Citation - New Hampshire Gazette-Portsmouth: 1776.08.10

NHG-P.776.018
10 Aug 1776:41 (12)
America no longer bears the cause
Of her oppression, by Great-Britain's laws.
An independence glorious and great,
She now declares shall be her future state.
Her sons she arms, to hazard all their lives;
To save their country, children & their wives:
T'oppose the tyrant, and his multitude
Of pension'd placemen, a corrupted brood!
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