The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-05-04

 lowing news, which appeared in the London Advertiser, July T, 1775.
 "* Two or three hundred men had orders to drive off the hye-seocK from Hogg and Noddles Island (near Boston) <. They drove of two fine English stations, two colts, anu three COWS; killed fifteen horses, two colts, and three cows, burned large barn full of salt, hay, and an oio farmhouse *sA .. They then retreat ed to Hogg Island. And drove off the stock thereon, viz. between three and four hundred sheep ana lambs, some cows, horses, Aetc.
 On the whole it appeared from the dispatches in English newspapers, that our American forefathers were desperate lot and that conditions m the Colonies were as bad, if not worse than they are represented as being to- day in Ireland.
 The London Daily Advertiser for July 19, 1775, gives it's readers the following information, which has very familiar sound when compared with pronounceInentS from England of similar plots in Ireland today. s'The discovery of a. diabolical plot to murder almost every officer in the garrison (at Boston, has occasioned part of US to camp immediately, the officers of the remainder are obliged to beSin. the same barracks with their men. The rascals were to have made 8 sham attack at night upon the lines, and the inhabitants in town were to have posted parties at the lodgings of all the officers, and murdered them as they ran out on the alarm The same newspaper gave informa- tion on July 2, HTS, that the An1eId- can Colonies were resorting to coer- Cion to obtain recruits to their ranks. t"The word with the Sons of LiHb- erty, as they call themselves, is Join or Die," said the paper.
 That the American patriots were such terrible desperados that they did not hesitate to shoot down in cold | blood peaceful messengers of the King, is evident from dispatch in the Journal on August z, 1775, which informed its readers:
 l t%We hear that one Porter, an at 1 torney at Salem, was lately detected at CoIloss, in conveying a, letter from T. Gage to Governor Carfeton at Que beo <: Porter, in attempting to escape, was shot through the back 1 and expired inm metiia tely."
 If this had happened today in Ire 1 land it would have been referred to as bloody murder.
 As in Ireland today martial law was instituted. The London Daily Adver- tiser of July IS, T775, contains General l Cages proclamation issued at Boston to the 'fnfa.tEDated muFtitudes'' who | have allowed themselves ito be con- ducted by certain we'll known ineen- diaries and traitors In t9ris case the | infatuated m18lsitudeS'' were AHNeri- cans not Irish, and the ''incendiaries and traitors were Washington and his compatriots, not de Valera, and the patriots of Ireland.
 It was January 10, IT'S, when the | same Journal gave news that Ear Dunmore, Royal Governor of Virginia had proclaimed martial Jaw against { ''body of armed men, unlawfuIly as sembIed.'' That proclamation reaG i'm part:
 "* the peace and good order O this Colony may be again restored which the ordinary courts of Civi law is unable to effect"
 Compare this with A. Bonar Law. utterance in the House of Commons April 13, 1920, in which he deetaret that in Ireland repr ressive measure were to be continued until "decen living conditions are restored"
 On July 6, 1775, the Daily Adver tIser printed the following procla Ination, issued by the Earl of Dun more, Governor of Virginia Suibst ute the name of de Valera for tha of Patrick Henry, and Lord Frenc for that of DTlnnlore, and you have
 typical Lord French proclamation ( today:
 Whereas. have been uniformed
 from undoubted authority, that a cel
 tain PARICK HENRY of the Count
 of Hanover, and a nunnbr of de1ude
 followers, have taken up arms, chose
 their officers, and stiling themse9Nt
 as an independent company, ha1
 marchedSout of their county, encamI
 ed and put themselves in posture
 war; and have written and dispatcht letters to divers parts of the countr exciting the people to join in the
 outrages and rebellious practices, n the great terror of his Majestys su 'e jects, and in defiance of the law al 's government; and committed other al le of violence, particularly in extort from his Majesty-s Receiver Gener 'L the sum of 33O under pretence of I ;, placing the powder I thought prop a to order from the Magazine; when = it undeniahly appears that there is