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1775-Nov. 7.-Dunmore's proclamation. IN NORFOLK And the adjacent country, Dunmore counted on numerous adherents. The rash advice, together with his own impetuous, haughty and revengeful temper, early impelled him to a mea sure characterized by folly, and fraught with incalculable mischief, not only to the people of Virgi. nia, but to his own cause. Under date of Nov. 7th, he issued the following proclamation, the style of which strongly indicates the agitation of a perturbed mind, whilst its substance betrays a blind, impolitic, ruinous inflexibility, and, what is still worse, a savage and wanton disregard for the fun. damental principles upon which the social fabric essentially rests, and for those rules of civilization, which are usually respected, even in the phrenzy and calamitous intent of war.

By his excellency, the right honorable Joas, earl of Dunmore, his majesty's lieutenant and governor general of the colony of Virginia, and vice admiral of

the same.

A PROCLAMATION

colony to a proper sease of their duty to his majes. ty's crown and dignity. I do further order and require all his majesty's liege subjects, to retain their quitrents or other taxes due, or that may become due in their own custody, till such a time as peace may again be restored to this at present most un happy country, or demanded of them for their former salutary purposes, by officers properly au thorised to receive the same.

"Given under my hand, on board the ship Wil. liam, off Norfolk, the 7th day of November, in the 16th year of his majesty's reign.

"GOD save the KING."

"DUNMORE.

TICONDEROGA. The following is not a revolu. tionary document, but an article that may well be preserved in this collection; and, being specially requested, we insert it with pleasure.

From the Hartford Times. The following statement or return, exhibiting a minute and accurate account of the loss in killed and wounded sustained by the British and American forces under the com. "As I have ever entertained hopes that an ac-mand of gen. Abercrombie, in the memorable discommodation might have taken place between aster or defeat at Ticonderoga, July, 1758, was, Great Britain and this colony, without being com as it purports, made out soon after the battle, by pelled by my duty to this most disagreeable, but Judah Woodruff, who was a captain of the pro now absolutely necessary duty, rendered so by a vincial forces, and belonging to Farmington, in body of men, unlawfully assembled, firing on his this county. The original document has been premajesty's tenders, and the formation of an army, served in the family, as a precious memorial of and an army now on its march to attack his majes. their ancestor, for sixty years, and was handed to ty's troops, and destroy the well disposed subjects us by his son. It is undoubtedly the most authen. of this colony. To defeat such treasonable purtic and correct statement of that unfortunate affair, poses, and that all such traitors, and their abettors which exposed our frontiers to the murderous and may be brought to justice, and that the peace and cruel outrages of a savage foe, and filled the whole good order of this colony may be again restored, colonies with consternation and dismay, which at which the ordinary course of the civil law is unathis day is to be found; and in every point of view ble to effect, I have thought fit to issue this my is worthy of preservation. We recommend its inproclamation, hereby declaring that, until the afore sertion to the editor of the Baltimore Weekly Re said good purposes can be obtained, I do, in virtue gister, as that work is probably the most permanent of the power and authority to me given, by his maand valuable place in which it can be deposited. jesty, determine to execute martial law, and cause We have printed it verbatim, and preserved the the same to be executed throughout this colony; same orthography, to exhibit an idea of the proand to the end that peace and good order may the vincial dialect of that day. sooner be restored, I do require every person ca- The British regiments are distinguished nume-. pable of bearing arms to resort to his majesty's rically, and by their commanders. The 1st and 4th standard, or be looked upon as traitors to his ma- battalions called "royal Americans," were troops jesty's crown and government, and thereby become enlisted in the colonies by British officers. The liable to the penalty the law inflicts upon such of "Prouinshals," or provincials, consisted of the milifences; such as forfeiture of life, confiscation of tia of the colonies, which were detached, or volands, &c. &c. And I do hereby further declare lunteered for the service. It will be seen that, with all indented servants, negroes, or others (apper-the exception of lord Murray's regiment, which taining to rebels) free, that are able and willing to was nearly cut to pieces, the loss of the provincials bear arms, they joining his majesty's troops as soon was as great as that of any one regiment. They s may be, for the more speedily reducing this must therefore have been actively engaged.

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The number wounded, 1269.-The number missing 39-Sum total 1823. This drawn out by me, Judah Wood ruff, August ye 15: 1758--Att lake Georges

The author of the "Broken Hints," page 324.

dear county; the other is, the fair oocasion that my understanding. I is an absurdity; for nothit gives me to bear a free and public testimonying has two beginnings.' I am sure,' said he, I against one part of our glorious constitution: I am a minister of Christ, and I am ready to debate style it glorious, although I humbly conceive it that matter with your lordship, if you, please: -I has several great blemishes, on account whereof cannot begin again to be a minister." it will, until corrected, be liable, in my poor opi- Besides, this term of executing the duties of nion, to very weighty, exception; but still it rethe place is against common right, and as I may mains glorious on account of the great quantity say, the natural franchise of every member of the of excellent matter contained in it. That part of commonwealth who has not by some crime or the constitution this event enables me not im delictum forfeited his natural rights and franchises. pertinently to except to, is the condition or term It, moreover, reduces the ninth article of the which the constitution holds every one to, who declaration of rights to a mere futility, and, in has the honor to be elected a member of the ge- such a connection, it would be for the reputation neral court of Massachusetts, before he may (as of the declaration of rights if that same ninth is expressed in the constitution) proceed to execute article was wholly expunged. More than that, the duties of his place. the said condition is plainly repugnant to the first

Be the person ever so immaculate and exem-great article of the said declaration: and I am plary a Christian; although he has, in the proper ready to debate that matter with any Doctor who place, that is, in the Christian church, made a assisted in framing the constitution, either in conmost solemn, explicit, and public profession of vention or without doors. The said declaration the Christian faith; though he has an hundred of faith to be subscribed, which constitutes the times, and continues perhaps every month in the said impolitic and unrighteous condition, will, I year, by participating in the church of the body believe, ever sound in every good ear almost as and blood of Christ, practically recognized and uncouthly as the Sessions Justices' famous charge affirmed the sincerity of that profession; yet, by to the standing grand jury. Let us hear them successively:

the constitution, he is held, before he may be admitted to execute the duties of his office, to make "I do declare, that I believe the Christian reand subscribe a profession of the Christian faith, ligion, and have a firm persuasion of its truth; and or declaration that he is a Christian. Did our fa+ [that I am seized and possessed in my own right of ther confessors imagine, that a man who had not the property required by the constitution," &c. so much fear of God in his heart as to restrain him from acting dishonestly and knavishly in the

"Gentlemen of the grand jury: You are required

trust of a senator or representative, would hesitate by your oath to see to it, that the several towns in a moment to subscribe that declaration? Cui bono, the county be provided, according to law, with then, is the declaration? This extraordinary, not

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to say absurd, condition, brings fresh to mind a passage in the life of the pious, learned, and Each containing an odd jumble of sacred and prudent Mr. John Howe, one of the strongest profane; but, to me, the charge jingles best. By pillars of the dissenting interest in the reign of the constitution of the commonwealth of MassaCharles the 2d and James the 2d. The history is chusetts, I am, may it please your honors, one of as follows: its senators; and I am strongly disposed, according to my poor abilities, to execute the duties of my office; but, by the unconscionable, not to say dishonorable terms, established by the same con. stitution, I am barred from endeavoring to perform these duties. I have been a professed Christian nearly forty years, and, although I have been guilty of many things unworthy of that character, whereof I am ashamed, yet I am not conscious that with the truth of that profession. have been guilty of any thing wholly inconsistent

"That Mr. Howe, waiting upon a certain bishop, his lordship presently fell to expostulating with him about his non-conformity. Mr. Howe told him he could not have time, without greatly trespassing on his patience, to go through the objections he had to make to the terms of conformity. The bishop pressed him to name any one that he reckoned to be of weight. He there upon instanced the point of re ordination. Why pray sir,' said the bishop, 'what hurt is there in being twice ordained? Hurt, my lord,' says Mr. The laws under the first charter required of Howe to him; the thought is shocking-it hurts the subjects of that state, in order to their enjoy

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Anecdote.-General Marion was a native of South effect, and then wheeling his horse, and bidding Carolina, and the immediate theatre of his exploits them good morning, departed. The dragoons, aswas a large section of maritime district of that tonished at what they had witnessed, and scarcely state. The peculiar hardihood of his constitution, believing their foe to be mortal, gave up the chase. and his being adapted to a warm climate, and a low marshy country, qualified him to endure hardIn congress, March 16, 1776. ships and submit to exposure, which, in that sickly "The congress, considering the warlike prepara. region, few other men would have been competent tions of the British ministry to subvert our into sustain. With the small force he was enabled valuable rights and privileges, and to reduce us, to embody, he was continually annoying the ene- by fire and sword, by the savages of the wilderness my, cautious never to risk an engagement, till he and our own domestics, to the most abject and could make victory certain. General Marion's ignominious bondage; desirous, at the same time, person was uncommonly light, and he rode, when to have people of all ranks and degrees duly imin service, one of the fleetest and most powerful pressed with a solemn sense of God's superintend chargers the South could produce: when in fair ing Providence, and of their duty devoutly to rely pursuit nothing could escape, and when retreat. in all their lawful enterprizes on his aid and direc ing nothing could overtake hịm. Being once tion, do earnestly recommend that Friday, the 17th nearly surrounded by a party of British dragoons, day of May next, be observed by the said colonies he was compelled, for safety, to pass into a corn. as a day of humiliation, fasting and prayer; that we field, by leaping the fence-this field, marked with may with united hearts, confess and bewail our considerable descent of surface, had been in part manifold sins and transgressions, and by a sincere a marsh; Marion entered it at the upper side, the repentance and amendment of life, appease his dragoons in chace, leaped the fence also, and righteous displeasure, and, through the merits and were but a short distance behind him. So com-mediation of Jesus Christ, obtain his pardon and *pletely was he now in their power, that his only forgiveness, humbly imploring his assistance to mode of escape was to pass over the fence at the frustrate the cruel purposes of our unnatural enelower side. To drain the field of its superfluous mies; and by inclining their hearts to justice and water, a trench had been cut around this part of benevolence, prevent the further effusion of kindred the field, four feet wide, and of the same depth; blood. But, if continuing deaf to the voice of reaof the mud and clay removed in cutting it, a bank son and humanity, and inflexibly bent on desolation had been formed on its inner side, and on the top and war, they constrain us to repel their hostile of this was erected the fence, the elevation amount-invasions by open resistance, that it may please ing to nearly eight feet perpendicular height-a the Lord of Hosts, the God of armies, to animate ditch four feet in width running parallel with it our officers and soldiers with invincible fortitude, on the outer side, a foot or more intervening, be to guard and protect them in the day of battle,

tween the fence and ditch.

and to crown the continental arms by sea and land, with victory and success: Earnestly beseeching The dragoons, acquainted with the nature and him to bless our civil rulers, and the representaextent of this obstacle, and considering it im- tives of the people in their several assemblies and possible for their enemy to pass it, pushed towards conventions; to preserve and strengthen their him with loud shouts of exultation and insult, and union; to inspire them with an ardent disinterested summoning him to surrender or perish by the love of their country; to give wisdom and stability sword; regardless of their rudeness and empty to their councils; and direct them to the most clamour, and inflexibly determined not to become efficacious measures for establishing the rights of their prisoner, Marion spurred his horse to the America on the most honorable and permanent charge, the noble animal, as if conscious that his basis; that he would be graciously pleased to bless master's life was in danger, and that on his exer- all the people in these colonies with health and tions depended his safety, approached the barrier plenty; and grant that a spirit of incorruptible in his finest style, and with a bound that was patriotism, and of pure undefiled religion, may almost supernatural, cleared the fence and ditch universally prevail: and this continent be speedily completely, and recovered himself without loss restored to the blessings of peace and liberty, and of time on the opposite side-Marion instantly enabled to transmit them inviolate to the latest wheeled about and saw his pursuers unable to pass posterity. And it is recommended to Christians the ditch, discharged his pistol at them without of all denominations, to assemble for public wor

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