The Connecticut courant and Hartford weekly intelligencer — Hartford, Conn., 1777-12-16 00:00:00, page 2

avoid it himfelf, but resent it in others, if he
did but turn it in his own mind, that the
farmer that fells his beef, pork, wheat, rye,
Indian corn, butter arid cheese, at four or
five times the common and ordinary price
must gain by the depreciation, and those
who have little or nothing to fell, and all
who have to buy, muft'neceffarily be the
loofers,
Lastly, With the monopolizer and engros
ser ah^ their agents dispersed in all parts of
these United States, whoretail their different
commodities in their leveral departments ei
ther at home or in the army abroad, will be
found no small parcels of our bills when
called for by taxes to fink them, and of this
fort I conceive there are two kinds.
Thefr Ifort are those who depreciate the
bills, to inrich themselves by oppressing all
around them, whether at home, or abroad in
the army, relying upon the faith of the con
tinent, that in case we can fuppoft our'inde
pendence, those very bills will be redeemed,
either in fiver, or by the sale of the kings
forfeited lands, er the lands of those loyal vas
sals to the Britifo king, who have joined or
yielded their affiltarice to enslave this country.
This fort, however, have been very pru
dent to purchase all the lands they possibly
could, and have kept themselves very much
behind the curtain, that they might tome out,
either whig or tory, as might best serve their
ptirpofe. °.
The fecoiid fort are men ofthe fame ft amp
efthe Britifo ministry, and enemies to the li
berties of America, who would have all men
b^ down at the foies of tbeif feet, and receive
every thing they are pleased to deal out to
them, with all that gratitude and homage,
Which becomes dependent creatures, to pay to
their all-bountiful benefactor, the Great F'a
f^nt bf the univfrfa and that whenever any
^re so infofent, as to oppose them ortheir mea
fufes, they caf abroad the rage of their wrath,
^rid'endeaVOr to tread them down as mire in
the facets These then, after having oppres
sed their neighbours by every measure in
theif power, and engrossed all the lands they
hear of to be fold, every necessary foreign
commodity they could meet with, andint^r
^fed themselves id every kind of manufac-"
ture they know their country cannot subsist
Without, all which they have effected by
those very bills, .whose credit they under value,
by frefluentiy throwing out we Ihall certainly
be fabjugated by Griat-Britain in the end,
Tewing every adyahtag^ gained by out
Sarnies, with a cheerful coutitendn% and an
lifted Wee, and always replying to any of
Erfurtfo with d^n cast looks arid murmurs
^ l^^e %ra Agamd the ihcle^eAtte'3 di
the winters froft with the wool which his
little flock produces, and can but just make
out todricharge his blacksmiths and fhoe
makefs bills, leaving perhaps his parifo mF
nfier to fhift tor himfelf until his next crop
comes in; and what is .still more certain,
not that farmer who from the scantiness of
his farm, the poverty of its foil, the numer
ousness of his family, not arrived to a fit
state to labour, who is obliged to make up
What is wanting to procure bread by day
labour, or to fell a calf or a yearling which
he had nursed up with great care, which I
know has often been the case ; nay, this ve
ry filing my neighbour told me he had fold
acalf which his cow then had in her belly,
to procure bread for his family. What
folly and madness is it therefore for such
farmers to assist the opulent farmer and en
grosser to depreciate these bills! by raising
Upon the price of a few loads of wood, which
they will greatly want in the compass of a
few years, or of a pig, a turkey, a goose, ben,
or even upon her eggs, when with the great
est frugality, not a single dollar will be left
in their pockets, when their taxes must be
paid, Should his family be visited with a
ffiort fit of sickness in the intermediate space
oftime; most certainly he should not only
frety ^&&, fnd it length re^fe ^5 fell
any article they .are podfffrd of for those
bills, and r.otwithftanrdng the law of the
Rate, refute them for any debt due to.then!
Ry their condu& it is easy to know them.
With such men will cur bills be found
when we are called upon to fink them by
taxes, and how shall we get them out of the
hand of the possessor ? Will the rich farmer
Who has fold his wheat for four dollars per
bushel, give the day labourer two dollars
per day for his labour, in order to pay h&
tax, and to the feverai 'forts of mechanicks
who work by the day, in„like proportion.?
1 will answer for them, No. Wilkhe give
for a good cow £l2 or£is In those bills
for the fame purpose ? I will again answer
No: The tone will be changed, he may per
haps tell you he will give you half a bushel
of wheat per day for labour in harvest or
mowing time, butthat labourers are now
plenty, and the price of beef greatly reduced;
and that they cannot now give either for la
bour or stock as formerly they had. done,
and that the time of the redemption of the
bills is at.hand, when they shall receive the
fame in specie. This will be the language of
ttefarmer who has the bills in possession,
to whom you muff fell your flock or labour
for what they will please to give, for as much
as will discharge the proportion of your
taxes called for by the fa? rates, and the re
mainder you may perhaps for your lands
procure from the engrosser.
Methinks ( fee- our midling farmers,
tradesmen and day laborers convinced of
their mistake, and that they begin to fee,
that % and they only will fuffer by the de
preciation of our bills, as they paid the
whole of the intereflr arising on our bills
emitted during the last, they now fee they
are like to fuffer the fame fate by their de
preciation in the frefent,war, and that upon
this difeovery their resentments begin to rife,
but I would intreat them to keep their re
sentments under the regulation of their rea
son and judgment, and to proceed to no vi
-o&meafures for redress ; but 'in the jd#
p/^ce, endeavor to search out the true cause
of their depreciation, and examine whether
they have not in some measure contributed
something to it themselves, and if they have,
to reform immediately^ for that a speedy re
formation is absolutely necessary, or we are
undoneg this may be easily foiown without
the spirit of prophecy. In ztenext place, let
us all chearfully submit to every .inconveni
ency we must necessarily undergo in order
to retrieve its credit, and if any are made to
fuffer in their private interests, who from
avarice or enmity to their country have design
edly contributed to"its depreciation, 1 shall
with great quietude submit. Aad' in order
to obtain redress in a legal manner; let our
' representatives be intruded, carefully to ex
amine the laws now in force against (pfreffum,
and unrighteous extortion, daily pratftifec lin
open fight of the fun, and wherever ithath
been done either by withholding bread frotn
the hungry, or by monopolizing the conveni
encies or necessaries of life, whether from
principles inimical to the American cause, or •
ftom a desire of unrighteous gain, that laws
just and equal be framed t® relieve the oppres
sed, such as the oppreffok will not dare a se
cond time to trarifgrefs ; and to request that
an exa& estimate be made forthwith, of all
the wheat, rye, and Indian corn that now is
in this fate, that in case there is hot a fuffi-,
ciency found, that the legislature (whose
duty it most certainly is) be desired at the
public etpence to provide a competent sup
ply from abroad for the use of the inhabi
tants ; and in case there shall be found &
competent supply, that ih that case, &e ft.
led men in each town be impowered to take•
into their fafe custody, all such grain as they'
shall judge is not wanted by the owner for
his immediate use, and the fame fell to the
inhabitants of such towns as may want bread,
' awn I imiiu, li M<tf »^ o ,a»a ~■ ttTOd—iILI I t . # . iitji
DEBATED f^ tie foe &r a:
Bmhm^cw Div% hie e s Wm/fir, ^km^Ur
te the cantimwa! army, afot s.fm 5 .fm 6 iQt
tay ey#6^^ ^ reu of Q, had era ^;# @0
mt,fy||,tyu *,<, brew, D : 671% sfo &ffg 3
~e final! ^ rel h^ A." ' Whfori will #% —ftid' do.
• filter ^ fcceti hifert, finite h# ^fy ^,b^l to La
c^Ht Gri, Chavd^M I%foM fiml hm tea
Ura m.u aed ,11 ^ £y, cha^, paid, by
SAMUEL MaiTOIKS Cart.•
Dec. 14. 17,7. ''
Strayed or stolen fr^nlhe 7^
yu e, ^ Apr, ^ik fc ri. M'aß&COct,
bid p^, veil . nib, natural trotter, b'&ded G
her ieft traneckc. .Wh„v%, u ^ ^ so ^„ „
@d i,u^ h%oth#fahfc ib] f fori km § dolh.fr
„t#s?tfd Qd all necefo, charf# psy, by
Daniel Griswold.
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rc:^ o ^#."ren«otf¥=„_-<_ a-
Strayed or stolen from the fubferiber
,b#N Q HOR E, &#t 14 fad, Q
^er wim ^ ahead, jh^d . before, a b^ith. i&
ayd; alft,a ohik GOLT, fllhoee „fc!ts.fgat. Ifo.
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said Act „,h.faQ ffi&l ^^ fd^a^ford #
£ "ch^d^i^tet J^yMbftToN.
QxKsxZED m M...%i1n I:^^ ^A^ht^tte,'
.' ^ %.u^^ef thu iacAfy a&f La,fyrd Milt
about 1, mite, ffy^ %^ the ;^i ^
BlmWg&w , HORSES.to ^4 b^, #
a few v.^sl^u U ^ f^F u^ 7fo.
i 4 hraW ? vl,id hi#,.lafo &„d, fop ^
a^d to ?, ^h.t 3 p^^d^ti^; t^zfo
a rad ^, 4 ^ef ^,.44 h^dg ted
awhitet^
of y faahft, ^f^ h^rfog^d !%£&
and,pact# w^n . ph^m ^rik,.^^
either of &m ^h^^ tl to tya n
Gefhen, iu Lriceibid c,m<, , ^ f 1 .4 fa
that ha any fo^^em er &hg el ^tf
nave tea dollar so ^hj'a^ r#a&fye
: 1% by HaTTHBW SMtr&
Gi^a, Nmtfc >77%
rat^^ price ^erdiig ;.
plenty of such gram, returning the monev
arising on the fate of foch gr^in to the
per owners firft deduce g. . the fadfai,
charges arising on such fa)es- CT d if in thus
Way my oppressed neighbours will kfk for io
dress they will most certainly obtain it, f&r
rulers arc hot a terror to gcod week, but to"Ac
evil— For he is the minder of God to thee sos
good Por they are God's minifters^ attending
continually upon this very thing, and in this
way you may always depend upon the advice
and assistance of CATO
Stiayed or llolen from the fubferiber on the
'°" w \T', Ho ^E s^^^#, i 4 Sum and
3 I*C4@s high b&a»de, X him# i^&r ^^fer feed
>: sof ^ MARESHS fice, 2
old p,£ fr, h£R^sa r d s half h'gh, b^ad^ T$
Roar l u& t. Whg&m win ^j^ sap
& f,bfaite foil be h^dfob ^
warned, awd aeccfflry charge ,^id. by
„ , ,_ Thomas Sloan.
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full t, ^ft ^ fid afo,; These ^ therefor
to wan al the , epnetnof feid t ow^ (hi,cf Pocock,
tamrftet ^ha so rg heufe rs SAMUIL Hubqir.
h, in N^fin&ld, ci the la* „,„da, ofD.-c.
' Alexander SraWARt, ,
Nov. 4. 1777'
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b, pkcyirig hi# peptsty Aad paying charge# '
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