The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle

BOSTON, Nov. 25.

To the PRINTERS.

By giving the following a Place in your impartial Paper you will oblige some of your Readers, and among them your humble Servant,

Y. Z.

For a long Time past there has been a talk of the importers of Goods from Great-Britain stopping their hands; as this gave me great pleasure, you may be assur'd I was highly gratified when I found the worthy merchants and traders of New-York, had actually agreed upon, and pass'd several resolves for that purpose; in this let us of the Massachusetts-Bay follow their good example, as they have ours in affairs of more importance; and let all the merchants on the continent chearfully join in the same thing, and thereby shew those in Great-Britain, that we can live as well without them as they can without us, and that unless this abominable S--p-A--t is forever repeal'd, all other grievances redress'd, and our trade freed from those unjust, unaccountable clogs which have of late embarrass'd it, that we will not apply for their manufactures, but live within ourselves.

Had we taken this method at first, long before this we should have been deliver'd from these oppressions, for we have enough in Great-Britain to plead our cause, and tho' they are not of that august body the Parliament, they are of that respectable body the People, they will appear in our behalf (or rather their own) for if the trifling offence of wearing a piece of French silk can raise so large a body as 100,000 Spitalfields weavers that would attack the very P--rli--ment, what will be the consequence, when a very great part of the manufacturers of Great-Britain have nothing to do?

We have however great reason to bless the day that this amazing Act, with all its horrors, pass'd, for by it they have at once awaken'd a whole continent, till then, going on in luxury, and sinking into a forgetfulness of their liberty, and perhaps a few years more would have buried it in oblivion; but now we are rouz'd to a sence of our danger, and the rattling of chains has put us on our guard, and forced us to prove ourselves the worthy descendants of our glorious ancestors, who left their native country and conquered every hardship in this our land, in pursuit of that liberty which we are now defending: We have also retrench'd many extravagances, and to the eternal honour of this province, there is an annual saving of an amazing sum in that one single article of mourning, an extravagance this, that I trust will never be resum'd; and I hope it will be a standing memento to the manufacturers of those articles, as well as to all the manufacturers in the kingdom, that an attempt to tax America is, in other words, to tax themselves double, I say attempt, because I dare say it never will take place, and with justice it never can; nor is it amiss to remind them that the promoters of this Act are friends to neither King nor country: And they may be assur'd there is a full sufficiency of English goods now on the continent for at least seven years consumption, and it would be for our advantage (the stamp-act aside) if none were imported for half that time; then we might collect and pay our debts, which are already so heavy that we groan under them, and without any fresh grievances can hardly rub along; this is a truth, whatever may be said by those HIRED GARRET-TEERS on the other side the water, whose infamous performances pass unanswered; but let them and their employers know, that "Vox Populi est Vox Dei."

Upon the whole, I hope and trust that Great Good will come out of design'd Great Evil; that the unity now subsisting between the colonies may ever be firm and unshaken; and we all be ready, on the first appearance of tyranny or oppression, to rise as one man and crush it in embrio.