The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle

PHILADELPHIA, Decem. 12.

By the captains Reese and Davidson, who arrived last week from Barbados, we learn, that the inhabitants of that Island have tamely submitted to the loss of their Liberty and Property. by a favourable acceptance of STAMPED PAPERS.

Some bills of lading are already come from thence marked with the BRAND of OPPRESSION.

--Had one spark of the spirit of Liberty exited in that island, certainly the many noble Examples lately set by the Sons of LIBERTY in these northern climes, would have roused it to Action, and not suffered those people by their pusillanimity to draw on the resentment of their fellow sufferers.

To be successful in the opposition to this severe law, all the people who are to be affected by its operation, should be unanimous ; and when any of them prove degenerate, it behoves the remainder to resent it by every means in their power.

The means are now assuredly in the power of these colonies, by withholding from them the provisions that are necessary for their support ; and indeed the very nature of their crime entails this punishment, as no individual can be secure in his
property that ends thither a ship with untamped clearances. And it is remarkable that those very people, who so readily yield obedience to the arbitrary dictates of their superiors, have ever been vigorous in executing the powers of their government ; and in every instance, where accident, ignorance, or the new adopted policy of a British Minister has enabled them, they have not failed to plunder the poor North-Americans of that property they had justly and hardly earned by the sweat of their brows, whilst these very sons of rapine had been wallowing in ease and plenty.