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The American CRISI S, [No. lIL]
(concluded frta ear lafl)..
T ' uifci&uu all iu^u.t and disorder te
puuilkraent of &ffeadOT ; and wilh 10 ba
.' ' governed, not by temper bet by re&fen, in
the manner of treating them. We are
fible that oar caufs h^ fuffired by the two following
errors; fi ft, by aa ill judged leaity to traitors,
perfect in feme cases ; aid fecoadly, by only a pal
fiaaate treatment of thrm in other#. For the u:ure
we disown both and with to be steady in our proceed
ings, and fe tea# in our punishments.
•• Every State in America has by the repeated
voice of tu iinhabitant,, dira@ed and authorized te
Continental Congref to publish a formal Declarati
on f Independence of, and reparation f ° m , 'he cp
pretiv¥ ki*g and parliament of Great Britain; an
we look on every man an enemy who daes not in
feme line or other give hi# affiance towards feppoit
ing the fme ;at the fame time we coufi er the tf #
fence to ot asightoned to a degree of unpardonable
guilt, whin such pe fans under the shaw of rerigioß,
endeavour, either by writing, fpeak^g, or otheiwife,
to fabvert, overturn, or bring reproach upon the In
dependence of thia CdAtinent as Declared by C'un
grefs.
'' Title publishers of the paper, figged " John
Permbtrton " have called in a loud and paffi^ate
manner on their frindr and conneaiona, to ° with
fad and refufe" obedience t 3 whatever •' infaaioxe
or ordinances" may ba pub'ilhed, not warranted by
(what they cali) that happy constitution un
der WHICH " THEY AND OTHERS LONG ENJOYED
•' TRANQJLITY AND PBaCS." If this be RO< tCA
fja, we k^w not what may properly be called by
that name.
'' To us it is a matter of fgrprife and aftaaiffiment,
that men wita the word " peace peace, continually on
their iips, Should be so fond of living under, and fap
p^ting a government and at the fame time calling
it " ba,„," whica is niver better pleafad than whea
at war -that hath filled India wiih carnage and ff
miue- Africa wi;h Slivery - and tampered with Indi
ans and Negroes to cue the throats of the freemen of
America. We conceive it a disgrace to this State to
harbour or wink at fich palpable hypocrisy. But as
we fiek not to hurt the hair of any man'# head, when
we can make ourfelve fafe without, we with such par
fjas to retiore peace to themfafves and us, by remov
ing themfs.vei into feme part of the kirg of Britain's
doainioas, as by that mesas they may live uamo
lotted by us or we by them ; for ou r fixe opinion is,
that thofs who do not deserve a place among us,
ought net to have one.
I," Wa conclude, with requeuing the Council of
fafety to take into thrir co^fid ration the paper
figged " John Pemberton -," and if it Shall appear to
akam to be of a dangerous terrene, or of a ireafon
abla nature, that they wguld comit the signer, toge
ther with such other perfors as they c#n discover were
concerned therein, into ceftody, until such time as
feme mode of trial Shall afcertaii the full degree of
their guilt and puurShment ; in the doing of which,
we with their judges, whoever they may be, to dis
regard th: ma,, hi# eonneaioas, intareft, riches, po
verty or principles of religion, and to attend to the
nature of his efface only."
THE s,^ cavilling fs&man cannot accufi s ths
foregoing with eantaning the laaft ingredient of per
fecutioft. The free f ritit on which the American
cause is fru&dsd, difisias to mix with such an im
purity, and leave it a rubbish fit only far narrow and
fufpimus minds to grevelin : Safpicion and perfe
curion are weeds cf the fame dunghill, and fl?erilh
bast together. Had the Qykm minded their religion
and business, they might anve lived through /hit dif
puts in enviable eefe, and none would have molafted
them. T,s common phrase with these people is,
" Our principles are peace." Towhich may be replied,
andjour ,radices ay tbe merfe\ fe, never did the con
duct of men oppose their own dearies more natori
aufly than the prefrat race of the Makers. They
have artfully changed themfeveg ixiw a different
fart of people to what they used to be, and yet have
ths addrafs to parfiade each other the, are not alter
ed ; like antiquated virgins they fee not the havoc
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deformity hath made upon them, but pleasantly mis
taking wrinkles for dimples, conceit thamfeves yet
lovely, and wonder at the flupid world for not ad
miring them.
Did ne injury ante to the public by -his apoftacy
of tae Quakers from themselves, the public would
have noi^g to de with it ; but as both the deign
and Cenfaquencss are pointed again# a cause in
which the whole ccm aunity are ingrafted, it is there
fore no longer a fubjea confined to the cognizance
of the meeting o*l,, but comes as a matter of crimi
allity before either the authority tof the particular Scare
i# qobicb it is a&ed, or of the Continent agai*fl which
it operates. Every attempt now to fuppurt the au
thority of ths king ar parliament of Great- Britain
over America, is tieafon agaiaft rher, State ; there
fore it is imptffiole that any one can pardon or screen
from puilhme&t an offender again# all.
But to pr/ctea : While the infatuated Tories es
this and other Spates were last fpimg talking of
C&mmffi mrs, accommedarion, making the matter up
a^d the Lord k tows what fluff and nonfenfs, their good
king and miaiftry ware gutting themselves with the
revenge of reducing America to an uncewditiwal fob
miffox, and of solacing each n&r with the certainty of
conquering it in ,„ campaign. The following quotati
ons are from the Parliamentary regiher es .he debates
of the House of Lords, March jin, 1776
" The Americans” fays Lo.d Talbot*," " have
been obftiqatte, u^dutiful and ungovernable from the
very beginning, from their firft early and infant fet
tlemeut# ; ana I am every day more and more con
vinced that this people will never be brought back
to their duty, and the subordinate relation the, fiend
in to this country, till reduced to ax uxcexditienal tf<c
tual fxb»iffidx ; ne cencefon on ear part, no lentt,, ne
endurance, will have any otaer affed but that of encmf
ing their insolence."
•' The fragile fays," Lord Tewnfadf, " is
now a druggie fir power; the die is call, and the
only point which now remains to be determined,
is, in want mißaer the war can be moil cffedoally
prefecuted and fpudily fiailhid, in order to procure
that unconditional fubmffin, which has been fe ably stat
ed by ths noble Emi wi h the white fluff" (meaning
Lord Taibe ) ;" and I hare no reafen to doubt
that the memnres new purfusag will put an e,d to
the war in the course of a single campaign."
" Should it linger longer, we Ih&a then have region
t® expect that feme foreign power will interfere, and
take ^dv&atage es our deraedick troub.es and civil
difttaaion."
Lord Littleton, " My fentimeata are pretty well
known, lihad only ebferve now, that lenient m^a
fures have had another ash& than to produce infultaf er
infalt :ihsi the more we conceded, the higher Ame
rica rofa in her demands, and the more infaleni ihs
has grown. It is for this reason that I era new for
the mast elfeaive and deceive measures ; and am es
opinion, th*t no alternative is left ui, but to relin
qniffi America far ever, or fi ally determine to com
pel her to acknowledge the ie&:flAtive authefhy cf this
country ; e^d it is the principle es an unconditional
fobmiffion Twauld be for maintaining?'
Can words be uore expaflive than theft ? Surely
the Tories will btiitvs tan Tory Loidl The truth is,
they d® believe them, and kxow as fully as any Whig
on the Continent knows, that tie king and miaiftry
never had the leafl design us an accommodation with
America, but an abfJu:e unconditional coaqaeß.
A d the part which the Tories were to a&, was, by
d^warift lying, to endeavour to put the Coni^eut
eff its guard, asd divide aud fw discontent in tke
minds es such W^ig^ as they misht gain an it fluence
ov^r. la (hurt, to keep up a difj&aion here, that
the f):ca feat from ERgUnd might be ab'a to con
quer in 46 ,„ campaign." They and the ministry were,
by & different game, playing into each other's hands.
The cry of the Tories in Ragland was, " No recon
filiation, ne accommodation," in order to obtain the great
er military fires ; while those in America ware cry
in nothing but " reconciliation nd accomodation," that
the force feat might cenquer with the left rafif
taeca.
Bur thisfagle campaign" is over, and America not
* Steward oftbe king boujhbold. f Formerl, General
Townfond at Quebec, and late Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
f HE
number &&
COURANT,
HARtFORb
INTELLIGENCER.
Both FOREIGN and DOMESTIC.
conquered. Tils whole work is yet to de, aid the
force ranch less to do it wiih, Their cendfeen is
both despicable end deplorable ; Out of c;ffi -cut
of heart--- and out es hepe. A country fuinilhed
with arms and numnwiticn, as America new is
with three millions of inhabitants, and three thenland
mites diftaat from the nearest enemy that can ap
proach her, is able to lock had laugh them in the
face.
Howe appears to have two ebjia# in view, either
to go up he Norh riv^r, or came to Philadelphia.
By going up the North river, he secures a retreat
for his array this' Canada, but the Ship mill re
turn, if they return at all, the feme way they went;
and as our array would be in the rear, the faftty of
their passage down is a doubtful matter. By fuch'
a metioi he ffiuts himfelf fr^m all {applies from Eu
rope but thru' Canada, and exposes his army end navy
to the danger cf periling. The idea of his cutting
eff the cotarauaicatioß between the saltern and feuth
era States, b, means cf the North river, is merely vi
sionary. He cannot de it b, his lipping ; bsciufa
no lip can lay leng at anchor in any river within
raaca es the share ; a single pun would drive a firft
rate fr<m fach a flarien : This Was fully proved
left Oa&ber at fori Waihmgttn and Lee, whete one
gun only, an each fids of the river, obliged two frigates
to cut and be lowed off in an how's time, Neither era
he cut it off by his array; bacaufe the several poffs they
mutt occupy, would divide them almeft to nothings
and expefe them to be picked up by oars like pebbles
on a river's bank ; but admitting he could, where is
the injury ? Beczufe while his witic so ce is canton
ed out, as centrist over the water, they will be very
innocently employed, and the moment they march in
to the country, the communication opens.
Thi mod probable objea is Philadelphia, and th#
reasons are many. Hide's bufiacis in America is to
eeaquer it, and in proportion si he finds himfelf
unable to the ttft, he will empoly his fiiength to
distress women ana we&k minds, in order to acecm
plifh through tbeir fsars what he cannot effect bv
his own force. Hi scoming or attemptirg to come to
Philadelphia is a circernftsuce that pravo his weak
nsfi: For no general, that feh himfeif able to take
the held and attack his antagenift, would thiak of
bringing his army into a city in the fan am rime ;
and this mere fhifung the feme from place to place,
without tffd&i^g any thing, Aas feebieaefs and cow
ardidice on the f&ca of it, and holds him up in & con
temptible light to any one who can resfea just;, and
firmly By several informations fi@ra Non York, it
appears that their army in general, both officers and
men, have given up the expe&aioa of maqasring
America; their eye, now, is fixed upon the fpoiL
They fappufi Philadelphia to be rich with flores, and
as they think to get mere by robbing a town than by
attacking the array, their movement towards this city
is probable. We are not now contending ngriaft an
army of feldiers, but agviaft a band of thieves, who
had rather plunder than fight, and have no other hope
of cenqueft than by cruelty.
They expert to get a mighty booty and Hrikean.
other panic by making a fedden movement and get
ting poff.ffion cf this city, but unless the, can rasrch
out as well as in, or get the entire command or the
river, to remove off their plunder, they may proba
bly be flopt with the stolen goods upon them. They
have never yet fuccetded ^haever they have been,
eppofed but at fort Washington. At Charleftown
their defeat w*s sffc&ual. Ar Ticenderc^a they ran
away. Is every ikirmifh at K^gflbrid^c sad the
White Plains they were obliged to retreat, and the
inftaut ear army vers turned upon thsm in the Jer
fies, they turned blewits, s R d theft that taxed
not were tskea-
The necvffi7 of a! *% fitting er interna! police to
the circamft^cti cf the times we 'ive in, is femethiag
fe strikingly obvious that me frffictent objeaien can
be m:dt again# lto The fifety of all societies de
pend open it : od where thi, point is not attended
to, the cctftquer.ee will either be a general leggeur
er a tumult. The eaceuragement and protedien of
the geed fubj<& cf any State, ead the fuppreffira
and panifhment cf bad cuts, are the principalolj Q,
for which all authority j, instituted, ardibe li,,< in
which it ought to eptrate. We have in this city a