The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle

PHILADELPHIA, July 14.

The News being spread that the Merchants of New-York had departed from their Non-Importation Agreement, and had resolved to import every Thing, except Tea and such Articles upon which a Duty is, or shall hereafter be laid, the Inhabitants of this City and Suburbs, and a great Number from the County, assembled at the State-House, and having nominated Joseph Fox, Esq; Chairman, entered into the following Resolves.

1st. Resolved, That the Non-Importation Agreement, entered into by the Merchants and Traders of the Colonies, is a safe, peaceable and constitutional Way of asserting our Rights, and if persisted in, there is Reason to believe it will produce the desired Effect, and therefore ought to be considered as a Bulwark of our Liberty.

2d. Resolved, That the good Effects of this Measure depend upon Perseverance, and that the Strength of the Colonies consists in their Union.

3d. Resolved, That a Breach of the Agreement at present, cannot be owing to any Want of real Necessaries, especially in the Northern Colonies, and that the partial Repeal of the American Revenue-Act, is no just Foundation for deviating from the Agreement entered into, as the Claim of Right to tax us, without our Consent, is still kept up, and the Duty on Tea retained, as a Test of that Right.

4th. Resolved, That the Alteration adopted by a Majority of the Inhabitants of the City of New-York, is a sordid and wanton Defection from the common Cause, and that by that Defection they have, as much as in them lies, weakened the Union of the Colonies, wounded the public Character of America, strengthened the Hands of our Enemies, and encouraged them to prosecute their Designs against our common Liberty.

5th. Resolved, That all the bad Consequences that may ensue to the Liberties of America, by their Defection, are chargeable upon a prevailing Faction at New-York.

6th. Resolved, That as a Testimony to the World of our Disapprobation of the late Measure adopted by that prevailing Faction, we will break off all commercial Intercourse with N.York, so far as not to purchase of any of the Inhabitants of the Colony of N. Y. any Goods, except Alkaline Salt, Skins, Furs, Flax and Hemp, until they return to their Agreement, or until the Act of 7th of Geo. III. is totally repealed. And we pledge ourselves each to the other, that if we know of any Person attempting to bring into this City, or Province, any Goods from New-York, except those above enumerated, that we will immediately give Information of them, to the Merchants Committee, that their Names may be published in the NewsPapers, Provided always, that every Inhabitant of this Town and Province, who has Effects at New-York, may have Liberty to remove them from thence, provided it be done within six Weeks from this Date.

The following Address was handed about previous to the above Meeting.

To the Inhabitants of the City and County of Philadelphia.

Gentlemen,

YOU are come here this Day to determine whether you will be FreeMen or Slaves. The New-Yorkers have betrayed a Meanness & Cowardice in deserting us in the present important Juncture, which wants a Name. May Infamy be their Portion! And may the Name of a Bute, a Grenville, a Bernard and a Yorker hereafter be synonymous Words. Let no Arguments from Necessity or Interest have any Weight with you, to lead you to tread their Footsteps.---Much more is incumbent upon us than ever. It is our Business to support our sinking Country where they have stabbed it. Let us remember we are Pennsylvanians---and Oh! let us not sully that illustrious Name by an Act that will bring Infamy and Slavery upon our Country. The Eyes of all Europe,---nay of the whole World are fixed upon us. Heaven itself cannot be disinterested in the Event of the present Contest. Let us be firm,--- let us be united, --and Success will crown our honest and manly Efforts to save ourselves, and our Country from Destruction.

A PENNSYLVANIAN.