The PENNSYLVANIA JOURNAL; and the WEEKLY ADVERTISER

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1775.

…Mr. Purdie,

Here you have a Proclamation that will at once show the baseness of Lord Dunmore’s heart, his malice and treachery against the people who were once under his government, and his officious violation of all law, justice and humanity; not to mention his arrogating to himself a power which neither he can assume, nor any power upon earth invest him with.

————Not in the legions

Of horrid Hell, can come a devil more damn’d

In evils, to top D*****e.

Source: Preface to Dunmore’s Proclamation, printed in the Pennsylvania Journal and Weekly Advertiser, December 6, 1775. (The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, GLC01706)