The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle

Extract of a Letter from Boston, in New-England.

WHAT is now the State of Society in the Town of Boston, that assumes to itself the Name of the Metropolis of America? No respect is paid here to Government; no sense of Subordination; and from the want of some superior Power to cling to for protection, every man is suspicious of his neighbour; whilst a few Demagogues harangue the People, and under the name of Liberty, lead them on to actions of violence, cruelty and oppression; and Society seems altogether without order, without government; the Magistrate shrinks from his duty, and the Demagogues presume to dictate to the Judges on the seat of justice. Whilst the Officers of the Crown are insulted, assaulted, and abused, and the peaceable and quiet Subject, who would pay obedience to the Law, is persecuted, oppressed, bore down, and banished: Amidst all this, Government contents itself with passing faint Resolves that are ridiculed by every petty Assembly, which pass in return Counter-resolves of equal weight, as the first are unsupported; and the time that Government wastes in vain deliberations, is employed by the Colonists themselves in cementing their union, and strengthening themselves in a Resistance to the Authority of Great-Britain.