The Virginia Gazette

To the memory of THOMAS HUTCHINSON
governor of the province of Massachusetts Bay.
He was descended from an ancient race
of American worthies,
and was educated in the principles of
virtue and religion:
But alas! what availed the renown of
his ancestors,
and the holy precepts of his parents!
He remembered no more of the former,
and practised no more of the latter,
than were sufficient to raise him to
the first offices, and honours of the
government.
He was an enemy to
virtue, liberty, and his country.
Let antiquity be dumb, nor
reproach with obloquy, her
Catalines, Caligulas, and Neros,
since mankind are here furnished
with an instance of depravity which
includes with their guilt, the
basest hypocrisy.
American traveller,
forbear to open his sepulchre, and to avenge
on his ashes the injuries he did
to thy country.
Hale vitas did not act so
in his graveolence.
He did not aim on going
to abridge the English liberties...,
and to destroy the charter of his
native province.
Let posterity remember with gratitude
the illustrious
Dr. Franklin (not
less successful in disarming political
than natural clouds of their mischief)
for his discovery.
Although this treacherous governor
was defended by one of the most artful
British counsellors, yet he was
condemned by a jury of all the
freemen in Britain and America,
to be hanged, and burned,
May 3d, 1774, in the city of Philadelphia, in the
presence of many thousand spectators,
Who, while they exulted in his
punishment,
lamented that he could suffer but
once
to expiate the high treason he
had committed against
his
country.