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The Virginia Gazette
Williamsburg, Virginia
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Rumors suggest British troops under General Gage in Boston will be withdrawn and American colonies blockaded by sea to coerce compliance with Parliament's acts. The report urges colonial unity to resist, emphasizing that division would lead to slavery, and notes that current inconveniences are temporary if union is maintained.
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It is to be hoped, however, that, in spite of all our open and secret enemies, the people will have virtue and sense enough to baffle any such designs of the Ministry, by recurring to the old Dutch motto, United we stand, by dividing we fall, and thereby preserve their dearest rights and privileges, a deprivation of which would reduce them to a state of slavery, too horrible a sound to an American ear.
The present times are certainly very inconvenient, and to be deprecated; but there is this consolation, that they cannot last long, if we but preserve our union. The conveniences of life we have in abundance, and a proper attention to manufactures will clothe us all, in good homespun, preferable, many think, to foreign frippery.
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A report has been for some time current, that the troops at Boston under General Gage are to be sent home, with all the Crown officers in America, and that the several colonies are to be blocked up by sea; with the view, it is to be presumed, to frighten us into compliance with the tyrannical acts of the British Parliament, by creating dissensions and divisions amongst us. It is to be hoped, however, that, in spite of all our open and secret enemies, the people will have virtue and sense enough to baffle any such designs of the Ministry, by recurring to the old Dutch motto, United we stand, by dividing we fall, and thereby preserve their dearest rights and privileges, a deprivation of which would reduce them to a state of slavery, too horrible a sound to an American ear. The present times are certainly very inconvenient, and to be deprecated; but there is this consolation, that they cannot last long, if we but preserve our union. The conveniences of life we have in abundance, and a proper attention to manufactures will clothe us all, in good homespun, preferable, many think, to foreign frippery.