Memoir of the Life of Richard Henry Lee, Vol. 2 of 2 And His Correspondence With the Most Distinguished Men in America and Europe, Illustrative for Their Characters, and of the Events of the American Revolution (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Memoir of the Life of Richard Henry Lee, Vol. 2 of 2: And His Correspondence With the Most Distinguished Men in America and Europe, Illustrative for Their Characters, and of the Events of the American Revolution
I did not mean by the words, to get rid of importunity, to cast the smallest re?ection; indeed the hurry with which I am obliged to write the few private letters I attempt, will not allow me to consider the force and tendency of my words; nor should I have been surprised, if the fact had really been so, if I am to judge of their, I mean foreigners' applications to Congress, by those to myself for it is not one, nor twen ty explanations, that will satisfy the cravings of these peo ple's demands.
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