Young people's history of the American Revolution . JOSEPH BRANT-THAYENDANEGEAThe Great Captain of the Six Nations THE FLIGHT ACROSS THE JERSEYS 135 and lest no one else should deign to notice it, will makea few remarks upon what was designed for public this rarity we see slaves offering liberty to free Ameri-cans ; thieves and robbers offer to secure our rights andproperty; murderers offer us pardon; a perjured tyrantby the mouths of two of his hireling butchers commandsall the civil and military powers, in these independentstates to resign all pretensions to authority, and to ackn


Young people's history of the American Revolution . JOSEPH BRANT-THAYENDANEGEAThe Great Captain of the Six Nations THE FLIGHT ACROSS THE JERSEYS 135 and lest no one else should deign to notice it, will makea few remarks upon what was designed for public this rarity we see slaves offering liberty to free Ameri-cans ; thieves and robbers offer to secure our rights andproperty; murderers offer us pardon; a perjured tyrantby the mouths of two of his hireling butchers commandsall the civil and military powers, in these independentstates to resign all pretensions to authority, and to acknow-ledge subjection to a foreign despot, even his mock maj-esty, now reeking with blood and murder. This is trulya curiosity, and is a compound of the most consummatearrogance and folly of the cloven-footed spawn of despair-ing wretches, who are labouring to complete the works oftyranny and death. It would be far less wicked and notquite so stupid for the Grand Turk to send two of hisslaves into Britain to command all Britons to acknowledgethemsel


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