The Virginia Gazette

On Monday evening last the committee of correspondence met according to adjournment, and as this was the last time of their assembling before the departure of our delegates, the business of the ensuing congress was discussed with a manly firmness, and a becoming freedom of sentiment. Three of the delegates were present, and paid great attention to the opinions of their fellow citizens, declaring themselves happy to receive information on those important points, that were shortly to come before them; the whole scope, extension, and consequence of which they were unable as yet to comprehend. The points mostly insisted upon in these debates were, that if it was recommended to the Bostonians to pay for the tea, as an act of justice, their port would soon be opened, and then we should stand upon our former ground of importing no goods liable to a duty; that nothing but dire necessity, according to our own estimate, should induce us to break off our connections with the parent country; and that whenever we should be reduced to the last sad alternative, of entering into a non-importation agreement, it ought not to be a partial one, like the last, when some men made fortunes by the ruin of others; but that it should include and suspend the importation of every European commodity from all parts of the world.