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The Virginia Gazette
Williamsburg, Virginia
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On Wednesday last, the Declaration of Independence was read to the Continental Army brigades near New York, met with cheers. That evening, the equestrian statue of George III, erected in 1770, was toppled by patriots; its lead to be melted into bullets.
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The same evening the equestrian statue of George III. which Tory pride and folly raised in the year 1770, was, by the sons of freedom, laid prostrate in the dirt, the just desert of an ungrateful tyrant! The lead wherewith this monument was made is to be run into bullets, to assimilate with the brain of our infatuated adversaries, who to gain a pepper corn have lost an empire*.
Quos deus vult perdere prius dementat.
A gentleman, who was present at this ominous fall of leaden majesty, looking back to the original's hopeful beginning, pertinently exclaimed, in the language of the angel to Lucifer, "If thou be'st he! but ah, how fallen! how chang'd!"
* Lord Clare, in the House of Commons, declared, that a pepper corn, in acknowledgment of Britain's right to tax America, was of more importance than millions without it,
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New York
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Wednesday Last
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equestrian statue of george iii laid prostrate; lead to be run into bullets
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Declaration of Independence read to continental army brigades at and near New York, received with huzzas and joy. Same evening, statue of George III toppled by sons of freedom.