Citation - Newport Mercury: 1765.10.28

NM.765.027
28 Oct 1765:22 (373)
[From the New-York Gazette, October 17]
Even our most just complaints have been deemed insolent,
undutiful and rebellious; not contented with precipitating
us to untimely destruction, they are offended with our dying
cries, and enraged that we will not expire without a groan.
  Ah! my dear country, curst in peace,
  Why did you wish the war to cease;
  The war in which you strew'd the plain,
  With thousands of your heroes slain.
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