The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

From the Continental Journal:

THE humble petition of the late new emission with respect is addres'd to thee—

As the old currency does languishing lie, which yields to the tories good sport.

With sad apprehension we have cause to mention, our fears of our own dissolution,

For the antient Papyrus our common grandsire is, and tender is our constitution.

Prevent then our fate, ye doctors of state, and shew yourselves friends to the nation

We begin to grow faint, and our cause of complaint is the want of a free circulation.

Our dad old emission, was in this condition; who true to your cause did abide:

Tho' by the foe taken, his faith was not shaken, and never would turn to their side.

He assisted to take Burgoyne at the Lake, and follow'd in each expedition:

Wherever he went, would spend and be spent and grows poor since he took a commission.

Our strangers esteem'd old emission a friend. and receiv'd him with kindest embraces

But being confin'd. he sicken'd and pin'd, and was pack'd off with many wry faces.

All our friends prove unkind, and grow jealous we find; like prisoners we sigh and despair,

But your honest farmers appear most to harm us, by refusing the country air.

Most worthy Fathers, we on you rely, and you great sponsors, all our wants supply—

Pay one year's board, and then each quarter pay, we'll cheer your friends, and drive your foes away.

NEW EMISSION.

Plymouth, August 27, 1781.