On Wednesday last it [Declaration of Independence] was read at the head of each Brigade of the Continental Army posted at and near New York and everywhere received with loud huzza's. and the utmost" demonstrations of joy.
The same evening the equestrian statue of George III. which Tory pride and folly raised in the year 1770, was by the Sons of Freedom laid prostrate in the dirt, the just desert of an ungrateful Tyrant! The lead wherewith this monument was made is to be run into bullets, to assim[il]ate with the brain of our infatuated adversaries who, "to gain a pepper corn, have lost an Empire. ー "
Quos Deus vult "perdere, prius dementat."
