Good Evening, The Patriots Diner is open for this night. Please take all you want. And if a minister shall usurp the supreme and absolute government of America, and set up his instructions as laws in the colonies, and their Governors shall be so weak or so wicked, as for the sake of keeping their places, to be made the instruments in putting them in execution, who will presume to say that the people have not a right, or that it is not their indispensable duty to God and their Country, by all rational means in their power to RESIST THEM. ”Be firm, my friends, nor let UNMANLY SLOTH Twine round your hearts indissoluble chains. Ne er yet by force was freedom overcome. Unless CORRUPTION first dejects the pride, And guardian vigour of the free-born soul, All crude attempts of violence are vain. Determined, hold Your INDEPENDENCE; for, that once destroyed, Unfounded freedom is a morning dream.” The liberties of our Country, the freedom of our civil constitution are worth defending at all hazards : And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair Inheritance from our worthy Ancestors : They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood ; and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle ; or be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men. Of the latter we are in most danger at present : Let us there fore be aware of it. Let us contemplate our fore fathers and posterity ; and resolve to maintain the rights bequeath d to us from the former, for the sake of the latter. Instead of sitting down satisfied with the efforts we have already made, which is the wish of our enemies, the necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude and perseverance. Let us remember, that ” if we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom.” It is a very serious consideration, which should deeply impress our minds, that millions yet unborn may be the miserable sharers in the event. CANDIDUS. “The Writings of Samuel Adams,” Vol. II (1770-1773), collected and edited by Harry Alonzo Gushing, G.P. Putnam & Sons, New York & London, 1906; pp. 251-256
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