The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle

LIBERTY! That dearest of NAMES: and PROPERTY, that best of CHARTERS, give an additional, an inexpressible Charm to every delightful Object. See how the Sun has beautified the Western Clouds: has arrayed them in Crimson, and skirted them with Gold. Such a Refinement of our domestic Bliss, as Property; such an Improvement of our publick Privileges, is LIBERTY:---When the Lamp of Day shall entirely withdraw his Beams, there will still remain the same Collection of floating Vapours. But O! how changed, how gloomy! The Carnation blushes no more; the golden Edgings are gone; and all the lovely Things are lost in a leaden-coloured lowring Sadness. Such would be the Aspect of all these Scenes of Beauty, all these Abodes of Pleasure, if exposed continually to the Caprice of arbitrary Power, or held in a State of abject and cringing Dependance.