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Relolved, That it be recommended to the different Com
mittees, and other friends to American liberty in the laid co
lonies, to treat all such persons with kindness and attention,
to couiider them as the inhabitants of a country determined to
be free, and to view their errors as proceeding rather from
want of information than want of virtue or public spirit, to
explain to them the origin, nature and extent of the present
centroveriy, to acquaint them with the fate of the numerous
petitions presented to his Majelty, as wed by Assemblies as
by CongreHes, for reconciliation and redress of grievances, and
that the last from this Congress humbly requeuing the signal
favor of being heard,like all the others, has proved unfuccefsful;
to untold to them the various arts of administration to ensnare
and enslave us, and the manner in u hich we have been cruelly
driven to defend by arms those very rights, liberties and estates
which we and our forefathers had to long enjoyed unmolested in
the reigns of his present Majesty's predece^ors. And it is here
by recommended to ail Conventions and Assemblies in these
colonies liberally to diitribute among the people the proceed
ings of this and the former Congress, the late speeches of
the great patriots in both Houses of Parliament relative to
American grievances, and such other pamphlets and papers
a> tend to iliucidate the merits of the American caule. The
Congress being fully persuaded that the more our right to the
enjoyment of our ancient liberties and privileges is examined,
the more just and necessary our present opposition to minilie
rial tyranny will appear.
And with respect to all such unworthy Americans as, re
gardless of their duty to their Creator, their country, and
their posterity, have taken part with our oppressors, and in
fluenced by the hope or possession of ignominious rewards,
drive to recommend themlelves to the bounty of administra
tion by misrepresenting and traducing the conduct and
principles of the friends of American liberty, and oppo
sing every measure formed for its preservation and security,
Refoived, That it be recommended to the different Assem
blies, Conventions, and Committees or Councils of Safety in the
United Colonies, by the most speedy and effectual measures to
fruftrate the mifehievous machinations, and restrain the wicked
practices of the e men. And it is the opinion of this Congress
that they ought to be disarmed, and the more dangerous
among them either kept in fafe custody or bound with fuf
ficient sureties to their good behaviour.
And in order that the said Assemblies, Convent'on , Com
mittees or Councils of Safety may be enabled with greater
case and facility to carry this resolution into execution, Re
solved, That they be authorifed to call to their aid what
ever Continental troops stationed in or near their refpedive
colonies, may be conveniently spared from their more imme
diate duty ; and the commanding officers of such troops are
hereby directed to afford the said Assemblies, Conventions,
Committees or Councils of Safety, all such assistance in exe
cuting this resolution as they may require, and which, con
fident with the good of the service, may be supplied.
Resolved, That all detachments of Continental troops,
which may be ordered on the business in the aforegoing reso
lution mentioned, be, while so employed, under the direction
and controul of the Assemblies, Conventions, Committees,
or Councils of Safety aforefaid.
PHILADELPHI A, January 4.
In C C) NGRESS, January & 1,761
Whereas it has been represented to this Congress, that dU
vers honest and well meaning, but uninformed people in these
colonies, have, by the art and address of minilierial agents,
been deceived and drawn into erroneous opinions refpedting
tae American caule, and the probable issue of the prelent con
test :
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Resolved, That it be recbhimehded cd All the United Ccl^
web to aid each oth^r (on request from their relative AiHm.
Lies, Conventions, Committees or. Council of Safety, and
County Committee ) on every emergency, and to cultivar,
cherish and increase the present happy and necessary union, by
a continual interchange of mutual good offices.
And whereas the execiable barbarity with which this un
happy war has been conducted on the part of our enemies,
such as burning our defencelefs towns and villages, exposing
their inhabitants, without regard to lex or age, to all the mise
ries which loss of property, the rigor of. the leal m, and in
human devastation can indict, exciting domestic indirections
and murders, bribing the savages to desolate our frontiers,
and calling such of us, as the fortune of war has put into
their power, into gaols, there to languiih in irons and in
want; compelling the inhabitants of Bolton, in violation of
the treaty, to remain confined within the town, exposed to
the insolence of the soldiery, and other enormities at the men
tion of which decency and humanity will for ever blush, may
justly provoke the inhabitants of these colonies to retaliation,
Resolved, That it be recommended to them to continue
mindful that humanity ought to diftinguilh the brave, that
cruelty should find no admission among a free people, and to
take care that no page in the annals of America be stained by
a recital of any a&ion which justice or chriftianity may con
demn, and to rest assured that whenever retaliation may be
necessary or tend to their security, this Congress will under
take the disagreeable talk.
Resolved, That the Assemblies, Conventions, or Com
mittees or Councils of Safety be requeued forthwith to trans.
mit to this Congress copies of all the petitions, memorials,
and remonstrances which have been by their refpe#ive colo
nies presented to the Throne, or either House of Parliaments
since the year 1772, and that they allo inform this Congress
whether any and what answers were given to them,
Extracts from the minutes,
CHARLES THOMSON, Secretary.
In COMMITTEE of the city and liberties, January 2, 1776.
Relolved, That 110 matter or owner of any veifel or vtffels
shall drip any provisions, goods or merchandize of any kind
from this port, without firft giving fatisfaftion to, and receiv
ing the approbation of this Committee.
By order of the Committee,
ROBERT STRETTELL JONES, Secretary.
IRISH SNUFF manufactured (agreeable to the receipts of
the most approved makers of that article in Ireland) by
Edward Jollie in Union-street, within two doors of Second-
Ereet, Philadelphia ; where likewise may be had fine SCOTS
SNUFF on the molt reasonable terms.
December 28th, 1775.
AS little regard has been paid to a former ad vertifement,
this is therefore to make known to the CREDITORS
of SAMUEL M'KEAN, late of the Northern Liberties, that
un'efs they deliver in their accounts in two weeks from the date
hereof they will be excluded from a dividend, one of the
assignees being aboutto leave the province. JOSEPH GRIS
WOLD, ALEXANDER KIDD, WILLIAM CRISPIN.
N. B. Those who are indebted will speedily difeharge the
fame, or expert to be sued without respect of persons.
PHILADELPHIA: Printed by BENJAMIN
TOWNE, in Front-street, near the Londe
Coffee-Houfe.