The Virginia Gazette

By a Vessel in a short Passage from Philadelphia we have a certain Account that Harmon Husband is now at Wilmington, a little Town just below Philadelphia, goes much in Publick, and is highly caressed by a Multitude, who he every Day entertains with the tragical Story of Governor Tryon's Massacre of his Brethren in Iniquity in North Carolina, and is undoubtedly the Author of the many extraordinary Publications we find in the Pennsylvania Journal. It should seem exceedingly unaccountable that a Person of Harmon Husband's Address and Penetration Should be able to induce such a Number of People, whom we find espousing his Cause, to believe that the Governor of this Province, chief of his Majesty's Council, near forty Members of the Assembly, and a very considerable Number of Gentlemen of the first Fortunes and Families in this Province, who were in the Battle of Alamance, Should all be corrupted, all in League to harass and oppress a Set of harmless industrious Men, who were striving hard against the Iron Hand of Oppression! The Doctrine is absurd, and ridiculous. The least Reflection must compel a Belief that Something was wrong, Something amiss among these People; especially when among the provincial Laws of the Province, published by Authority, are to be found Acts for redressing and removing every Grievance that could possibly have an Existence among them.