this very paper with proposals to form a society � the lady of washington at their head � for clothing the continental they will strip off their stiff to cover the ragged and then in the ranks themselves what have we here s turned into rhyme and here some verses against the king in which the leaves a blank for the name of george as if his might yet him to the such after years of rebellion is the heart s reverence for the lord s in the next column we have scripture in a against his sacred majesty what would our great have said to that they never laughed at god s word though they cut off a king s head yes it was for us to prove how goes hand in hand with and all other vices come in the train now a days men commit robbery and for the mere luxury of wickedness as this advertisement three hundred pounds reward for the detection of the who stole and destroyed the cushions and pulpit of the street and old south churches was it a crime i can scarcely think our temples since the king ceased to be prayed for but it is not temples only that they rob here a man offers a thousand dollars � a thousand dollars in continental rags � for the recovery of his stolen and other articles of clothing horse are old news innumerable now is the day when every beggar on horse back and is not the whole land like a beggar on horse back riding post to the devil ha here is a murder too a woman slain at midnight by an unknown and found cold stiff and bloody in her bed let the hue and cry follow hard after the man in the uniform of blue and who last went by that way my life on it he is the these whom we see proclaimed in every column � proof that the are as false to their stars and as to the holy � they bring the crimes of a rebel camp into a soil well suited to them the bosom of a people without the heart that kept them virtuous � their king here down a whole column with official seal and here comes a by whose authority ah the united states � these thirteen little assembled in that one grand their and what the import a general fast by heaven for once the have wisely yea let a people kneel down in and ashes from end to end from border to border of their wasted country well may they fast where there is no food and cry aloud for whatever remnant of god s mercy their sins may not have exhausted we too will fast even at a rebel summons pray others as they will there shall be at least an old man kneeling for the righteous cause lord put down the god save the king peace to the good old tory one of our objects has been to without softening a single prejudice proper to the character which we assumed that the old news americans who clung to the losing side in the revolution were men greatly to be pitied and often worthy of our sympathy it would be difficult to say whose lot was most lamentable that of the active who gave up their for a from the british roll and their native land for a cold reception in their home or the passive ones who remained behind to endure the coldness of former friends and the public as despised citizens under a government which they in justice to the old gentleman who has favored us with his discontented we must remark that the state of the country so far as can be gathered from these papers was of dismal for the tendencies of rule it was in the of that day to mistake the temporary evils of a change for permanent diseases of the system which that change was to establish a revolution or anything that social order may opportunities for the individual display of eminent virtues but its effects are to general morality most people are so constituted that they can be virtuous only in a certain routine and an irregular course of public them one great source of disorder was the multitude of troops who were continually returning home after terms of service just long enough to give them a to occupations neither citizens nor soldiers they were very liable to become almost all our impressions in regard to this period are unpleasant whether referring to the state of civil society or to the character of the contest which especially where native americans were opposed to each other was with the deadly hatred old news of enemies it is 