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PGCJ.765.032
24 Aug 1765:32 Extraordinary
Boston, August 19. Early on Wednesday morning last, the
effigy of a gentleman, sustaining a very unpopular office,
viz. that of stamp-master, was found (to the great joy of
the people) hanging on a tree in the most public part of
town, together with a boot, wherein was concealed a young
imp of the devil, represented as peeping out of the top--On
the breast of the effigy was a label, containing these
lines, in large characters:
Fair freedom's glorious cause I meanly quitted,
Betrayed my country for the sake of self;
But ah! at leangth, the De--l has me outwitted,
Instead of stamping others, I've hang'd myself.
Underneath was the following words, He that takes this down
is an enemy to his country.--On the right arm were the
initial letters of the stampman's name, (A.O.) and on the
left, these lines:
What greater joy can New-England see,
Than stampmen hanging on a tree!
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