BROADSIDE]. The Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled. To the People in general, and particularly to the Inhabitants of Pennsylvania, and the adjacent States. Friends and Brethren, We think it our Duty to address a few Words of Exhortation to you in this important Crisis...Given at Philadelphia, December 10, 1776, By Order of Congress, [signed:] John Hancock President. n.p., n.d. [Philadelphia 1776]. Large folio, edged untrimmed, two small holes, scattered spotting. Evans 15181. "CONGRESS DECLARED THE UNITED STATES FREE AND INDEPENDENT" A fine broadside call to arms to defend Philadelphia, restating the "History of the Rise and Progress of this War," complaining of British "acts of the most unjust and oppressive Nature". Now, "to crown the whole, they have waged War with us in the most cruel and unrelenting Manner...hiring foreign Mercenaries [Hessians]...who indulge themselves in Rapine and Bloodshed...." It was "the universal Desire of the People, and with the hearty Approbation of every Province," that "the Congress declared the United States free and independent; a measure not only Just," but "absolutely necessary," since "no terms could be obtained but Pardon, upon absolute Submission, which every public Body in America had rejected with Disdain..." Since the outbreak of armed rebellion "resistance has been made with a Spirit and Resolution becoming a free People....The Enemy have been expelled from the northern Provinces, where they at first had Possession, and have been repulsed in their Attempt upon the southern by the undaunted Valour of the Inhabitants...." The purpose of the present address, the broadside continues, is "to excite the Inhabitants of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and the adjacent States to an immediate and spirited Exertion in Opposition to the Army that now threatens to take possession of this City [Phladelphia].....We call in the most earnest Manner on all the Friends of Liberty to exert themselves without delay in this pressing Emergency....General [Charles] Lee is advancing with a strong reinforcement....What Pity is it then that the rich and populous City of Philedelphia should fall into the Enemy's Hands....All that is valuable to us as Men and Freemen is at Stake...And though (blessed by God) even the Loss of Philadelphia would not be the Loss of the Cause---Yet while it can be saved, let us not, in the Close of the Campaign, afford them such Ground of Triumph; but give a Check to their Progress, and convince our Friends, in the distant Parts, that ONE SPIRIT ANIMATES THE WHOLE..."
BROADSIDE]. The Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled. To the People in general, and particularly to the Inhabitants of Pennsylvania, and the adjacent States. Friends and Brethren, We think it our Duty to address a few Words of Exhortation to you in this important Crisis...Given at Philadelphia, December 10, 1776, By Order of Congress, [signed:] John Hancock President. n.p., n.d. [Philadelphia 1776]. Large folio, edged untrimmed, two small holes, scattered spotting. Evans 15181. "CONGRESS DECLARED THE UNITED STATES FREE AND INDEPENDENT" A fine broadside call to arms to defend Philadelphia, restating the "History of the Rise and Progress of this War," complaining of British "acts of the most unjust and oppressive Nature". Now, "to crown the whole, they have waged War with us in the most cruel and unrelenting Manner...hiring foreign Mercenaries [Hessians]...who indulge themselves in Rapine and Bloodshed...." It was "the universal Desire of the People, and with the hearty Approbation of every Province," that "the Congress declared the United States free and independent; a measure not only Just," but "absolutely necessary," since "no terms could be obtained but Pardon, upon absolute Submission, which every public Body in America had rejected with Disdain..." Since the outbreak of armed rebellion "resistance has been made with a Spirit and Resolution becoming a free People....The Enemy have been expelled from the northern Provinces, where they at first had Possession, and have been repulsed in their Attempt upon the southern by the undaunted Valour of the Inhabitants...." The purpose of the present address, the broadside continues, is "to excite the Inhabitants of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and the adjacent States to an immediate and spirited Exertion in Opposition to the Army that now threatens to take possession of this City [Phladelphia].....We call in the most earnest Manner on all the Friends of Liberty to exert themselves without delay in this pressing Emergency....General [Charles] Lee is advancing with a strong reinforcement....What Pity is it then that the rich and populous City of Philedelphia should fall into the Enemy's Hands....All that is valuable to us as Men and Freemen is at Stake...And though (blessed by God) even the Loss of Philadelphia would not be the Loss of the Cause---Yet while it can be saved, let us not, in the Close of the Campaign, afford them such Ground of Triumph; but give a Check to their Progress, and convince our Friends, in the distant Parts, that ONE SPIRIT ANIMATES THE WHOLE..."
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