The Freeman's Journal, Or, New Hampshire Gazette

[Vol. I.]

Mr. Dearborn,

If you think the following worthy a place in your useful paper, you have the liberty to give it one.

'Tis astonishing to see daily, the insults offered by the TORIES, and unnoticed by the Committee, in a more particular manner, since the news of the skirmish on Long-Island, on the first report, they had their meeting and a dinner provided, to congratulate each other on the importance of the day; and if common fame speaks truth, they have their particular toasts on such occasions; their significant nods and smiles at each other as they pass by, and in their very countenances it is as plain to be seen as the sun in its meridian: they have the effrontery to assert, that it is much worse than reported, that it's so bad, that the sons of Liberty are afraid to let it be known, lest the people should be discouraged.

Is not this intolerable? It's a matter of fact, that they have the first news on every event, (and that they propagate every intelligence they receive, taking care to calculate it, so as to serve their own turn; it's beyond a matter of doubt that they keep up a secret correspondence thro the colonies in order to comfort one another, to keep up their sinking spirits, and to propagate falsehoods.)

The committees of the county of Middlesex in the Massachusetts have done honor to themselves, and have set a noble example, in their resolves, at their meeting at Concord a few days since, and are worthy of imitation, which breathe nothing but spirit, firmness and humanity, for which they have ever been distinguished, and 'tis the wish of every honest upright man, that their laudable resolves may be universally adopted.

M. NAMORA.

Portsmouth Sept. 18, 1776.