The addresses for blood and devastation, and the addressers exposed; together with the idolatrous worship of kings and tyrants...
- William Moore (author)
- Jack P. Greene (collection editor)
This essay was among the most rhetorically colorful of the responses to the writers in the pay of the British government, Samuel Johnson, John Shabbeare, and John Wesley. Taking a strong moral stance against taxation without representation, the text excoriates those who “prostitute their abilities and belie their consciences for HIRE.” The American colonies were simply resorting to the only means left to them when “kings and governors degenerate into tyrants.”
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