A Manifesto and Address from HEAVEN, By the Guardian Angel of AMERICA:
From HEAVEN, whoe'ere beholds on yonder Earth,
Grieves at the Oppression sprung from vilest Birth.
To the Governors, Councils, Houses of Burgesses, and Representatives of the several Provinces and Colonies of America; with all the freeborn Sons now inhabiting in but oppressed Country. The Antient and Fathers, first Settlers, with all the principal Leaders of the preceeding Generations of that Land, now convened and assembled in the World to which all the Righteous are passing, who have first by the Blood of the Everlasting Covenant been redeemed from all Sins;--
Sendeth Greeting.
HAVING the approbation of GEORGE the second, who, by the grace and appointment of our GOD, as a king and leader, for many years righteously swayed the sceptre in our and your mother country, and is now received into these glorious mansions, where a place was prepared for him by the Saviour of the world.--
It was agreed by this our assembly, to send by your guardian Angel, this manifesto and address, (viz) When first by the permission of the supreme legislature of the English nation, we left Great Britain, our native clime, committed ourselves to the protection of Heaven on a boisterous and raging ocean, till conducted by divine Providence, we reached the deserts of America, where we ventured to land and form our infant settlement, in the then wild and howling wilderness, where for many years, not having any assistance or protection from our mother country; even the seats we had left, were not deemed vacant, and those we then occupied were by them not enquired for, and we were to them as though we had not been, from the day we left them, they withdrew from us their protection.
Thus encountering all the troubles and dangers which waylaid us on every side, we sustained innumerable disasters from the then numerous and blood thirsty savages, having our nearest friends torn from our bosoms and murdered before our eyes; children taken from their mothers breasts, and dashed to pieces, and we who escaped the sword of those devourers, like unto the children of Israel at the rebuilding the temple, sweat and toiled with our weapons of defence girt about us; labouring to raise supplies necessary for the support of life: But gracious Heaven benignly smil'd and the Almighty had compassion, and far exceeding the widow's barrel of meal, which, according to the prophecy of Elijah, wasted not, though in constant use; we were mangled, torn and wasted by our enemies, and not only sustained our numbers, but increased and became numerous: thus with views of making you our offspring happy people, we surmounted all difficulties, and endured all hardships with pleasure, hoping to have left you always in possession of those sacred rights which nature has given to all men, without the abridgment of any earthly prince or state; By this time our mother country feeing the flourishing state to which America would likely advance, and conscious of the advantages which might accrue to them from such a settlement, in addition to those rights derived to us from nature; entered into the most sacred engagements to give, secure, and preserve to us inviolably, all the rights and immunities of the inhabitants of Britain, agreeable to Magna Charta, with certain other privileges granted by particular charters, from time to time, made and recognized by the King and people of Britain, the confideration for which have been always paid and made good according to compact and agreement, by us and our successors, down to your day; in which time many innovations have been made on the liberties of our beloved offspring; and now at last the great legislature of the nation have been so far misled, as to strike at once at all those rights which are so justly deemed sacred; reducing you our offspring, and the generations which will follow you, to the most abject slavery, involving our numerous progeny, for whose sakes we so incessantly toyled in inevitable ruin. Shocking thought! amazing stupidity! Shall they at once destroy the best and most just constitution under Heaven! Will you our beloved offspring, who still have your residence in the material world, suffer it? Can you so lightly esteem the happiness of your children, and all succeeding ages, as to give up the point? Nay, will you not stand in defence of justice? Will you not all join to espouse so righteous a cause? We who dwell in the immaterial world, now plainly tell you, that you may not give it up, you cannot; if you give up those rights derived to you from nature, the bequest is of no force, for Heaven has entailed them to your posterity; and if you give up those rights which are derived from the British constitution, or from royal grants, &c. you give that which we have dearly purchased and bequeathed to our children's children, even to latest generations, so this is still doing injustice.
We however strictly injoin it upon you, not to take unjust methods to free yourselves from those insupportable burthens. Don't forget, or fling off your allegiance to Great Britain; your King is one of the best of earthly Kings.--Be loyal, be calm, but at the same time be immovable as the mountains; try REMONSTRANCES, try ADDRESSES humbly, but chearfully plead your cause; and in the mean time, as the back settlements of your country are in danger from the savages, and your sea coasts from that powerful nation, the French, at this critical juncture,--order your militia in readiness; you have also on the continent about one hundred thousand officers and men, who have been in some measure disciplined in the late war. Order them to be in readiness at an hour's warning. See that your several magazines are well supplied with ammunition, &c. then may you in the most momentous day, be ready to withstand any who would encroach upon your property.
Don't wonder that none of this assembly have signed their names to this, for there may not be too unbounded an imimacy between the Inhabitants of a material and immaterial world.
AMEN.
Into whose-soever hands this may first happen, see to it, that it be immediately published in all the provinces on the continent.
Sold near the Burying-Place in Portsmouth, leading to the Mill-Pond; first publish'd in Connecticut. in the Year of our LORD CHRIST, 1766.
It is desir'd that the above may be pasted up in every House in the several Provinces. Price 6 Cappers.
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