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Portsmouth, Greenland, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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This editorial denounces British parliamentary actions, including violations of election freedoms in London, the Middlesex Affair, judicial usurpations, unconstitutional American taxation, and the Quebec Act, as evidence of court corruption endangering English and colonial liberties. It urges vigilance in electing honest representatives and foresees unified colonial resistance.
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Can a Doubt then be entertained, that the glorious Liberties and Privileges of the English Nation must expire under the Hands of traiterous Parricides, who have insidiously dared to give such vital Wounds to the Constitution, unless they are immediately rescued from their Assassinations? The Time, however, is happily near when the Powers invested with these Panders to Despotism will die: And it cannot, surely be doubted but that they will then take effectual Precautions for the Preservation and Security of that Liberty which their Ancestors have transmitted as the most inestimable of all Inheritances, and be exceedingly careful in the Choice of their future Representatives, that a Trust of such high Importance as the Guardianship of English Freedom may be placed in MORE HONEST and WORTHY Hands.
The Intention of the Quebec Bill was avowedly to intimidate the Colonies from defending their religious and civil Liberties, by extending the French Popish Power at the Back of all the Protestant Colonies, to be ready for some black and dreadful Design.
This will naturally unite those who were before Neuter, afraid of joining their Trade, and not so willing to relieve their Protestant Brethren; but the Case is now altered, their Religion, as well as their Laws and Liberties, are in equal Danger. They must and will be unanimous, when every Thing that is dear and valuable to them is at stake. They must now resist: "You will make them mad," as the Bishop of St. Asaph says in his Speech intended to have been spoke in the House of Lords, but it will not be a sudden Fit of Madness; it cannot be ever forgiven by them, or their latest Posterity.
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Criticism Of British Violations Of Liberties And The Quebec Act
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Strongly Anti Administration And Pro Liberty
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