Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

While we are recognizing the authority of Congress, by receiving an Ambassador in their name, they have not even a shadow of power in their own country; for by the best accounts from the Continent, there is not, at this moment, any one of the United States, as they are pompously called, that acknowledge the supremacy of such a Head, or pays the least regard to their ordinances and decrees. Each acts by itself as sovereign and independent; nor will their respective citizens submit to any laws or regulations but such as are enacted by their own particular assemblies. In this state of anarchy, the admission of a representative from Congress, is a solecism in politics which can hardly be accounted for. If trade was the view of our ministers in doing so, they certainly took the wrong way to effect their purpose. It can be no great recommendation to the commercial part of the Americans, that we have, so far given our sanction to an authority which they consider as odious, and seem determined to resist.