 The "Pennsylvania Gazette", the "Boston Evening Post", and the "Newport Mercury" all ran editorials railing against the Act, the "Post" suggesting it was but a prelude to an invasion by Catholic Canadians.The George Rex Flag was raised as a protest against the act and Catholicism on a liberty pole outside the New York Royal Exchange and from the Liberty Tree on Boston Common.The flag was adopted as the unofficial flag of the Province of New York during the war.