The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle

At a large Meeting of the respectable POPULACE, held at the Town of Pomfret, in the County of Windham, on the 25th Day of Dec. 1765.

UNANIMOUSLY agreed to the following RESOLVES, to be inserted in the New London GAZETTE.

1st. HAIL Allegiance, and the strictest Loyalty is ever due, from the People of the American Colonies, to our Rightful Sovereign King GEORGE the Third: and our best Wishes to the Royal Succession in the illustrious House of Hanover: And that we will bear the highest Indignation to any that shall take Advantage of our present Situation, to oppose the lawful Authority of this Colony to obstruct the free Course of Justice, or to injure any Man in Person or Property, in violation of the good and wholesome Laws of the same, and hold him an Enemy to his King and Country.

2d. That God and Nature brought us into the World Freemen, and by Solemn Charter Compact and Agreement came under the English Constitution; the Rights and Privileges of which, we are as natural Heirs, as to our Fathers Inheritance; nor shall it be in the Power of any to deprive us of them, but with our Lives.

3d. That we have ever unmolestedly enjoyed (except some grievous Acts of Trade, &c.) our just Rights and Privileges, as the true born Sons of Liberty, until the oppressive and detestable Stamp Act was deeply formed and fatally levelled at the very Root and Foundation of our dear Rights and Enjoyment: in Life, that's worth living for.

4th. That all those who were accessory in forming said Act, are unfriendly to the Constitution; by which alone our gracious King reigns, and we his loyal Subjects enjoy our Rights: and every Person who endeavours the execution of the same, is a most implacable Enemy to our public Weal and Tranquility.

5th. That whereas our Stamp Master was appointed Agent for this Colony at the Court of Great Britain, with Confidence that he would exert his utmost endeavours to prevent said Act; nevertheless he returned the executioner of those Evils he was sent to defend us from: And notwithstanding his solemn Resignation, and Engagements to the contrary, has and still obstinately persists to plot the ruin and total overthrow of his native Country by all the ways and means his Malice and Craft suggests, or his unbridled Audacity can Attempt; to which Country he is allied by the tenderest Ties and strongest Bonds of Affection and Gratitude: And thereby has set his own Interest in Competition with the Interest of his Country, forfeited all privilege in and protection from the same; is no longer to be believed, his Friendship no more to be trusted, nor his malignant Designs any longer to be endured; and that assuredly, unless he instantly desist plotting our ruin, writing any thing prejudicial to the Government, or even sedition to the same, he shall forthwith feel the Weight of his injured Country's righteous indignation, and know by sad Experience all the Horrors of falling a defenceless Prey into the Hands of a free and enraged Populace; whose Bosoms glow with the true Spirit of British Liberty; and account not their Lives dear in the defence of Freedom.

6th. That as to the matters of Charge in the aforesaid Article against Mr. Ingersoll; we challenge him to deny and vindicate himself against them in any of our public Meetings: and hereby give him the great Assurance that if he will come, he shall have as fair Hearing as he can desire, and safe protection from any Insult, as to his Person and Property, while with us at our Meetings.

7th. That Mr. Ingersoll's Letters be read publickly in every County in the Colony in their publick Meetings, if they see fit.

8th. That Copies of Mr. Ingersoll's Letters be given out to some one Person in each County to be by him kept for the benefit and use of the People in the same.

9th. That we will most critically inspect every Avenue or Way by which the Stamp Papers may be introduced into the Colony, and on apprehension of danger to give immediate Notice of the same to the respectable Populace.

10th. That we do earnestly recommend to the Civil Authority of this Colony to proceed in Business as usual: as our cessation and delay of Business will be construed an implicit acknowledgement of the validity of the Stamp Act. and to that Purpose we recommend a Piece wrote by a master of Reason and a Friend to Liberty in Pennsylvania. and inserted in the New London Gazette of the 20th of this instant. Also we do fully concur with and adopt the Resolves of the County of New London the 10th of this instant.