The Lambertville press. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1858-1???, 1859-09-01
@i0ataphies.
[FoR THE PRESS.
William Davidson.
BY ". d.
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TcoNrINUED.l
The following is an extract from an address
of Congress- to the Several States, dated, May
18th, 1919, which was written by Mr.. Dickin-
son:
" Infatuated as your enemies have been from
the beginning of this contest, do you imagine they
can now fatter themselves with hope of con-
quering you, unless you are false to yourselves?
"When unprepared, undsciplined, and un-
supported, you opposed their fleets and armies
in full conjoined force, then, if at any time was
conquest to be apprehended. Yet, what pro-
gress towards it hare their violent and inces-
SAINT efforts made
Judge from their own conduct Having de-
voted you to bondage, and after vainly wasting
their blood and treasure in the dishonorable en-
terprise, they deigned at length to offer terms
of accommodation, with respectful addresses, to
that once despised body, the Congress, whose
humble supplications, only for peace, liberty and
safety, they contemptously rejected, under pre-
tence of its being an uncons titutional assembly!
Nay more DESTROYS of seducing you into devil
alton from the paths of rectitude, from which
they had so far and SO rashly wandered, they
made most specious offers to tempt you int a
violation ofyour faith given to your illustrious
ally Their arts were as unavailing as their
arms
Fooled again, and stung with rage, imbittered
by envy, they had no alternative, but to renounce
the inglorious and ruinous controversy, or to re-
sumo their former modes of prosecuting it.
They choose the latter. Again the savages are
stimulated to horrid massacres of women and
children, and domestics to the murder of their
masters.
Again our brave and unhappy brethren are
doomed to miserable deaths, in jails and prison.
ships. To complete the sanguinary system all
the "EXTREMITIES of WAR" are by au-
thority denounced against you.
"Piously endeavor to derive this consolation
from their remorseless fury, that "the Father of
Mercies looks down with disapprobation on
such audacious defances of his holy laws and
be further comforted with recoIIecting that the
arms assumed by you in your righteous cause have,
not been sullied by any unjustifable seventies.
"Your enemies desparing, however, as it seeps
of the success Of their united forces against anr
main army, have divided them, as if their design
was to harrass you by predatory, desultory OPP
erations.
IF you are assiduous in improving opportuni.
ties, Sarotog0 may not be the only spot on this
continent to give new denomination to the
bafaed troops of nation, impiously priding her.
self in notions of her omnipotence
Rouse yourselves, therefore, that this cam
paign may finish the great work you have so
nobly carried on for several years past What
) nation ever engaged in such contest, under
such a complication of disadvantages, so soon
surmounted many of them, and in so short a peri
cd of time had so certain prospect of speedy
and happy conclusion. We viii venture to pro-
nounce, that so remarkable an instance exists
not in the annals of mankind We well remem-
Der what you said at the commencement of this
war. You said the immense difference between
your circumstances, and those of your enemies,
and you knew the quarrel must decide oBuo less
than your lives, liberties, and estates | Allthese
you greatly put to hazard, resolving rather to
die freeman than to live slaves Justice viii
oblige the impartial world to confess. You
have uniformly acted on the same generous
principle. Consider how much you have DONE
and how comparatively little remains to be done
to crown you with saceess
"Perseyere; and you insure peace, freedom,
safety, glory, sovereignty, and felicity to your
selves, your children and your children'S children.
Encouraged by favors already received from
infinite goodness, gratefully acknowledging them,
earnestly imploring their continuance, constant
ly endeavoring to draw them down on your
heads by an amendment of your lives, and con-
formity to the divine will, humby confding in
the protection so often and wonderfully expert
enced, vigorously employ the means placed by
Providence in your hands, for completing your
labors
Fill up your battalions; be prepared in ev.-
cry part to repel the incursions of your enemies
place your several quotas in the continental
treasury; lend money for public uses sink the
remissions of your respective states provided
efectually for expediting the conveyance of sup
plies for your armies and fleets, and for your al
lies; prevent the produce from being monopo-
lized; effectually superintend the behaviour of
public officers diligently promote piety, virtue,
brotherly love, learning, frugality, and modera-
ton and may you be approved before Almighty
God, worthy of those blessing we doyoutly wish
you to enjoy"
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