The Newport Gazette

From the Roxac
Address to those who
CONGRESS.

My dear Countrymen

It is with utmost Concern I behold you insensibly led in perambulation, and blindly continuing to cruelly pursue the evil Measures of an abandoned, interested, and ambitious of Power, have intentionally designing Set of Men, who, intoxicated by led you from your Duty, delayed your Happiness and Repose, and brought you to the Verge of Ruin; seemingly without being sensible of the Danger. They have taught you to admire and pursue the Phantom of Liberty, by which Means you have unfortunately lost the Securities and now strenuously labour to forge the Iron Chain of Republican Slavery for your Wrists and to support the desperate Fortunes of your Demagogues at your Expence; and the Ruin of your Country that is possible.

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But have you obtained it? Do not flatter or deceive yourselves any longer with the Expectation of foreign Support, for you have not the most distant Hope of obtaining it; and if you had, it would avail you nothing, but perhaps in prolonging the War. But had the Matchless Impudence to assert the Arrival of a French Fleet to your Aid in the Harbour of Boston? I need not assert its Falsity; because I am sure you are, e'er now, sensible of its Fallacy yourselves. With what View they propagate such glaring Falsehoods, unless, to stimulate your Spirit, and lead you still farther up the Path of Ruin, I cannot conceive. But how you can suffer yourselves to be so egregiously imposed upon, without properly resenting the Abuse, is astonishing to me. But to add to their Villainy and Deception, they have lately caused to be published in several of the Provincial Gazettes, which you cannot be ignorant of, the mutinying of the foreign Troops, both here and in Canada; their Intention, when an Opportunity offers, of going off to you in a Body; the weak State of the whole Army, their Disaffection, and their dying by Thousands: But if you have Faith in such Publications, I sincerely lament your Credulity. I solemnly declare and assure you, the whole Army, British and foreign, is in good Order, well affected, in Health and the highest Spirits, and impatiently waiting for the Opening of the Campaign, which will be Soon; when, if you wantonly continue refractory, you will, though then perhaps too late, lament your Folly and curse your Leaders, who will then decamp, and leave you in the Lurch, to pay for their Villainy.

I sincerely lament your Situation, which is truly calamitous; for your Wants I know are already insupportable, and your Distress for the Necessaries of Life intolerable, which your Paper Money cannot purchase, but at an exorbitant Price, and some indispensable Articles are not to be had at any Rate. Look around you, and see to what Distress you are reduced. Inevitable Destruction hovers over your Head; For how can you hope for Success, when the main Sinews of your War, your Paper Currency, on which your Success depends, is sunk below its nominal Value, and the Exigencies of your wild Measures, if not soon indeed, will require a new Emission, which will depreciate it to nothing. -I have no Interest separate from yours in View; and as a Friend to Humanity in general, and the Welfare and Happiness of my Country in particular, I advise you, nay, I conjure you, as you tender your own Happiness; to act with an honest, manly and becoming Spirit in avenging your Wrongs, and deposing your Deceivers and factious Demagogues, by whom you have been designedly led from your Duty and Allegiance to the Best of Kings, whose Affection and Pardon you thereby regain; your Country save from impending Desolation and Ruin, and conciliate the Friendship of your most faithful and best Countrymen, who have been much injured, abused, and driven almost to Despair, for their steady and firm Attachment to Order and Government.-

For now or never is the Time to return to your Duty:-A Moment's Delay may be attended with an Age of Sorrow. Drive from among you, or elect those oppressive and deluding Tyrants, whom you have unwarily entrusted with a Power to domineer over you; and boldly dissolve all Congresses, Committees, and their military Establishments, and once more live happy under the mild and benign Influence of a British Government.