In its 26-28 June 1775 edition the Hibernian Journal or Chronicle of Liberty newspaper printed a long article by an author named as Tullus in support of the historic action that had been taken at Lexington two months before on 19 April, by the colonists in America (such as David Spear and his 'Minutemen' in my previous post) and opposing "the despotic measures of the administration". It was later reprinted in a number of newspapers in Philadelphia and Virginia:
“... If the Americans who lately fought in their own defence, in the defence of their chartered liberties, in defence of their undoubted properties, in defence of their wives and their little ones, nay more, in defence of the constitutions; if those men were rebels, then every man who joined in the Glorious Revolution, every man who drew his sword in this kingdom to oppose an arbitrary Stuart, was an arrant rebel ..."
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