The Virginia gazette — Williamsburg [Va.], 1777-09-26 00:00:00, page 2

h— ded heb- um am this place, ilem. But as m d-y zct-M
dey buryiq his den], lad nhq care of hit mded. Our otficfli
andnaare in "it spied. Not en Maryind eiee' m bunch
Cepuin ]uscph For we: mded in the am,"
THE AMERICAN CRlSlS.
' Ntnun IV.
]) lb: altar of COMMON SENSE.
TIOSE-wbo e: ! w reap the Was freedom mul, like me!?
undergo the atigue of sin 'n; it. The even: ed "("by it
one of those kind of lllslll. '- tell it ]uR sufidcat :: rout": in to duty.
witho t being of comzuenee enough te ; our Made. .lt ts not
. ss osasewacm Mint- thn-entsendmblnd
whether-edefmthemy honehettle, orbydqnes, themseqmee
wzu be the same. si ,
Look hck at the events one! winter us! the peeseneyear, three you
will find thu the eoe-y'e sleeesee have Uny- eonmtmeed to teduee
.theta. Whetthey haeepihed i-gmnd. theypeid sodeetly son
mmbensithu their viaone- lnve in the end munted to May. We
havednyeheenmelennthehlpdh, cnddwayenullwhole-edo
onr duty. Howehnbeenotweonthehnhostheoelam. endstom
thence driven heek with loss ud disgneesi; end why not he lgnn driven
{me: the Selmylkill! His condition ad odd m very dlsisil'flllo He hat
every body to fight, " have only hie c-eemyw cept with, end "Inch
wake any it every engegente-t; we can not only si , but can
teJouhle our numbers; he it out of stew all sepphefisisiict' un! bones
of bres iminb! fill into on: hand:.
Shdllhldjm't'dvethous-dnbw, wheatethiedayfiiteen
lundndct—Msndnenleftin dtutheymyelerday,
conque: Austin, er snhdue evenasingk tate! Thething cannot he.
ct "si'ctsisiu..." si' "'a" "sis'si' "? air;" Aisiffisi'si ' ::si- ""
viehfl ' '- gfm , , " ucing ene-y.
put chambeMn to be Made tosihy
-Couldourwholelmy hue me up to thennek et one time, the
,. consequence- had pmhubly been othcmse; but our hning dishnt yern
of the _Brendywine ereek to guard. and the uncertain! which toed to
.... Phi-a-sskiphin the even: would ;ttempt to take, lum! :fotded than
. en opportunity of pe n with their nuin body at : place where on!!- :
Pan at" our: could be ye ed; for, itmui drike every thinking man mth
eom-iaion, that it requires : much green: force to oppot'e an enemy in
leven! placet, dun is sufficient to ddeat them iusiany one place. *
Men who are tincere in defending their freedom, will always feel con—
cern. at every circumstance, which l'ehmsstp make agninfl them; it i: the
land] and honest consequence of ' ' lute amchmenn. end the
'mt of it it : vice. But the deject ' ".hfls only for : moment; they
bon tise ou' of it with :dditional vigour; the glow of hope, courage,
and saetitude. will, in a little time, supply the plnceofevery inferior
passictn, end kincfle the whole heart into heroism.
There is :\ myflery in the countenance of some causes, which we hue
.dl always present judgment enough to explain. It is diRresingto see
an enemy edvaneing i : country, but it it the only place in which we
un beat them, and to us ich we have deny: beat- them, wheuemthey
mzde the nttempt. The nearer any disease approache; to : crisie. the
neuer it is to: cure: Dung- and delivemee mnke their advances
together, and it in 0an at the [a punt, that one or the other nkee the
There ne may nen who will do their duty whisit it not wanted;
Cut : genuine public spirit ahuyt aypem me! then then: is mon ocu- .
Son for it. Think Goo! ourenny, though satigued, is yetemite.
The mach made by us yenerday wn undet- many disadvmugu, futu
nlly niting from the uncutainty of knowing which route the enemy
would nine; end front thn cireonhnce, the whole of our force could
not be oronght up together time enough to engage dl at once; Our
angth is yet refined; end it is evident that "owe does not think him
bls : gainer by the zsair, otherwise, he could this morning hue moved
dom: :nd attacked Genenl Walhiogton.
Gentlemen of the e-ty ad eounuy, it is in your power, b spirited
ilnpmvemem of the pesent eirenmhnce, to turn it to : ral : vantage:
Have is not weake: than before. and every shot will contribute to reduce
thim. You m nose immedinely intereltd then lay other put of the
eontinent; your Am. it at Me; it is not so vith the genenl cause; you
are devoted by the enemy to under and destruction: It is the encou
ngement which Bone, the ' of Hunduen, hu promised hie my.
Tuu— circmntbneed, you my save ymselva hy : manly ufihnce. hot
p.: can have no hope!- anyothercondua. ] nevek yet knewmhnve
Geneul, quy panosthemny. osieenormen. mates heart. and!
have seen them in eirmnhnm : thovsmd time: nor: trying than the
present. it is only those that are not in action. thet feel lengom- end
hezviness. andthc be. my cond i! Qio lo N- N, fl—lp
wrrk of it. ed], M _ ud _ . .
Our am: no. MH flhgve "! . "ma
rest, tixuugg not of "lour. Our m tumefied "N'
us to give them every tsiuppoflin QMWIW MMZ lum
day, on which the bsetv of this city depends, ;: light n 'ofibk. sile
mzmber. Gentlemen, that we bIIt forcn—bodh-h tho MN
x'ssuhwfld of Phihdelphn, 'lnd is them bet!!! si
arrive, this city will pc saved, and the my'hflyn—C. Youlnn
tco much At flute to minate. You ought not to thmk mbunpna.
mzucr, but to tpriog to action :: once. Other swithe b'nhhfl,
lnd have likewise dn-sscn off.:he invaden. Now OUI !— M n.- i.
come, and perlsitps the finishing lrcke is usuvd sat n. Whom
look duck on the danger: we have been (and from, an te" on the
successes we have been bkfid wnh, it woquc Hot cA- h he idle
ot- despair. ss - , .
1 close this Jpet with A short oddrcss to Gencal Ran; You, Sir,
are only hngessfing out the per'wdssthrsit shall hrinz Iishj mixing.
You have yet scatce began upon the war, and the li'th: yo- n": th
fafles will your trouble: thicken. What you now mio; is on] K'ctlsi'
from ruin; an invinlion to delh uctio't; abmefhing that wilsicd
our ddimnce at your upcnce. We know the cause we Ire
in, and though : pnfliouate fondncss fot- tt mapmnke up grieve;:
injury which threatens is, yet, when the mount: ctwmssjn one,
determinuion to duty returns. We are not the Mig- flamosab,
garly tyuitt, nor the air ging flatteren of no jnfamon m. We m
not mond by the gloomy sum: of & wmhleszK'u-g. but b show
glad of genemuc patriotism. W'c fight not to tula", or :. si;
country free, and to make room uyon the earth for hood! men to live in.
in such : cause in an sure we in right; and we leave to you the Hpir.
ing uflcfiton of being the too] of : misesiablc tyrant.
COMMON SENSE.
Phihdelphia. Stpt. it, am.
Wl LLlAMbBU RG, September 26.
Cap) ef- hmrfiurbcmmrof M-rvland u buExe-ellnqrbc-GM— -;
:? WR Munore' , shtqu : e'dotl', 84?th 18, 1771. si
'IKHE tall of the enemy't Geethve j-R passed the mouth ofthit river.
and e en, ne we hue been informed by deserten, un
deretden forDelaware;_ itr-ay bematerul for you to know the whole
are gonedown, end therefore send this by express. Our lated account:
from PNWM its neighboortnode are by Gentlemen who come
from thence. Wadington't bed quarter: are :t the Cit saven,
in Philadelpsh; our army, except the light horse, :resaid to he on that
side the river Sehuylkillg our lose not more than Goo, cheesetny't fron
rzootoooooz twooftheirGe-enloffieen killed, and a third ba: : leg .
hmken. and empotmd; that the enemy had made no movement ascensi
ee so lm nSundz night. lt is slid, in a letter 'oslah Saturday from
Hence to myself, that theenemy had sent to New York for a mistere
ment; th: 1 soo of General Ptmunss army were ordered to Philadel—
phie, anduoo jetts! militia called for, and expected. A Gentleman
of this place, who eft Philadelphia on Sunday, inform: he that the
rjoo andthepoo unexpected tobein there on Monday. General
Howe may pofflbly wlit for hia reinforeement, or we may be unfonw '
nate. ] would submit to your consideration whether it may not even
tually be of ingnlar service to march : port of your militia, who ! un
derhnd are already nipped end collected ! shi" ulh forward all the
militia that I can. ] , a ] did, the matter thou d be finished in our
favour before the militiz en set !up from such (liances, the eredil
which will be derived to Amenca from the mlhtia being every where in
motion, will be'wen-orth the expence. it it expected, in Philadel in.
that General Bnlgoyne is well drubbed, but is not confirmed. na.
Sir, with pent " , your mofl obedient humble servant,
snGdnr—r IRIY- THOMAS ]OHNSON.
By . letter from : Gentlemon at Edenton, we are inforhred, that two
at the enemy'a brigt have got over Ocncock bar, and are now Why in
the Sound; and that they have taken seven] vessels.
Mvmismu em'md th': Am! for want of no- pad have :: plate
in our next.
Wruunnunc, quder ", 1771.
TRAYED "ny, on Vein: lq se'ennigkt. from them ldjoining the
Hospita] in this City, I LACK l-IORSE, branded on the neat
Buttock ] G, : She in tus Foreheed. has a son Back, a little White on
his NuhMa 8 ' Tlil. [will 've FOUR DOLLARSQo any Per
on who 't" desire to me. or to es. Dim- & lium, at the Print—
ng Ofie. WVAN. Lint. in the French Co-pny.