Loyalist Newspaper
Top News Page 1- The Foolish Acts of American Colonists towards Britain Page 2-A Fight Against Republicanism Page 3- The Loyalists Exodus Page 4- Peace at Paris and Thomas Paine Preaches Common Sense Page 5- An Unfortunate Surrender Page 6-Peace for All Page 8- Just for Fun Activities
“We support Britain on all their decisions.”
The Foolish Acts of American Colonists towards Britain Cinthya Rodriguez Can you believe the disaster that these foolish American colonists caused in New York?! I can’t help but sit here in disbelief at the fact that the American colonists had the audacity to capture our British troops in Ticonderoga and take our British troops along with our artillery! What were they thinking? Did they think we were just going to leave and let them have victory? If so, they were wrong. Britain will not just give them the satisfaction. We might have only had 3,000 men, but we headed out on a bloody attack in Bunker Hill, facing only 1,500 Americans. With pride as loyalists, we faced the American colonists, whose gunpowder had finished. This quickly brought us victory. How foolish of them for not thinking things through! They have just caused major problems not only with us loyalists, but with our King, George III. Realizing that he didn’t want to reconcile with the colonists because of what they did, our king needed men, thus turning to German troops for support. These Hessians would quickly bring fear to these Americans.
Did the Americans believe that we’d just give up and not get back at them for capturing our forces in Ticonderoga? This is just the beginning of everything, and we as loyalists hope that these incompetent American colonists are well prepared for what’s headed their way.
A Fight against Republicanism Miriam Alvarado Paine’s protest to have independence and create a republic that would be a form of government to deliver the people’s voice, is only a way to create more chaos and initiate conflict. The colonists don’t have knowledge of what they want and what they want their government to do for them. Educated government officials are the ones that have the understanding of what is best for the colonist and what they need to have in order to prosper in the world. A republican form of government is just a useless way to make them happy and get them more involved, but that is not going to help them in any way. The monarch form of government allows for the colonist to be in good hands and have the peace that great decisions will be made for them. The education and experience the government officials have allowed for are the best decisions for the interest of the colonists to be made. The idea of republicanism is also another way to attack the British who have the best interests for the colonist. British are only trying to help them with their wealth, and decisions that will benefit them in the long run.
Republicanism is only an idea that they have been brainwashed by Paine to go against the monarch and British government only to create more unnecessary conflict among them. Even some patriots don’t fully agree with what Paine is trying to get the colonists to follow. Patriots want a form of government that is “natural in aristocracy.” To the patriots this form of republicanism would only transform for the worse the stability of their society. British government are the ones that are powerful and brings more ideas to the colonies and who else is better to bring forwards the colonist and their society but the British.
The Loyalists Exodus Miriam Alvarado Alvarado To some peopleMiriam the patriots may have been the innocent ones and the ones that harm was only being done to, but in contrary patriots weren’t that innocent. Even before and after the Declaration of Independence was signed, loyalists fell victims to the patriots and their deeds. Loyalists were persecuted and went through brutal conditions after the Declaration of Independence. Due to the separation of the patriots and the loyalists from the Declaration of Independence, tensions were far more intense. Patriots now had more liberty and freedom and they tended to regard the loyalists as traitors. Loyalists are only keeping their loyalty towards Britain, whom they have their respect and admiration. This is what has caused them to be known as traitors and has got them imprisoned and hanged. Loyalists are only doing what’s correct and keep faithful to the people that helped them and who they actually believe are doing what’s best for the colonists. What rights did the patriots have in taking away the estates that the loyalists had worked hard for just like everyone else?
Peace at Paris Jaquelynn Tirado Our mother country and our king have failed us. We have been defeated by these Patriots, who have no respect for their king. We would have won if we were not put up against two groups, those no good French. They made this war the challenge, the Rebels couldn’t have done it without them. Now our British family has turned the tables. They’ve befriended those rebels and given them independence when they didn’t allow it from the begging. The only good things coming out of this Treaty of Paris is the rebels have finally left us in peace. We’ve been given back our land and our valuables. There is no more persecution towards us and we can live life even with those eyes of hatred starring at us. Our great and honest King George 3 has good reasoning to where he is going with this, I have faith in him. He knows best for his loyal people. We will stand by his side till the end he is our king.
Thomas Paine Preaches Common Sense Jaquelynn Tirado Before becoming Americans, we were the people of Britain. Loyal to our empire and our king. Britain was our mother country and had a big role in our lives. We knew that rebelliion was unacceptable and dangerous. Yet our colonies in the Americas have become split into two different groups: Us being the loyalist and the rebels being patriots. I still stand for our mother country and you as patriots have been brainwashed by Thomas Paine. His pamphlet has made you unowrthy. He preaches all the wrong things. We shouldn’t be independent. We need to Britain, we have no chanc if we stand alone. Common Sense is a pamphlet. Full of unloyal words. We should end the book and ignore Thomas Paine. He is an example of unworthyness.
An Unfortunate Surrender Shenetha Sheperd An unfortunate thing has happened. Our London officials had come up with a brilliant plan to invade and capture the Hudson River Valley and it has backfired horribly. Oh, it was such a splendid plan, too. General John Burgoyne and General Howe and a smaller force commanded by Colonel St. Leger were supposed to come together to surround Hudson River Valley. Everything could have worked out perfectly and those traitorous patriots would have been forced out of the valley, leaving the magnificent Britain in charge of it. Things didn’t go as planned, though. General Howe strayed from the strategy and attacked Philadelphia instead, and though he managed to defeat the patriots in two battles, Burgoyne was left alone. He was headed north of Albany when he ran into General Benedict Arnold. Arnold, along with patriot minutemen, surrounded General Burgoyne. He was trapped and had no way to retreat or move forward. On the unfortunate day of October 17, 1777, General Burgoyne had no choice but to surrender his entire force at Saratoga.
This victory strongly motivated the rebel patriots to continue on their deluded cause to get their independence from Britain. No matter the lost, though, I will remain a loyalist and support the mother country as I should. I am saddened that this unfortunate surrender took place but we will have better days! I will continue to support Great Britain and wait for our ultimate victory over these wicked, ungrateful patriots.
Peace for All Shenetha Sheperd As it is known, the Treaty of Paris has made the Patriot Americans a free nation. Not only was Britain generous enough to let the ungrateful, rebellious patriots be independent, they were kind enough to offer the Americans the entire trans-Appalachian area too. What a magnanimous country our mother country is! Even after the patriot’s insubordination, Britain has overlooked that and has granted them freedom; Freedom that they in no way deserved. There is no denying that we made the right choice in remaining loyal, though. How do you justify a revolution against your mother country? How do you rationalize fighting against the one who did nothing but help you? There is no reasoning for the patriot’s behavior. They were unappreciative, greedy, and very lucky in this war.
However, although Britain has been through a lot, we will overcome our problems. We will gain our whole strength back and again take our place as the most powerful country in the world. This war may have halted us a bit, but it has not stopped us!
Miriam Alvarado
Shenetha Sheperd Jaquelynn Tirado
Cinthya Rodriguez
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