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Surrender tbemfelves to atfyclvi] or military officer of
any of these States and ihall return to the State to
ft hich they may belong before the tenth day of June
next and recommend mg it to the good and faithful
citizens of thole States to receive fetch returning pe
nitents with compassion and mercy, and to forgive
aid bury in oblivion their past failings and transgres
sions.
Tho' I think it my duty to submit this resolution
to your serious consideration because it is recom
rrended by congress, 1 do not think it my duty to
recommend it to your approbation, because it appears
1 tune both unequal and impolitic. It may, confid
ently with the profoundeft veneration for that august
Aflembly be presumed that they are fefs acquainted
with the particular circumflances and internal police
of Tome of the States than those who have had more
favourable opportunities for that purpose. There
seems, it ts true, something fonoble and magnani
mous in proclaiming an unmerited amnesty t' a
number of difappcint^d Criminals submitting them
selves to the mercy of their country; and there is in
reality something so divine and ohriftian in the for
givenefs of injuries, that it may appear rather invi
dious to offer any thing in obftruAtion of the intend
ed clemency. Butas to the benevolent religion to
which we are under the bigheft obligation to con
form cur conduct though It forbids at all times, and
in all cases, the indulgence of personal hatred and
malevolence it prohibits not any treatment of nati
onal enemies or municipal offenders, necessary to felf
prefervatton and the general weal of society. And
astohummit, I could never persuade myfelf that it
confided in fitch lenity towards our adversaries, ei
ther Britain or domeflic, as Was evidently productive
^of tenfold barbarity on their part; when such barba
rity would probably have been prevented by our re
taliating upon them the firfl perpetration; and conse
quently our apparent inhumanity, in particular in
stances, Haye certainly been humane in the final re
fait, Alas! how many lives had been saved and
what a feene ofinexpreffible misery prevented, had
we, from the I coining, treated our bosom-traitors
with proper ft verify and inflicted the law of retaJi
ation upon an enemy too savage to be humanized
by any other argument !As both political pardon
and punishment ought to be regulated by political
considerations, and muff derive their expedience or
impropriety from their salutary or pernicious influ
ence upon the community, I cannot Conceive what
advantages are proposed by inviting to the embraces
of their country a set of beings,' from which any
country, I should imagine, would edeenr it a capi
tal part of its felicity to remain for ever at the remo
test distance. It is not probable that those who de
ferred us toaid the most matchiefs coimoiffeurs in the
refinements of cruelty (who have exhausted human
ingenuity in their engines of torture) in introduceing
arbitrary power and all the horrors of slavery and
will only return from disappointment not from re
morse, will ever make good fubjeds to a state found
ed in liberty, and inflexibly determined against e
very inroad of lawless dominion. The thirty-one
criminals lately conviAed of the most flagrant trea
son and who. by the gracious interposition of go
vernment, were upon very hopeful signs of PENI
TENCE generoupy pardoned, and then with hypo
critical cheerfulnefs inlifted in our fertace, have all,
to a man deserted to the enemy and are again in
arms against their native country, with the accumu
lated guilt of its bemg now not only the country,
that firft gave them life but which hath after they
had most notoriously forfeited it mercifully referred
them from death. Whence it is probable that a real
lory is by any human means absolutely inconver
tible, having so entirely extinguished all the primi
tive virtue rod patriotism natural to man, as not to
leave a fing'e spark to rekindle the original flame.---
It is indeed against all probability that men, arrived
at the highch poffibJe pitch of degenerecy, the pre
ferring of tyrannytoa fee government, should, ex
cept by a miracle of Omnipotpnce, be ever capable
of one single virtuous impression. They have, bv a
kind A gigantic effort of villany, aftoniffied "the
whole world, even that of transcending in the enor
rifes of desolation and blood shed a race of mur
nereis before unequalled, and without competitor.
Were it not for these mifereants, we should have
thought that fcr cool deliberate cruelty and una
% a ling undecifive havqc the fom of Britain were
without parallel. But considering the education of
the latter, which Bas familiarized them to the shed
ding of innocent blood, from the meer thirst of lucre,
they have'been excelled in their own peculiar and
dillinguifhing e&Hence, by this monllrous Birth
and off scouring of America, who, in defiance of
nature and of nur.n^ have not only by a reverft
ambition chosen bondage before freedom, but waged
an infernal war against their deleft connexions, for
not making the like abhorred and abominable elec
tion. By them have numbers of our most ufeful and
meritorious citizens been hmbufhed, hunted down,
pillaged unhoufed, stolen or butchered. By them
'has the present contest, on the part of Britain, been
encouraged, aided and protra&ed. They arethere
fore, responsible for all the additional blood that has
been fpilt by the addition of their weight in the
feale of the enemy. Multitudes of them have fa
peradded perjury to treason. At the commence
ment of duroppofeion .they appeared more sanguine•
than others, and. like TH E CRACKLING OF THORNS
order a pot exceeded in blaze and noise the
calm and durable flame of the Ready and persever
ing. They have associated, fubferibed and sworn
to assist in repelling the hostile attempts of our bow
ellefs oppressors They have, with awful solem
nity plighted their faith and honour to stand, with
their lives and fortunes, by the Congress and their
General, in Support of thit Very liberty which, up
on the firft opportunity they perfidioufly arm'd to
oppose and have sacrilegiously sworn utterly to ex
terminate. This worthy citizen has loft a vener
able father ; THAT one a beloved brother ; and a
third, a darling son, either immediately by their
hands or by their betraying him to the enemy, who
from a momentary Unintentional lelapfg into huma
nity, were sometimes inclined to spite, when these
pitrlefs wretches infilled upon slaughter or threat
ened to complain of a relenting officer, merely be
cause he was not diabolically cruel,---Nor will such
an a& of grace prove eventual of refloring to their
injured country the most proper obje&s of pardon.
The more ignorant and deluded (if such ignorance
and delusion there can be) will not be able to obtain
leave from their vigilant tafk-mefters to return to
their duty. The most dangerous and influential
will be indulged with this privilege, and that only
to save tbeiqeftates, without the least compun&ion
of confeiehce. alteration of fehtiment, or meliorati
on of heart. These having already been sworn and
forfworn, will without ceremony, repeat their per
jury whenever it appears conducive to the intro
dudion oftyranny.---To screen such characters from
popular resentment and personal insult, I presume
prudent man would chufe to become Turety,
Those of our citizens who have from the very Be
ginning of the illurtrious contest hazarded their per
sons and property, will think it iniquitable. to re
ceive such malignapts intba full participation of all
the blessings refusing from that independence, which,
with the smiles c Providence has by their co
operation been so gloribufly contested, and at so
great expence and peril, battled out of the very
jaws of taranny. There is in some of ®ur counties
in particular whohave more eminently fu ffered by
their wanton ravages, so rooted an aversion against
this kind of gentry, that the more conspicuous
Whigs (generally the greatest fufferers) would think
it extremely hard to proffer them all the immunities
of that happy constitution ; which they at infinite
rifque have been inffrhmental in establishing while
those n®n-haturals were meditating our definition
frilling ovr blood and ardently wishing for ourfinal
enthralment. And can they ever exped to regain
the confidence of their late fellow fubje&s whose
very looks methinks must confound and abaffi them ?
Surely their mean Ipiritednefs in brooking to return
to their country circumstanced as they are, is only
to be equalled by their guilt in defeating it. Should
we mot be much happier, together with the abolition
of regal mis rule, to purge the continent also of this
political pollution, which must necessarily tarnish the
luhre, and may gradually infeCtfome of the ftili in
corrupted sons of America ' Will it not be better po
licy to infi ft upon a perpetual reparation from those
whose intercourse with us must constantly revive the
most painful ideas, and whose very presence among
the genuine sons of freedom, would seem as unnatural
as that of Satan among the,sons of God ? Thedif
grace they have brought upon their native country
can nevet beexpunged but bylxpunging them. Let
them, therefore rather go into voluntary baniffiment,
and fettle some uninhabited island, rocky if they
pleafe,as their hearts, and seared as their con
sciences, where, not having one honest man among
them, but being all involved in (he fame atrocious
and ^{operable crime of parricide, no one traitor can
upbraid a brother traitor with his treason; nor any
individual of the whole culprit-fraternity point at a
greater fcelerat than himfelf - - There let them establish
a fy ftemof vaflalage raoft suitable to theirown flavilh
dispositions; and ere& an infamous monument in
putrid memorial of those apostates from reason and
converts to difpotifm, wlio fled ft. m Justice, for an
attempted affaffpiation of Liberty.- -Or let them take
fan&uaty in a certain already- fettled island, (proba
bly Jieir favourite foot, because contaminated with
every species of infamy) where it is no bar to the
royal favour to have embraed one's hands in a bro
ther's blood p where -the m,fficre arid fimiffing ^f
thousands has been retarded with a peerage ; and
where no man need to despair of promotion for be
ing a rascal. • #
WIL. LIVING STON.
Princeton, May 29 1778.
THE Committees appointed to purchase Closth
ing for the Continental Army in the several
towns ip this State, are desired to deliver the Cloath
ing they have or may purchase to some one of this
States Commissaries taking their Receipts for the
quantity quality, and value of each article they
deliver : On such receipts being produced to this
board fai d Committees will receive orders on the
Treasurer for payment, and no others. All officers
and gentlemen that have accounts open with the
Committee of Pay-Table are desired to call arid
fettle the fame as soon as possible.
O. Ellsworth, )
J. ChenevArd, (Committee,
F. Wadsworth, j
N. B. The several Printers in this State are de
sired to insert the above in their refpe&ive papers
PjY Tible Office_23d June, 1,78.
C- HOICE Bt)HEA TEA?7o be foid7rfr;
Skinner's near the Great-Bridge. Genu
i? e M ^ ira V^NB by the Quarter -Cafl< or Gallon.
STRAYED or stolen out of the past "ureof Charie'
Caldwell last Monday a sorrel Horie, with a
blaze in his face, natural pacer about 14 hands
high, 7 years old. Whoever will take up said
horse, and return him to Joseph ^ifh in Canterbury
or George Burr, in Hartford, shall have Six Dollar,
reward and necessary charges paid. June 20.
WOOL and COTTO, CARDS-f e r over'Tn
the bed manner, by Obed Clark liv,
ing in Southington about 3 miles south east from
the Meeting House. Good tanned Sheep Skins and
Horse-Hides are very much wanted for carrying oil
my business, for which! willgive a generous price
either in my work or Cassi. ObedClark.'
_ June 19 1778.
Now collecting, and will soon be~pubTifhed"
By ANDREW LAW ofCHesHiRR. in this State,
A COLLECTION of PSALM TUNES and
ANTHEMS, from the most celebrated Au
thors in Great Britain and America; with a com
pleat system of RULES drawn up iq the most con
cise, plain and easy manner, for the benefit of least
ners.
The book will contain about two hundred pages,
neatly engraven on plate.
The fluctuating Situation of our public affairs ren
ders it impossible to afee^tain jhe price of the book 3
but the compiler assures the public .it will be the
cheapest ever published in America, and it will be
cheaper to fubferibers than to others,
Subferphons are taken in by the Printers hereof.
TO be fold at public vendue, 250 acres"of good
land, that will make two good farms, lying
in Newfane, in the county of Cumberland and state
ofNew York, at the house of LUKE KNOLTON.
Esq; in Newfane on thurfday 30th of June 1778, at
one 0 clock in the afternoon. Sad land lies about
one mile from th^ middle of the town, it has conii
derable work done on it, 12 acres cleared, and well
into grass about as much chopt over, a young
orchard on it. and a famous nursery it is supposed
to cut fix tons of hay to be fold all together or in two
or three divisions.
SALT of the heft kind, to be fold for caffi only,
.-by J° H ? Seymour, in Weft- Hartford.
TAKEN up, and now in the hands of the fubferi
ber, of Loudon in the county of Berkshire &
sorrel coloured mare, about 14 hands high, 4 years
old trots and paces, with a burst on one fide, no
brand, shod before, The owner may have her on
paying charges, by applying to
Jacqb Cook, jun.
Loudon, May 31 1,78.
BROKE into the fubferibers inclofure the 9th day
of June instant, a dark brown mark, supposed
to be 3 years old, branded with the letter X on hqz
near Moulder, a Bar in her forehad, trots and paces.
The owner may have her, by proving his property
and paying charges SELAH COLE.
_ Kensington, June Is, 1778, 2
THERE is in the Cuilody of the fubferiber, &
sorrel mare, 14 handsand a half high, blaze,
in her face, branded upon her ffioulder with the
letter A, remarkable fore buffs. Also A bay mare
colt, i year old. The owner is desired to pay char,
ges, and take her away,
SAMUEL WOODBRIDGE,
East Hartford, Junr i„ 1778,