This essay countered the July 6, 1775, statement by the Congress in Philadelphia declaring “The Causes and Necessity of Their Taking up Arms.” Like other ministerial writings of that year, it based its case on the “universally admitted” need for “a supreme and uncontroullable power” to exist “somewhere in every State.” The pamphlet is notable in its denunciation of William Pitt, and the inconsistency of Americans who continued to “flatter” him, despite his party’s suppor...
