Citation - New York Mercury (Gaine): 1777.08.18

NYM(G.777.069
18 Aug 1777:14 (1347)
[In a letter of July 20, 1777, from Baltimore, Maryland]
Otway has drawn the character of our present rulers in the
most emphatic manner:
They say by them our hands are free from fetters,
Yet whom they please they lay in basest bonds;
Drive us like wrecks down the rough tide of power,
Where no bold's left to save us from destruction:
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