Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Setting of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence
You will not wonder at my being more warmly affected with affairs of America than you seem to be. I came over so early and and so riveted to it by my connections that I cannot help feeling for it as if it were my natale solum. The Ministry from the time of passing the declaratory act, on the repeal of the Stamp Act, seem to have used every opportunity of teizing and fretting the people here as if on purpose to draw them into rebellion or some violent Opposition to government, at a time when the inhabitants of Boston were every man quietly employed about their own private altairs. The wise members of your House of Commons, on the authority of ministerial scribbles, declare they are in a state of Open rebellion. On the strength of this they pass a set of laws which from their severity and injustice cannot be carried into execution but by a military force, which they have very wisely provided, being con scious that no people who had once tasted the sweets of freedom would ever submit to them except in the last extremity. They have now brought things to a crisis, and God only knows where it.
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