The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Boston [Mass.]) 1770-1772, 1771-08-01

SEEsU 4 tAA INal addfSllcS IcPicte Win
@R N&sN iuch ien;iments as your un
SSSSag parsieed behaviour moit
ESEG9R naturally inlpires, pour in
upon you from al quarters.
The pselens sddrels from the metropolis
of the Brsifh American empire, cannot fail
70 CRAFTY your hgh~!t ambition, as it means
GncereIy to declare The etfimssion in which
you are held in this sud the filter colonies in
New England. And.
7. We canno; fIafScisnt.y admire your po-
litical addEefs in moulding the whole leglila-
tive and executive bodies of North Carolina
70 exactly TO your win, that notwithfsnd-
ing the extreme poverty of that infant and
mIferable colony, they have rendered you the
pofefor of the frR temporal PALACE, ever
heard of in North-America.
4. We equally venerate your gratitude and
jufice, to thofe your chofen friends, and in
ftruments, in the encouragement, aHiRance
and protection you afforded to them all and
fingular, in every lpecies of oppreHion, rob-
berry and litigious yexation, with which they
were GRACEFULLY pIeaied TO yift the poor ig-
norant back IettIers ofyOur government, un-
doubtedly created for no other end than to
Iabour for you and your numerous banditti of
fcoundrels, jufly reputed the Grsg, Of the hu-
man fpecies.
3.Nor does your fenatorial, come whit
ihort of your political character, in our
oAeem. How neceflary was that notable
aa of AAembly paAed by yourfelf, your tools
and creatures, to make oppofition to your
unfuferable tyranny and undiiguifed villainy,
hgh-treaion, and puniihsble accordingly
Your patriotifm will furely be handed down
unrivalIed to future ages, for the wife and
worthy feps you have taken, to quell thoie
dangerous and rebcllious infurgents, only by
the huy and arms Of their 0sVn country.
4. But as iftheie were wanting fourth de-
gree of companion or fnper- fnperlatve man.
ner of expecting our amazement, we are
afonilled aImof into 6leHce on the con-
temptation of your military 6rmnefs, relolu-
ton, and address III Who but yourielf could
have fteeled his heart againfi every propoial
of accommodation, which, the remoteit
refpea to any thing FeafonabIe could fuggef,
and Unified to the IaR, that the only terms
you had TO afford, were gibbet, butchers
knife, and fire. Who could have refolved
with half the number ofmeer mercenarics to
fight an army Of defPerate men drove to the
lar extremity, and who but the 6draif Ge-
neral 9rysu could have contrived to get the
bSods sftbs fdt7iOs*, in huddle together,
and then pour in the mott dreadful FIRE, from
every piece that could be brought to bear
upon them, and afterwards order the COM
pofers of his Ts DeRm to afcribe the effects of
his internal perhdy to the lpecial interpoGtion
Of divine providence
Ages unborn, believe me, Sir, will recount
shefe feVeral extraordinary emanations of
your uncommon capacity, in civil, Isri0l,
military and religious life, with an emotion,
which no Marius, Syla, Czlar, or even
Pontius Plate, could ever raiie and TO con-
clude, permit me, great Sir, to allure you
that il is the ardent with Of tens of thoufands,
that your royal matter may Be infinitely in
formed of all your mighty deeds, and led
into thorough acquaintance with the gee