Virginia Gazette, 8 March 1776 - "Always for Liberty and the Public Good" - yet again, 1688 as the template for another revolution

"... The present ministry, notorious as they have rendered themselves for their attachment to those arbitrary principles in government in opposition to which our glorious ancestors fought, bled, and died, and by whose spirit and wisdom the liberty we enjoy has been rescued from former British tyrants...

A Congress was therefore appointed, consisting of delegates from the representatives of the people in every colony, that, by a union of their councils and strength, the common safety might be effectually obtained.

Those who deny this proceeding to be legal do plainly deny the legality of the [1688] Revolution, and that title by which the king of England now holds his crown; for when the people of England were abused by similar exertions of despotick power, they assembled by their representatives in 1688, not in Parliament, but in Convention (or Congress if you will) and determined to banish the tyrant STUART from the throne, and place thereon our glorious deliverer king WILLIAM, in succession to whom the present king now sways the sceptre of that country.

Thus you see, my countrymen, the appointment of a Congress is founded in reason, self-preservation, and the practice of England; but the present Tory ministry, and their secret directors, object to this proceeding, not only because it is agreeable to the purest principles of liberty, and the [1688] Revolution, both which they detest, but because the Congress, by their wise, spirited councils, and conduct, have effectually baffled the cabinet scheme for enslaving America..."