The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle

To the Publishers of the New-Hampshire Gazette
Great-Britain's Policy, made America's Mistake.

From the Time of our first Settlement here, till the Stamp-Act, (a few Acts of Parliament excepted) England never departed from their true Interest, relative to America, by granting us agreeable to Justice, and the eternal Nature & Reason of Things, a free Trade, our Liberties & Properties secure. And while they did so, all the Money we could possibly get, from all other Parts of the world, we sent directly to them, neglected to Manufacture what we easily might, and imitated them in every Extravagancy, and in the use, or rather abuse of many unnecessary Articles ; and thus the more populous we became, the richer England, and the poorer America : and had they continued our natural Rights, till we had become as populous and potent, as the most sanguine Imagination can conjecture, we should with the greatest Pleasure, sent them all our Money, and thought it our Honor, to acknowledge them our Superiors. Thus in the way of a just, and equitable Trade, they would have got our All, pleasing to us, and infinitely more advantageous to them, than G--nv--ll's Scheme.

Great-Britain's Mistake, America's Wisdom.

The Parliament seems to take Power, to be lawful Authority--Armies and Ships of Force, to be legal Right---Artillery and their Appurtenances, to be Reason and Argument.

Agreeable to which Principles, whatsoever has been, or shall be, is lawful and right, for no Action ever was, or will be done, without Power to do it. From the same Principles it is evident, we cannot Reason with them, for want of the above Arguments.

To extract Good out of these great Evils--- never dispute the Right of Parliament, to lay what Duty they please, on any Article they please--the Vendor has an indisputable Right to stipulate the Conditions of Sale. (necessaries of Life excepted) and the Vendee to purchase, or not as he pleases : Whatsoever Article, the Parliament lays a Duty on, that we cannot Manufacture, do without it, or substitute something in its Stead. Discountenance and punish Idleness, Debauchery and Luxury, of every kind. Encourage Industry, Frugality, and Manufacturies of every kind. Use no unnecessary Article ; in particular, no more of any sort of Spirits, than is necessary for Health or comfort ; the last will be a greater saving than the disuse of Ribbons and Tea.

By these few salubrious Rules, you will soon find, many that are now in Poverty and Disgrace, and a dead Weight on the Public, become respectable, useful Members of Society.

Our Export will soon over balance our Import, and from our present State of Bankruptcy, we will soon be, what England thinks we now are, Opulent. Our Paper-War, (that otherwise may produce a real one) will cease : All whom it may concern, will know by Experience, that the Three Million Sterling per Annum, which England has received from America, for sundry Years last past, and in a few Years would have vastly exceeded that Sum, in way of equitable Trade, is preferable to England's Maintaining Commissioners here ; for in case we purchase no Article from them, which they lay a Duty on, they must pay those they employ. Every Body except Enemies to the English Constitution, will acknowledge these Rules are just and reasonable, which Enemies, will if possible, persuade England to adopt, such Measures, as will effectually ruin the Empire.

Dear Americans take no part, in the Murder of a Constitution. the best calculated of any under Heaven, to make King and Subject happy. Be dutiful to the best of Kings. Practice the foregoing Rules, and all will be Elysium.

PHILANTROPIA.