...the same to the Inhabitants of their respective Towns and Plantations. . . . John Hancock, Speaker. To the Inhabitants of the United States of America. Friends and Countrymen, The present situation of public affairs demands your most serious attention. . . . Done in Congress...

...read immediately after divine service by "ministers of the gospel of all denominations." It began: "Friends and Countrymen: Three years have now passed...mankind. ... On one side, we behold fraud and violence laboring in the service of despotism; on the other, virtue and fortitude supporting and establishing...

...address to the British commissioners, the New Yorker set a sharp, impassioned tone of direct assault: "Three years have now passed away, since the commencement...war: a war without parallel in the annals of mankind. It hath displayed a spectacle, the most solemn that can possibly be exhibited. On one side, we behold...

...managed to juggle it with the work of his other eight committees and, in the same period, to publish "An Address of the Congress to the Inhabitants of the United States." (This was a trenchant essay on the significance of the recently cemented alliance with France.) With...

...belonging to Dr Franklin in France TH Bache; acquired at unknown datebyPHi(Ar74.M504). *3462 , , 1778. An address of the Congress to the inhabitants of the United States of America. ... In Congress, May 9, 1778. York-Town: by Hall and Sellers, 1778. Broadside. Addressed on verso to...

...Indian," Ind. Mag. of Hist. 79 (1983): 1-28. 27. Freeman's Journal, Sept. 19, 1781, p. 4 (Caesar); An Address of the Congress to the Inhabitants of the United States of America (York, Pa. — as well as Annapolis, Baltimore, Providence, Hartford, Boston, and Exeter, NH — 1778;...