On this day 250 years ago at his headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, General George Washington issued this order:

As the Commander in Chief has been apprized of a design form’d for the observance of that ridiculous and childish custom of burning the Effigy of the pope He cannot help expressing his surprise that there should be Officers and Soldiers in this army so void of common sense, as not to see the impropriety of such a step at this Juncture; at a Time when we are solliciting, and have really obtain’d, the friendship and alliance of the people of Canada, whom we ought to consider as Brethren embarked in the same Cause. The defence of the general Liberty of America: At such a juncture, and in such Circumstances, to be insulting their Religion, is so monstrous, as not to be suffered or excused; indeed instead of offering the most remote insult, it is our duty to address public thanks to these our Brethren, as to them we are so much indebted for every late happy Success over the common Enemy in Canada.

Sources: https://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2007/11/george-washington-and-guy-fawkes-day/223915/; https://founders.archives.gov/?q=%225%20November%201775%22%20&s=1111311111&sa=&r=6&sr=

And on this day 250 years ago in Braintree, Massachusetts, Abigail Adams wrote to Mercy Otis Warren that

Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Man, can he be a patriot who by an openly vicious conduct is undermineing the very bonds of Society, corrupting the Morals of Youth, and by his bad example injuring that very Country he professess to patrionize more than he can possibly compensate by his intrepidity.

Source: “Abigail Adams to Mercy Otis Warren, 5 November 1775,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/04-01-02-0213. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Adams Family Correspondence, vol. 1, December 1761 – May 1776, ed. Lyman H. Butterfield. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1963, pp. 322–324.]