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NHG-P.766.002
10 Jan 1766:31 (484)
Portsmouth, January 10, 1766 . . . [12-line quotation from
Cicero]
Agreeable to the design of the Sons of Liberty to sacrifice
the infamous abettors of the Stamp-Act to their just
resentment, they assembled last Friday on the Parade, when
the effigy of G---ge G--v-lle made its appearance, bound in
chains, the true emblem of that servile state, to which the
original would have reduced the freeborn sons of America;
and after being exposed to every insult that an injured
people could invent, it was deservedly committed to the
flames, together with the late stamp let pass received from
Barbados by Captain Salter, which was fixed upon the left
breast of the effigy, denoting how nearly to his heart that
infamous M-----r held the cruel badge of his own importance
and designs of ruining his fellow subjects;--before him was
affixed the following lines addressed to the public,
Come view G---ge G--ville with attention,
Mark this vile Stamp, his rare invention,
And here, [ ] him at the stake,
Observe how ev'ry limb does shake,
His guilty countenance betrays
His meanness in a thousand ways;
His fav'rite Act barbarian slaves
Adopted have, such menial knaves
Slavery may suit, but not these climes,
Where freedom reigns and honor shines.
. . . [10 lines of verse; 25 lines protesting the Stamp Act]
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