The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

The Day is at length arrived; big with the Fate of Vermont or New-Hampshire — now we feel the Want of a well established Government; to put in Force its Laws, and which we hope soon to see— If the High sheriff can be imprisoned within his own County Goal, of which he was appointed the Keeper, by the Laws of this State, and in the Execution of his Office, and that too by the Authority of a Man acting under the pretended State of Vermont, without spirited Resentment to the Audacity of the Attempt, adieu to all Government ; the Way is now clear, and the Remedy is at Hand : This Attack upon the person of one of the Executive Officers of this State will convince the Honorable Congress of the Necessity of quelling these Insurgents — for by indulging them with only a Hearing on the Subject of a Union, they have taken it for granted, they are really recognized as a State; but if any Thing might once be said in their Favour before, this presumptuous Conduct will obliterate every favourable Impression ; and if the United States can be trampled upon, and their Resolves disregarded, one Confederation is set at Nought, therefore Nothing less than a solemn Resolve to annihilate this usurped State, can be the Consequence of an Application from this State.