Massachusetts-Bay In Provincial Congress, Concord, April 15, 1775. Whereas it has pleased the righteous Sovereign of the Universe, in just Indignation against the Sins of a People long blessed with inestimable Privileges, civil and religious, to suffer the Plots of wicked Men on both Sides of the Atlantick, who for many Years have incessantly laboured to sap the Foundation of our public Liberties, so far to succeed; that we see the New-England Colonies reduced to the ungrateful Alternative of a tame Submission to a State of absolute Vassalage to the Will of a despotic Minister—or of preparing themselves speedily to defend at the Hazard of Life, the unalienable Rights of themselves and Posterity, against the avowed Hostilities of their Parent State, who openly threatens to wrest them from their Hands by Fire and Sword. ... By Order of the Provincial Congress, John Hancock President. [Boston: Printed by Edes and Gill, 1775] Printed broadside (14 3/4 x 12 1/4 in.; 375 x 311 mm, untrimmed). Docketed on verso "Genl Fast May 11 1775" and, in a different hand, "To ye Revd. Mr. Solomon Recd. in Middleborough prey Sir give Mr. Backus ye advantage of this after you Have used it if you can"; headlines faintly offset, one light stain, a few pinholes at intersecting folds, one quadrant of verso browned.
Massachusetts-Bay In Provincial Congress, Concord, April 15, 1775. Whereas it has pleased the righteous Sovereign of the Universe, in just Indignation against the Sins of a People long blessed with inestimable Privileges, civil and religious, to suffer the Plots of wicked Men on both Sides of the Atlantick, who for many Years have incessantly laboured to sap the Foundation of our public Liberties, so far to succeed; that we see the New-England Colonies reduced to the ungrateful Alternative of a tame Submission to a State of absolute Vassalage to the Will of a despotic Minister—or of preparing themselves speedily to defend at the Hazard of Life, the unalienable Rights of themselves and Posterity, against the avowed Hostilities of their Parent State, who openly threatens to wrest them from their Hands by Fire and Sword. ... By Order of the Provincial Congress, John Hancock President. [Boston: Printed by Edes and Gill, 1775] Printed broadside (14 3/4 x 12 1/4 in.; 375 x 311 mm, untrimmed). Docketed on verso "Genl Fast May 11 1775" and, in a different hand, "To ye Revd. Mr. Solomon Recd. in Middleborough prey Sir give Mr. Backus ye advantage of this after you Have used it if you can"; headlines faintly offset, one light stain, a few pinholes at intersecting folds, one quadrant of verso browned.
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