The Virginia Gazette

To the PRINTER.
Northampton, March 24, 1766.
SIR,

As you have informed the publick you will be obliged to any person who will transmit any authentic pieces, I take the liberty of sending you a copy of the order of this county court, which I flatter myself you will give a place in our next week's paper.

I am extremely easy about the censures that some of our high prerogative Gentlemen may bestow on it, and only hint to them that the spirit of liberty which gave rise to the order still subsists, and I trust in God will, to the end of time. Our clerk now issues M, &c. as usual: A noble example. and, I am to say, an example that ought to be followed by every court in this country, be their distinctions or dignity what they will.

Whoever has had the effrontery to assert that the Par--t of Br--t n can, or have constitutionally taxed America, and that Americans have no right to oppose the Stamp Act, is an advocate for passive obedience, and an enemy to this country. How could the effeminate and dastardly inhabitants of the East more effectually show their abject condition than by tamely complying with whatever their imperious lords and masters ordained them. Hence such a thought, ye sons of liberty. Show Br--t--n you have a sense of your wrongs. It is unmanly, it is ignominious, to yield to such impositions, which confirms on us the condition of slavery. The acts of a Br---sh Par---t whenever they shall be found to be arbitrary and illegal, are to me equally tyrannical with the mandates of a Sophi; and ought to be, with the same honest indignation, rejected. I honour his present Majesty King George the third; I despise sycophants, and all kind of servility; I contend for an exemption from taxes laid on without my consent.

I am, with great good will to my country,
Your humble servant,
NORTHAMPTONENSIS.