A Tory response (in dramatic form) to the growing revolutionary sentiments among the American colonists. It was first published in Boston (in the same year) as "A Cure for the Spleen", being one of a number of editions printed that year. This edition, reprinted in New York, was published by the New York Tories (Sabin 1274). The work is attributed to Jonathan Sewall, the last colonial Attorney General of Massachusetts and a close friend of John Adams. In 1775, Sewall and his family were forced to flee Massachusetts for England after an anti-Loyalist mob stormed his residence. After the onset of the Revolution, John Adams lamented in his diary that his best friend had been made his implacable enemy. The Americans Roused has the distinction of being the first dramatic work taking the American Revolution as its theme. Sewall attacks the rebels in general, and the Continental Congress in particular. References: Sabin 1274.

12mo., 32 pages. In Good condition. Dis-bound pamphlet, lacking wrappers. Pages show light plus soiling overall, mild foxing and age-toning, some faint creasing along bound edge, and a significant tear to title page. RW Consignment. Shelved Case 7