To the freemen of Pennsylvania [microform] : My countrymen and fellow-citizens, The day is at length arrived, in which we must determine to live as freemen--or as slaves, to linger out a miserable existence. The tea-ship will, in all probability, be in a few hours at anchor in our harbour; and unless we exert ourselves against the introduction of her cargo, it will be landed; and if landed, it will be made use of, as a precedent of right to enslave our country to all eternity. ...
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- Regulus
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- [Philadelphia] : [publisher not identified], [1773]
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- 1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) ; (1/2$)
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Signed: Regulus.
The tea ship Polly arrived in Philadelphia on Dec. 26, 1773, and was compelled to return to London without unloading her cargo. Cf. Pennsylvania magazine of history and biography, 1891, v. 15, p. 390-393.
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- Microopaque. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1955-1983. 23 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 12970).
- Reviewed/Cited In:
- Evans, C. American bibliography, 12970
Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 2946
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