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Show 68 Ann CLArMs or AMERICA. THE RIGHTS or BRITAIN the Charge of the troons; yet nothing is 6.9 Lit)lth"S ever qmtted the road, either upon The aflErtions of the Congrrfs concerning tranlaétirms within the town of Bottom, are as utterly devoid of truth, as their account their march or return from Concord. of what happen: (l in the country. The hofu be'ter atcsrttmedt tnan that not one of the The Congrel‘s fiigmatize the exnedition 0 Lexington and Concord, with the epithets tile intentions ofthxnle WITHIN, were as 3;). parent as the rebellion of their brethren "‘ of on unprovoked and wanton st'iiiult." ‘WI'I‘HOU'I‘ was certain. Was the collecting warlike implements at leit-xwfbnce mutt therefore have jntirr'ied General Gage for having deprived the for- Comet-rd, raitiné men throughout the Province, difeiplining troops in every difiriet» forming magazmes, purchsfing ammunition, and pregzaring arms, no provocation? Vere not the whoic country afliembled before tnev knew of this exoeditisn .P And was not their being to completely provitled with the means (.t‘ rcpellmg hotiilities, a {ufiiciaznt proof, that. they had prerioufly rei'olvecl to to n- m-cnce them? Conid fruit THUUSANI) men, the number that attacked (though at a The great law if mer of arms, which they almott avowcdly intended to wife zgaintt all legal anilmrity'. After the {kirmith at Lexington and Con" cord, all {implies from the county were cut oil? from the town of Bofion. Many of the inhabitants defined to remove, with their efieets. Thei requefi was granted 5 but it was at the lame time demanded, that they tliould deliver up their arms. This was, a: callul together by a hidden :zltirm? Are not firfl, approved by all; but great Llamours foon after f'olleweell Such of the inhabitants as were well affeéted, or Pl‘fiiiihlid to be well afihéled to Government, alletlged, that the Congrets CChlhrOtaS to themtflelves, and none but the ill-inclined llzewed Lmy imam was not General Gigi? {nt'iicieratly apprized, nation to remove; and that who tic}; {hould become {life with their ere-o5, the eitunim'r (lit aunts) t it: troops on their re- treat, have been Ctflltfi'Xl bi; accident, or that th» people of Del/lifetime tS»BJy had ClVICHD'flCtl to begin l‘crtirlities, had the expediaion to (loner-rut never happened? The, truth IS, the mareh of the troops had only hullenen the eweution of the plan of rebellion tcttled before in the ltcret councils of town would be {et on fire. A great detour having alfo ariten about the l'ITtLettittg of the word EFFECTS, whether Mencrmsmsr was included; and the General being like» Wife fenlible, that the permitting fit‘titlifv 0'? that kind to be carried to the rebels, ""45" the fret/mad Congrats; The? 1"»: cm." |