REVOLUTIONARY WAR]. Printed broadside "At a Meeting of the Freeholders and other Inhabitants of the Town of Boston, legally assembled in Faneuil-Hall by Adjournment, on Friday the Sixth Day of September, 1782. The Honorable SAMUEL ADAMS, Esq; Moderator." Signed by William Cooper Town Clerk. 2 pages, folio . Evans 17480, Ford 2316. FIGHTING THE "INFAMOUS TRAFICK" IN "BRITISH MANUFACTURES AND BRITISH MANNERS" THAT THREATEN TO "ENSLAVE AMERICA" A feisty broadside from late in the War, attacking the persistent problem of illicit trade with the enemy. "The artful and insidious Cabinet of Britain, sensible of the Inefficiency of their Fleets and Armies to enslave America, and hitherto disappointed in their Expectations from Bribery & Corruption...have in the Excess of their Folly and Lust of Domination, adopted the absurd idea of subjugating America, by throwing in upon us a Flood of their Manufactures...By this Trade they expect to destroy that great, that mutual Confidence so happily subsisting between us and our magnanimous Allies; to revive that foolish Predilection which we once had for British Manufactures and British Manners." Using "the meanest and the vilest Arts to destroy that happy Union which has hitherto been, and while it continues, cannot fail (under God) to be our fair Rock of Defence ," a "haughty though fallen Britain" was trying to "drain us of our Money, the Sinews of war." And to "the Disgrace of America, a few of her Sons, blinded by the Lure, and devoid of all Principle, have catched at the bait; and misled by Avarice, have taken the High Road to Infamy and Ruin." All those engaged in such "infamous Trafick" were to be deemed "Enemies to our Freedom and Happiness--wholly unfit to reside among Freemen: And we will, by withdrawing all Intercourse from them, and by treating them, on all Occasions, with Disrespect and Indignity, equal to their Demerit, convince them that Americans can not associate with such base Characters." Every single individual was empowered with the "Right to inspect all Packages of Goods that are transporting as well by Land as Water." To the Patriot leaders, American greed and self-interest was as much an enemy of the Revolution as were the British.
REVOLUTIONARY WAR]. Printed broadside "At a Meeting of the Freeholders and other Inhabitants of the Town of Boston, legally assembled in Faneuil-Hall by Adjournment, on Friday the Sixth Day of September, 1782. The Honorable SAMUEL ADAMS, Esq; Moderator." Signed by William Cooper Town Clerk. 2 pages, folio . Evans 17480, Ford 2316. FIGHTING THE "INFAMOUS TRAFICK" IN "BRITISH MANUFACTURES AND BRITISH MANNERS" THAT THREATEN TO "ENSLAVE AMERICA" A feisty broadside from late in the War, attacking the persistent problem of illicit trade with the enemy. "The artful and insidious Cabinet of Britain, sensible of the Inefficiency of their Fleets and Armies to enslave America, and hitherto disappointed in their Expectations from Bribery & Corruption...have in the Excess of their Folly and Lust of Domination, adopted the absurd idea of subjugating America, by throwing in upon us a Flood of their Manufactures...By this Trade they expect to destroy that great, that mutual Confidence so happily subsisting between us and our magnanimous Allies; to revive that foolish Predilection which we once had for British Manufactures and British Manners." Using "the meanest and the vilest Arts to destroy that happy Union which has hitherto been, and while it continues, cannot fail (under God) to be our fair Rock of Defence ," a "haughty though fallen Britain" was trying to "drain us of our Money, the Sinews of war." And to "the Disgrace of America, a few of her Sons, blinded by the Lure, and devoid of all Principle, have catched at the bait; and misled by Avarice, have taken the High Road to Infamy and Ruin." All those engaged in such "infamous Trafick" were to be deemed "Enemies to our Freedom and Happiness--wholly unfit to reside among Freemen: And we will, by withdrawing all Intercourse from them, and by treating them, on all Occasions, with Disrespect and Indignity, equal to their Demerit, convince them that Americans can not associate with such base Characters." Every single individual was empowered with the "Right to inspect all Packages of Goods that are transporting as well by Land as Water." To the Patriot leaders, American greed and self-interest was as much an enemy of the Revolution as were the British.
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